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Fending off Grapples while Unarmed
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<blockquote data-quote="Malin Genie" data-source="post: 63638" data-attributes="member: 1058"><p>In our last gaming session, a group of ruffians attacked our party. One of them attempted to grapple the bow-wielding party cleric, another disarmed and a third attempted to grapple the (now-unarmed) paladin.</p><p></p><p>In each case, as I understand the rules, the character <em>could</em> have taken an (unarmed) AoO to try to fend off the grapple, but that AoO would itself provoke an AoO against them.</p><p></p><p>This AoO could presumably be a grapple attempt, against which the character would <em>not</em> get an AoO, because they have already used it.</p><p></p><p>If the AoO-in-response-to-AoO grapple fails, then the AoO would be resolved, and if <em>it</em> failed, the original grapple attempt would be resolved.</p><p></p><p>If the AoO-in-response-to-AoO succeeds, then the character is grappled ... do the original punch-AoO-in-response-to-grapple and grapple attacks then proceed, or not ??</p><p></p><p>In the end, we just decided to heck with the Sage, unarmed characters don't threaten an area <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Malin Genie, post: 63638, member: 1058"] In our last gaming session, a group of ruffians attacked our party. One of them attempted to grapple the bow-wielding party cleric, another disarmed and a third attempted to grapple the (now-unarmed) paladin. In each case, as I understand the rules, the character [i]could[/i] have taken an (unarmed) AoO to try to fend off the grapple, but that AoO would itself provoke an AoO against them. This AoO could presumably be a grapple attempt, against which the character would [i]not[/i] get an AoO, because they have already used it. If the AoO-in-response-to-AoO grapple fails, then the AoO would be resolved, and if [i]it[/i] failed, the original grapple attempt would be resolved. If the AoO-in-response-to-AoO succeeds, then the character is grappled ... do the original punch-AoO-in-response-to-grapple and grapple attacks then proceed, or not ?? In the end, we just decided to heck with the Sage, unarmed characters don't threaten an area :) [/QUOTE]
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