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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joshua Randall" data-source="post: 2811096" data-attributes="member: 7737">flat-footed in the SRDUsing the search feature on a .pdf of the SRD, I found the following relevant references to flat-footed:BalanceBeing Attacked while Balancing: You are considered flat-footed while balancing, since you can’t move to avoid a blow, and thus you lose your Dexterity bonus to AC (if any). If you have 5 or more ranks in Balance, you aren’t considered flat-footed while balancing.COMBAT REFLEXES [GENERAL]Benefit: You may make a number of additional attacks of opportunity equal to your Dexterity bonus. With this feat, you may also make attacks of opportunity while flat-footed.Normal: A character without this feat can make only one attack of opportunity per round and can’t make attacks of opportunity while flat-footed.HOW COMBAT WORKSCombat is cyclical; everybody acts in turn in a regular cycle of rounds. Combat follows this sequence:1. Each combatant starts out flat-footed. Once a combatant acts, he or she is no longer flat-footed.Flat-Footed: At the start of a battle, before you have had a chance to act (specifically, before your first regular turn in the initiative order), you are flat-footed. You can’t use your Dexterity bonus to AC (if any) while flat-footed. Barbarians and rogues have the uncanny dodge extraordinary ability, which allows them to avoid losing their Dexterity bonus to AC due to being flat-footed.A flat-footed character can’t make attacks of opportunity.SURPRISEWhen a combat starts, if you are not aware of your opponents and they are aware of you, you’re surprised.[...]Unaware Combatants: Combatants who are unaware at the start of battle don’t get to act in the surprise round. Unaware combatants are flat-footed because they have not acted yet, so they lose any Dexterity bonus to AC.GLOSSARYFlat-Footed: A character who has not yet acted during a combat is flat-footed, not yet reacting normally to the situation. A flat-footed character loses his Dexterity bonus to AC (if any) and cannot make attacks of opportunity.AIMING A SPELLSome spells restrict you to willing targets only. Declaring yourself as a willing target is something that can be done at any time (even if you’re flat-footed or it isn’t your turn).Foresight [the spell]... You are never surprised or flat-footed. ...</blockquote>

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