Got your Back

[gamecat]

Nxwtypx cringed as he felt himself being sucked into nothing. Flipping through his knowledge of spellcraft, he realized something.

"AVASCULATE. ."

Making it was personal, Nxwtypx focused his energies, and killed the offending spellcaster with a well placed eldritch blast. The knight he was fighting hand-to-hand (okay, mindblade-to-greatsword) saw this opening, and carved a big slice out of Nxwtypx's torso. His legs buckled and he fell to the floor, bleeding and in shock, only to see one of Starlight's spiked chains sail over his form and slice up his former melee opponent.

"I very well could die here. So this is it..." was his last thought.

His last thought at least before waking up with Starlight hunched over him, humming a tune about singing satellites, her verbalization for a Cure Light Wounds spell.

"I got your back, hun, but you should be a lot more careful." she said, placing a kiss on his forehead.

Got your back [Fighter]
You are a keen opportunist, making opportunity of the opportunism of others.
Prerequisites: Base Attack Bonus +4, Combat Reflexes.
Benefit: Whenever an opponent you threaten makes an attack of opportunity, you may make one against that opponent immediately after theirs is resolved.

Questions, comments, death threats?

I like it the way it is, but maybe limiting this feat to one usage a round would be prudent.

 

[Knightfall]

Got your back [Fighter]
You are a keen opportunist, making opportunity of the opportunism of others.
Prerequisites: Base Attack Bonus +4, Combat Reflexes.
Benefit: Whenever an opponent you threaten makes an attack of opportunity, you may make one against that opponent immediately after theirs is resolved.

Questions, comments, death threats?

I like it the way it is, but maybe limiting this feat to one usage a round would be prudent.

Hmm, I think it should be simply be limited to the number of AoO the character has, otherwise why have Combat Reflexes as a prerequisite? I would definitely say you can only use against one opponent per round, but could use it multiple times, with Combat Reflexes, against multiple opponents that each make an AoO.

Just my opinion,

KF72

 

[gamecat]

Without a doubt a usage of Got Your Back expends an attack of opportunity, hence the combat reflexes prerequisite.

 

[DarkKestral]

This is like Robilar's Gambit... and Robilar's can potentially mean a single turn combat, if both enemies are equipped with it. I'd say you need to limit it to a once-per-turn restriction or something similar.

AoO, RG/GYB (PC's) AoO, RG/GYB (opponent's), RG/GYB (PC's), RG/GYB (opp.)... Repeat till one is dead.

 

[gamecat]

I JUST READ ROBILAR'S GAMBIT LIKE 5 MINUTES AGO BEFORE READING YOUR POST!

Wow... that's an intriguing loop. Perhaps we could rule that GYB doesn't respond to AoO's taken as a result of Robilar's gambit.

Or perhaps you can only GYB attack a given oopponent once a round?

 

[Michael Silverbane]

I'd be tempted to change the text to something like...

Whenever an opponent you threaten makes an attack of opportunity against one of your allies (not including yourself), you gain an attack of opportunity against that opponent.

Your attack of opportunity would, then, interrupt their attack of opportunity, but it only works when you're near one of your buddies... It'd put an end to the Robilar's Gambit loop pretty effectively, unless multiple adjacent people had both feats... Also, I feel that it makes the mechanics of your feat better fit the flavor of its name.

Later
silver

 

[Knightfall]

Without a doubt a usage of Got Your Back expends an attack of opportunity, hence the combat reflexes prerequisite.

I'd be tempted to change the text to something like...

Whenever an opponent you threaten makes an attack of opportunity against one of your allies (not including yourself), you gain an attack of opportunity against that opponent.

Your attack of opportunity would, then, interrupt their attack of opportunity, but it only works when you're near one of your buddies... It'd put an end to the Robilar's Gambit loop pretty effectively, unless multiple adjacent people had both feats... Also, I feel that it makes the mechanics of your feat better fit the flavor of its name.

Okay then, how about this...

Got your Back [General] (Finished Version)
You are a keen opportunist, making opportunity of the opportunism of others.
Prerequisites: Base Attack Bonus +4, Combat Reflexes.
Benefit: Whenever an opponent that you threaten attempts an attack of opportunity against one of your allies, you may immediately make an attack of opportunity against that opponent. If your attack of opportunity would hit your opponent, you have the option of inflicting normal damage against the opponent or causing no damage but instead interrupting their attack of opportunity and preventing them from making their attack of opportunity against your ally.
Special: A fighter may select Got you Back as one of his fighter bonus feats (see page 38, PHB v.3.5).

 

[maggot]

With combat reflexes, you can make attacks of opportunity while flat-footed. Since combat reflexes is a prerequisite, you might want to just remove that restriction.

 

[Knightfall]

With combat reflexes, you can make attacks of opportunity while flat-footed. Since combat reflexes is a prerequisite, you might want to just remove that restriction.

Ah yes, forgot that. Thank you.

 

[Hawken]

Got your Back [General]
You are a keen opportunist, making opportunity of the opportunism of others.
Prerequisites: Base Attack Bonus +4, Combat Reflexes.
Benefit: Whenever an opponent, you threaten, attempts an attack of opportunity against one of your allies, you may immediately make an attack of opportunity against that opponent. If your attack of opportunity is successful then the targeted opponent is unable to make their attack of opportunity.
The targeted opponent still retains his attack of opportunity, and may use it later in the round. You cannot use this feat if you have used all your attack of opportunities available to you.
Special: A fighter may select Got you Back as one of his fighter bonus feats (see page 38, PHB v.3.5).

Most of that is good, but for the Benefit part, I would suggest something like:
Benefit: Whenever an opponent that you threaten attempts an attack of opportunity against one of your allies, you may immediately make an attack of opportunity against that opponent. If your attack of opportunity would hit your opponent, you have the option of inflicting normal damage against the opponent or causing no damage but instead interrupting their attack of opportunity and preventing them from making their attack of opportunity against your ally.

Your feat, as is, does not prevent the enemy's AoO against your ally, but merely delays it until after your own AoO--in which case, what is the point of this feat? If they retain the AoO and can take it later, they're going to take it before they get hit again. Your feat is not so much a "Got Your Back" feat but an "If He Tries To Get You, I'll Try To Get Him" feat. Got Your Back implies protection or prevention of some sort, not an escalating cycle of AoO paybacks.