Hold the Line feat with a Trident or Spear

[Kai Lord]

Can you use the attack of opportunity against a charge attack given by the Hold the Line feat to Set Against Charge with a trident or spear?

 

[Darklone]

Weapons Readied against a Charge: Spears, tridents, and certain other piercing weapons deal double damage when readied (set) and used against a charging character.

Yes.

 

[Altamont Ravenard]

Can you really use your attack of opportunity to ready an action? There's something I'm not getting here...

AR

 

[RigaMortus]

No you can't. You can only Ready Standard Actions. An AoO is NOT a Standard Action. It is defined as "a single melee attack". Otherwise you could cast spells as an AoO and do whole slew of other things as well...

 

[sledged]

Can you use the attack of opportunity against a charge attack given by the Hold the Line feat to Set Against Charge with a trident or spear?

As I read the Readying description, no, but you get both the AoO and the readied attack against the charge. Though I'm not sure which occurs first.

 

[Ridley's Cohort]

The answer is no. But it is really more of six of one, half dozen of the other than a net detriment.

The main advantage of readying against the charge is the double damage. If you are giving up an AoO to get double damage on a single later attack, that is rarely to your net benefit except in corner cases.

 

[Ridley's Cohort]

As I read the Readying description, no, but you get both the AoO and the readied attack against the charge. Though I'm not sure which occurs first.

I would allow the character being charged to choose. Both the AoO and the Ready action "interrupt" the attacker; there is no right or wrong answer on which counterattack occurs first.

 

[RigaMortus]

I would allow the character being charged to choose. Both the AoO and the Ready action "interrupt" the attacker; there is no right or wrong answer on which counterattack occurs first.

Yeah, but if you Ready an action, and Ready your Spear against a charge, then you use Hold the Line... When the Ready goes off, you hit them and stop them (via Hold the Line) before they get a chance to provoke the AoO, because they get stopped before they pass through your threat range.

 

[Liquidsabre]

Set against a charge with a readied action: 1 Attack (double damage, when foe first enters a square they threaten)

Hold the Line: 1st AoO (which goes off just after your readied action once your foe has entered the space where you threaten)

If using a Reach Weapon: 2nd AoO (when foe moves through threatened square to complete their charge)

 

[Kai Lord]

Hold the Line: 1st AoO (which goes off just after your readied action once your foe has entered the space where you threaten)

If using a Reach Weapon: 2nd AoO (when foe moves through threatened square to complete their charge)

I'm pretty sure you're never allowed more than one AoO against a single opponent in a round.