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How often do you provoke an AoO on purpose?
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<blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 3399477" data-attributes="member: 3424"><p>Only on the rare, rare occasions when it is tactically sound to do so.</p><p></p><p>One came up in a recent game, and ironically enough, it arose because someone provoked an AOO from my character. A bandit charged past me to attack our party conjurer, and since I was armed with a morning star, I didn't think I would be able to stop him with a simple melee attack. So, I decided to disarm him with my AOO instead. Since I didn't have Improved Disarm, I provoked an AOO from him, but I figured he was unlikely to be able to hit me through my full plate armor (I was right). I won the opposed attack roll, and the bandit ended up screeching to a halt next to the conjurer empty-handed.</p><p></p><p>Interestingly enough, that adventure also featured a Cleave on an AOO. We made it into the bandit stronghold and managed to seriously injure the bandit leader, who decided to retreat. Our duskblade charged up his reach weapon with <em>blade of blood</em> and moved to attack the bandit leader, but missed. Another bandit, who was loyal to the leader and wanted to cover his escape, moved to attack the duskblade and provoked an AOO from him. The duskblade hit and the <em>blade of blood</em> discharged, dealing enough damage to drop the poor bandit, and leaving his leader vulnerable to the duskblade's Cleave attempt. Fortunately for the leader, the duskblade missed again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FireLance, post: 3399477, member: 3424"] Only on the rare, rare occasions when it is tactically sound to do so. One came up in a recent game, and ironically enough, it arose because someone provoked an AOO from my character. A bandit charged past me to attack our party conjurer, and since I was armed with a morning star, I didn't think I would be able to stop him with a simple melee attack. So, I decided to disarm him with my AOO instead. Since I didn't have Improved Disarm, I provoked an AOO from him, but I figured he was unlikely to be able to hit me through my full plate armor (I was right). I won the opposed attack roll, and the bandit ended up screeching to a halt next to the conjurer empty-handed. Interestingly enough, that adventure also featured a Cleave on an AOO. We made it into the bandit stronghold and managed to seriously injure the bandit leader, who decided to retreat. Our duskblade charged up his reach weapon with [I]blade of blood[/I] and moved to attack the bandit leader, but missed. Another bandit, who was loyal to the leader and wanted to cover his escape, moved to attack the duskblade and provoked an AOO from him. The duskblade hit and the [I]blade of blood[/I] discharged, dealing enough damage to drop the poor bandit, and leaving his leader vulnerable to the duskblade's Cleave attempt. Fortunately for the leader, the duskblade missed again. [/QUOTE]
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