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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 1136429" data-attributes="member: 5834">reI like the ruling that invisible attackers don't provoke AOO's. I don't however like this ruling and don't intend to use it.Flanking attackers get the bonus not because the defender is unaware of the  attackers, but because a defender can't defend all sides. After 1 round, the defender would be trying to defend equally against both, the round after the invisible attacker hit him. Now, that 1 round isn't all that important to me in the course of a combat. I would not bother to note that on round 1 the defender might not be flanked because he is unaware of the attacker. I would just assume that the invisible attacker let him know either on the partial surprise round the attacker would most likely receive due to being invisible or the defender heard the invisible attacker.Either way, it is most likely that the invisible attacker struck first because of surprise alerting the defender to his presence or the defender heard the invisible attacker making him aware that he is now being flanked.Bad Sage ruling IMO.</blockquote>