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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 2340870" data-attributes="member: 19675">Back to the other fork of this thread...the AoO on the MI images.Personally, I would allow the AoOs (both normal and those from CR) to work because it:1) Maintains Internal Consistency: If MM can target an MI based on the caster's perception, then the MI should trigger the same kind of perception on the part of the guy with Combat Reflexes.  CR lets a character attack beings that leave or take actions within its threatened area- if a MI image moving into a threatened image doesn't make the CR PC think he's being "attacked," then he's obviously determinining the images are not real...even without making that MI random target roll.Besides, where is the logic in treating an AoO differently from any other melee attack?  Its not like the attacker has any special bonuses or hinderances to his perceptions when doing an AoO that don't exist with a normal attack.2) It costs the character with CR his extra AoO's.  Imagine a mage with MI and a touch spell.  He and his images provoke AoOs from the guy with CR (he was already within the threatened area when he started casting)...the images take the hits (for sake of argument, the guy with CR was fooled), go poof, and the mage delivers his touch spell.If the AoOs don't work against the MIs, then when the guy CR will get to take AoOs against the Mage only.  But this ignores MI's extant mechanism within its description- the chance to miss the mage protected by MI.  I mean, he only gets to AoO against the Mage (because he can't AoO an image) but has a chance to miss with his because he might erroneously attack the images he can't attack? That doesn't make sense.</blockquote>

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