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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spatzimaus" data-source="post: 879115" data-attributes="member: 3051">The "multiple AoOs against a target" thing does worry me.  Besides the Recursive AoO Chain effect, it's a bit unbalancing in general since it bypasses the whole BAB issue.What I mean is, if I'm a first-level Fighter with an 18 DEX and Combat Reflexes, I get one normal attack per round, same as anyone else.  When confronted with someone who does a lot of things provoking an AoO (say, running in circles around me at a distance of 5'), the Fighter without Combat Reflexes gets double his normal damage, while I get 6 times the normal.  I'm doing 5 times as much damage on the target's turn as I am on my own.The person's normal attack progressions become almost meaningless in this situation.  Take the guy with the Spiked Chain; by standing in the middle of the battlefield, he's practically guaranteed to get lots of AoOs, even at low level.Now, I understand why the ability to do multiple AoOs on one target is a good thing.    If you don't give this capability, people will do a meaningless action (like move through a threatened square) to draw the AoO that could have disrupted a save-or-die spell.  You could always choose not to take that first AoO, but that's not really a realistic thing.That's why IMC we made a custom Feat, "Improved Combat Reflexes" (no relation to the splatbook feat) that, among other things, allowed the person to take additional AoOs on a single target at their Full Attack progression.  That is, if I'm a 12th-level Fighter, I can take no more than 3 AoOs on a single target; the first is at my full attack bonus, the second at -5, the third at -10.  After all, when AoOing a guy you shouldn't be able to get in more attacks than you would in a Full Attack action.Each of these AoOs still counts against your Combat Reflexes total, so if you think other opponents are going to be drawing AoOs you should choose to hold off on taking all of them on the first guy you see.Personally, I'd rather see it done this way as the general rule.  IMC we'll probably use 3.5E and just house-rule it to this (removing the Feat).</blockquote>

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