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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Harzel" data-source="post: 7177227" data-attributes="member: 6857506">I'm not sure what you mean by 'before' - you mean 'outside of'?  In any case, I don't think this would affect my answer.  Where you blinked out from doesn't matter.  When you blink in within melee range (for you), you are 'entering their reach' unless for some very unusual reason your reach is greater than theirs.When you mention being 'behind' them, are you implying that you are using the optional facing rules?  If you are not using the optional facing rules, then 'behind' is meaningless and YES, they get the AoO.  If you are using the optional facing rules, then I would probably rule that they do not get the AoO because they 'can normally target only creatures in their front and side arcs'.  (But this has nothing to do with the fact that you blinked in; the same would apply if you just moved into their rear arc normally, as long as you did not move through one of their side arcs to get there.)  The facing rules do also say that a creature can change its facing "as a reaction to another creature's move", but that sounds to me like it uses their reaction and so would preclude an AoO even though they might be facing you as a result.But as always, I may have overlooked something.</blockquote>