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<blockquote data-quote="IanB" data-source="post: 3648423" data-attributes="member: 1473">Attacks of opportunity do not necessarily appear to be actions by my reading. They are melee attacks, but making a melee attack does not by necessity involve taking the Attack standard action. Nowhere are they specifically defined as actions. This does open a bit of a can of worms with 'can you take an AOO when stunned?' or under other restrictive conditions. One possible solution to that is in the requirement that you threaten a creature in order to take an attack of opportunity against it. Does a stunned creature (it will usually be one with natural weapons since manufactured weapons would be dropped) threaten squares within its reach? The wording is basically &quot;you threaten squares into which you can attack&quot;. On its turn, a stunned creature certainly can't attack; is that enough to declare that it does not threaten squares it can reach?If so, then you can reconcile everything and stlil allow AOOs in the surprise round (which I intend to continue doing, RAW or not, since it matches what I assume is the intent of combat reflexes in the first place.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="IanB, post: 3648423, member: 1473"] Attacks of opportunity do not necessarily appear to be actions by my reading. They are melee attacks, but making a melee attack does not by necessity involve taking the Attack standard action. Nowhere are they specifically defined as actions. This does open a bit of a can of worms with 'can you take an AOO when stunned?' or under other restrictive conditions. One possible solution to that is in the requirement that you threaten a creature in order to take an attack of opportunity against it. Does a stunned creature (it will usually be one with natural weapons since manufactured weapons would be dropped) threaten squares within its reach? The wording is basically "you threaten squares into which you can attack". On its turn, a stunned creature certainly can't attack; is that enough to declare that it does not threaten squares it can reach? If so, then you can reconcile everything and stlil allow AOOs in the surprise round (which I intend to continue doing, RAW or not, since it matches what I assume is the intent of combat reflexes in the first place.) [/QUOTE]

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