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<blockquote data-quote="Captain Trek" data-source="post: 5870997" data-attributes="member: 6689841">Thankyou very much, Storm. And yes, we already figured that one would only get the Brace bonus on the readied attack and not on the subsequent AOO. Our reasoning was indeed that the &quot;Brace&quot; quality only ever applies to an attack made using Readied action, and not to any other attacks the weapon might make (even if you happened to somehow get an AOO against someone while continuing to hold your Readied action).&nbsp;Also, Tovec, I think you may be overthinking things. It was option D that we had in mind. As I said, we figured the enemy would charge into the weapon's 10 foot reach, get hit by the Readied attack once in that square, and then get hit by a subsequent AOO as he left that square (thus leaving a threatened area) in order to complete the charge. That's it.&nbsp;This is somewhat similar to a situation we encountered a while before this in 3.5 where the DM was considering have a monster blow right past a PC who was ready with an attack (though with a normal weapon rather than a Reach one, mind you) in a 10-foot-wide corridor... That was until we reminded her that the PC would get both his Readied attack AND an AOO on the monster in that case... And yes, I know that seems like it should have been obvious to the DM... That sort of thing is why we have a different DM for the current Pathfinder game. XD</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Captain Trek, post: 5870997, member: 6689841"] Thankyou very much, Storm. And yes, we already figured that one would only get the Brace bonus on the readied attack and not on the subsequent AOO. Our reasoning was indeed that the "Brace" quality only ever applies to an attack made using Readied action, and not to any other attacks the weapon might make (even if you happened to somehow get an AOO against someone while continuing to hold your Readied action). Also, Tovec, I think you may be overthinking things. It was option D that we had in mind. As I said, we figured the enemy would charge into the weapon's 10 foot reach, get hit by the Readied attack once in that square, and then get hit by a subsequent AOO as he left that square (thus leaving a threatened area) in order to complete the charge. That's it. This is somewhat similar to a situation we encountered a while before this in 3.5 where the DM was considering have a monster blow right past a PC who was ready with an attack (though with a normal weapon rather than a Reach one, mind you) in a 10-foot-wide corridor... That was until we reminded her that the PC would get both his Readied attack AND an AOO on the monster in that case... And yes, I know that seems like it should have been obvious to the DM... That sort of thing is why we have a different DM for the current Pathfinder game. XD [/QUOTE]

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