Summon monster & provoking AoO's

[Goblyn]

I recently had a discussion with Hypersmurf about the charge maneuvre and when a character who chooses to do so is considered charging. The issue that apparently is not supposed to exist with charge explicitly does for Summon Monster spells.

One who casts summon monster is casting a spell and thus provokes an AoO.

What if an armed opponent approaches the caster later in the round? The caster is still considered casting, so does he provoke an AoO from this newly-arrived opponent?

 

[Hypersmurf]

No:
When you begin a spell that takes 1 round or longer to cast, you must continue the invocations, gestures, and concentration from one round to just before your turn in the next round (at least). If you lose concentration after starting the spell and before it is complete, you lose the spell.

You only provoke attacks of opportunity when you begin casting a spell, even though you might continue casting for at least one full round. While casting a spell, you don't threaten any squares around you.

-Hyp.

 

[Goblyn]

No:
When you begin a spell that takes 1 round or longer to cast, you must continue the invocations, gestures, and concentration from one round to just before your turn in the next round (at least). If you lose concentration after starting the spell and before it is complete, you lose the spell.

You only provoke attacks of opportunity when you begin casting a spell, even though you might continue casting for at least one full round. While casting a spell, you don't threaten any squares around you.

-Hyp.

Thank you. It almost seemed as if summoners had even more to worry about. It would have been nice to have a mention or a reference about this under attacks of opportunity-cast a spell. Oh, well. Looks like I simply need to be more thorough on my checking of this stuff.

 

[frankthedm]

They SHOULD be drawing a AoO IMHO, but the system for AoOs ignores extended actions. A spell with a casting time of a round or more should draw AoOs when started, each round it continues and right before completed, with the option to abort the spell and 'put your guard up' to avoid that AoO.