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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kwyn" data-source="post: 2928684" data-attributes="member: 2362">GreetingsI'm trying to figure out exactly how the trip mechanic works, particularly in conjunction with attacks of opportunity and the improved trip feat.  Let me lay this out and then I would love some comments.Ok.  So...an opponent moves into a threatened square and takes an action that provokes an attack of opportunity.  The defender makes a successful trip attack, knocking the opponent prone.  When the opponent takes his move equivalent action to stand up from prone, that provokes another attack of opportunity (if the defender has enough AOO's remaining).  If the defender makes another trip attack as his AOO, I had thought that it would result in the opponent finding themselves prone once again.Then I read this in the "rules of the game" from Skip<a href="http://wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/rg/20041026a" target="_blank">http://wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/rg/20041026a</a>This made me believe that when an opponent attempts to stand up, even though you might make another successful trip attack that the AAO actually takes place before he even completes his stand.  It would appear that even after you make the AAO trip, the opponent would still be allowed to finish his stand.Am I reading too much into this?I was thinking that provided enough AOO's and successful trips you could theoretically keep an opponent down indefinitely as every time he tried to stand he'd be tripped again due to provoking an AOO from standing up.</blockquote>

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