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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Thanee" data-source="post: 1516631" data-attributes="member: 478">Erm, that's not really how AoO are supposed to work.The reason why you provoke an AoO is not, that you do something obvious, like manifesting/spellcasting, it's completely irrelevant, if that can be detected or not.The reason for an AoO is, that you stop defending yourself (since you have to concentrate), something which is generally assumed to happen automatically, and once you let your guard down, your opponent can get more attacks in... hence the AoO.That's really just a sidenote, tho.Nice term. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Same for spellcasting... just that they are limited to spells with no somatics and they need to go fishing for material components, which wastes valuable actions. With pinning, even verbal components can be prevented.ByeThanee</blockquote>