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If you are slowed or staggered, would you be able to take attacks of opportunity?
Staggared
Staggered: A staggered creature may take a single move action or standard action each round (but not both, nor can he take full-round actions). A staggered creature can still take free, swift and immediate actions. A creature with nonlethal damage exactly equal to its current hit points gains the staggered condition.
attacks of opportunity
Attacks of Opportunity
Sometimes a combatant in a melee lets her guard down or takes a reckless action. In this case, combatants near her can take advantage of her lapse in defense to attack her for free. These free attacks are called attacks of opportunity.
I suppose since the attack is "free", and when staggared you would be able to take these attacks. I could go either way on this, and I wonder if someone knows the actual rule.
If you are slowed or staggered, would you be able to take attacks of opportunity?
Staggered prohibits you from taking
A) both a standard AND a move actionand
B) a full-round action
each turn.
An attack of opportunity is neither of those, so it is not prohibited by the staggered condition.
-edit- my A-B thing isn't very clear. What I mean is you cannot do A and you also cannot do B. (You also can't do both A and B but that's generally the case anyway)
I agree with Grick, the staggered condition doesn't prevent AoO.
I tend to agree, but for different reason which seems like it was fluff text the way it is worded. Staggared allows you a single move or standard only, including free, swift, and immediate actions. AoO is a free action, so is allowed. I say worded as fluff because it says "defense to attack her for free" instead of "defense to attack her as a free action".
I am not sure that AoOs count as 'actions', free or otherwise, at all on the takers part actually.
Character that is cowering, dazed, stunned or otherwise prevented from taking actions would be still capable of making attacks of opportunity if they weren't 'actions'. Because of that I think that AoO is a free action that specifically may be taken outside of one's turn when triggered by specific circumstances.
makes sense