Paired Fortuitous Opportunists

[Torchlyte]

Imagine two identical rogues standing side by side. The rogues have the Opportunist rogue talent, Combat Reflexes, the Paired Opportunists teamwork feat, and Fortuitous weapon enchants on their longspears.

Now a lion charges the rogues head-on such that it ends up adjacent to both of the rogues. Assuming all attacks hit, how many attacks of opportunity are possible?

Here's what I have:

Each of the rogues gets two attacks from the lion's movement due to their Fortuitous weapons. Rogue A can use his Opportunist talent to get an additional attack because rogue B hit the lion. Similarly, rogue B gets his own additional attack through his Opportunist talent. Do any of these attacks allow further bonus attacks through the Paired Opportunists feat?

Paired Opportunists wrote:

This does not allow you to take more than one attack of opportunity against a creature for a given action.

What constitutes a "given action"? Does it have to be an action undertaken by the target? Consider that the Opportunist rogue talent fires off of your ally's action, not the opponent's. What about Fortuitous - does that also activate Paired Opportunists?

Suppose A1 and A2 refer to rogue A's first two attacks, with B1, B2, etc. being analogous for rogue B.

The most liberal interpretation I have is:

Lion moves, provoking A1, A2, B1, and B2 due to Fortuitous. A2 and B2 cause B3 and A3 respectively due to Paired Opportunists. Rogue B's hit permits A4 through A's Opportunist talent, which in turn allows B4 due to Paired Opportunists. Then Rogue A's hit permits B5 through B's Opportunist talent, which causes A5 due to Paired Opportunists.

So, 10 attacks at the most... but it could be as few as 6 if Paired Opportunists is interpreted to not allow any additional attacks in this scenario.

What sayeth thee, Rules forum? How many attacks, and why?

[Calth]

You would get eight attacks from the pair.

The first four are from the movement provoking with the fortuitous weapon, as stated. These attacks do not trigger Paired Opportunists, as you are already making an AoO in response to the trigger (the lions movement). Paired Opportunist only comes into effect when one character is granted an AoO and not the other, for example if the charge path provoked from one rogue but not the other, both would still get AoOs with Paired Oppotunist.

Opportunist then triggers for each rogue, making six attacks so far.

Opportunist does trigger Paired Opportunist as these are new triggers/actions separate from the lions movement. So rogue A would get an AoO from Rogue B's Opportunist attack and vice versa.

[kestral287]

Paired Opportunists would definitely trigger off the Rogue's Opportunist talent. I'm less sure about the interaction from the movement provoking though.