AOOs against those standing from prone


Rules Questions


Just got done running a game, and I think I may have misjudged it at the time, but it still made sense, so I ran with it. Willing to change it for the future though.

When a person is standing from the prone position, and they trigger an AOO from an adjacent enemy, is the -4 prone penalty still applied to their AC? Or are they considered to be fully standing and the -4 from prone is no longer applied to their AC?


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The -4 penalty is still applied, the AoO takes place before the movement is completed. This is why you can't trip-lock someone using an AoO. They are already prone, so you can't use your AoO to trip them again, and prevent them from standing.


No, they are still prone when the AoO, that's why they can't be chain tripped because they aren't standing yet to be tripped again.


Ok. Great. I actually called it right (if unknowingly and inadvertently). Thanks everyone.


Set the redied action to "after XX has stood up, I trip them again."


Blindmage wrote:
Set the redied action to "after XX has stood up, I trip them again."

Yeah, that's a readied action not an AoO. You have to spend a standard action to set up a readied action.

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