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A player of mine suggested that an AoO, being a "single melee attack" is classified as a standard action, and as such can be replaced with any move action. So instead of taking the AoO he could instead move away for the opponent that was trying to grapple him, and effectively move out of range. Actually.. he was playing a game of "knivsies" and really wanted to pick up coins from the table before the opponent grappled him. Here is his argument: The rules on the pathfinder srd (http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/combat.html) pretty clearly state that: 1. “An attack of opportunity is a single melee attack” quoted from the Paizo URL listed above 2. A melee attack is a standard action (from Table: Actions in Combat at the same URL) 3. Under Action Types, the rules specifically state that “You can always take a move action in place of a standard action” (from the same URL) Any thoughts on this ? |