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In last weeks game the party Wizard was successfully attacked by a Mimic, and thus grappled by the Mimic's adhesive. The wizard has Shift (Su) from his conjuration school. So the question is would a wizard be able to shift/Dimension Door out of a Mimic's grapple? I'm curious how others would rule?

It seems normally a PC can DD out of a grapple by using the required action: standard/swift/command. But in this case the description states:

Opponents so grappled cannot get free while the mimic is alive without removing the adhesive first.

How do others read/rule this?

Last night our group had a minor difference of opinion about if a dazed creature could get an aoo.

The scenario: The wizard cast daze (0 level cantrip) on a large creature (Ogre I think) that had reach. The creature failed the save and thus is "Dazed" for one round. The rogue moved in for an attack - having to move through threatened space due to the 10' range of the large creature. Does the creature get an aoo on the rogue?

I understand from the core rulebook that a dazed creature cannot take actions. However, they can defend normally (so no sneak attack etc). Is an aoo an action, or a normal part of defending?

Please support answer with info from RAW as I seem to have found myself in a rather rules intensive group. Thank you in advance for any feedback.