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I am usually a DM but I have been a player a few times. One of the times I was a player I made a swashbuckler/fighter with 10 strength. I did things to overcome my self inflicted handicap. One thing I did was I would buy glass bottles of wine and crush them up into a powder after drinking it. Then during combat I would throw crushed glass in my opponents eyes. The first time I did this the DM had no idea how to react. I said that if it was me I would be so freaked out I may try to rub my eyes, rubbing the crushed glass deeper into my eyes. I basically created instant, permanent blindness, I did many things like this. One of the more infamous was a bag of fecal matter shoved into the mouth for instant nauseated.

The funny story I have happened a bit later in the game. I was without my weapons, I had an oil lantern. I get attacked by an assassin, he missed his initial attack and we roll initiative. I go first and I have improved grapple and run forward and grapple him. Next round I maintain control and ask if I can pour the oil from my lamp on him. The DM gives me an very high roll I need to roll to not get oil on my self. I roll a 20, I say I am dumping the oil on his crotch. The next round I maintain control in the grapple and say I am going to set fire to the oil, I have to roll again and get a 20. So in 3 rounds I set my attackers dick on fire. Safe to say I had the table laughing and my DM face palming as his assassin ran away screaming smacking his dick to put it out.

I love house rules, and I love play testing new ideas. I always suggest to people looking to get into game design is to change the rules of a simple game and see how it changes the overall game. It’s a great exercise and it is a lot of fun.
So recently I changed a pretty big rule in pathfinder, I changed how attack of opportunity works. As it stands right now the rule is you may make a single attack once per round at your highest attack bonus against a foe in your threatened square when they provoke it. One of my players asked how come they can only attack, I was only left with one answer, because the rules said so. So after talking it over we decided to try and change the rule, here is how the rule read for our play test
“A player may make an Action of Opportunity (AoO) if a person within a threatened square provokes one, only 1 of AoO may normally be taken a round”

We had to change how certain actions worked but that was it. This meant a person got a single standard or move action when a person provoked one. So what happened was people would get up close, fight and when someone did something that provoked an AoO they got to do more actions. People would use it to grapple, use it to use special attacks. Other times people would use their AoO to follow people as they tried to run away. We found that it lead to a lot of chain events.

For example in one fight our wizard was attacked by a bandit. The wizard used their move action to run away and then cast a spell as the bandit had a weapon with reach and would hit them if they stayed close and cast a spell and the wizard was not comfortable eating the attacking or casting defensively. The wizard moved and provoked an AoO so the bandit followed him instead of attacking him. The wizard was able to get behind friendlies but he brought a friend over. This caused the bandit to run through and out of the fighter’s threat square who used his AoO to grapple the bandit as he ran by, this caused the fighter to provoke an AoO. The bandit had combat reflexes which meant he got more AoO per round. The bandit used this opportunity to use improve dirty trick on the fighter and blinded him. The now blinded fighter failed his grapple and the wizard and bandit moved right along next to the friendly ranger.

This was just one example of these chain events, it seems like it could get complicated kind of quickly but we had a blast with it. We noticed people would use their AoO in different ways, and we are sure we did not find all the strange ways the game could change with this. We did notice spell casters using a lot more spells but also taking a lot more damage. So I put this house rule change out there. What do you think of this house rule change? What changes could you see happen as a result of this rule change?

This is hilarious, I do not care if it follows the rules exactly, if you brought this my table I would accept it. I am just imagining a person jumping on a wizards back and yelling piggy back. Good on you mate, you are doing great work!