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On Friday we had a discussion about ranged touch spells in combat. Our Spellcaster is adjacent to the enemy and wants to cast a ranged touch spell against that enemy. No he concentrates to avoid the AOO. Now the question: The act of concentration prevent the AOO because of casting a spell, BUT what about the spell being a ranged attack which would also provoke. Does the enemy get an AOO because the spellcaster makes a ranged attack although he is in melee?

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On Friday we had a discussion about ranged touch spells in combat. Our Spellcaster is adjacent to the enemy and wants to cast a ranged touch spell against that enemy. No he concentrates to avoid the AOO. Now the question: The act of concentration prevent the AOO because of casting a spell, BUT what about the spell being a ranged attack which would also provoke. Does the enemy get an AOO because the spellcaster makes a ranged attack although he is in melee?
My opinion is no, as the caster did not take the ranged attack action (which is what provokes), they took the cast a spell action. Since they prevented the AoO for casting the spell, no AoO is granted.

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Beastman wrote:On Friday we had a discussion about ranged touch spells in combat. Our Spellcaster is adjacent to the enemy and wants to cast a ranged touch spell against that enemy. No he concentrates to avoid the AOO. Now the question: The act of concentration prevent the AOO because of casting a spell, BUT what about the spell being a ranged attack which would also provoke. Does the enemy get an AOO because the spellcaster makes a ranged attack although he is in melee?My opinion is no, as the caster did not take the ranged attack action (which is what provokes), they took the cast a spell action. Since they prevented the AoO for casting the spell, no AoO is granted.
*just playing devil's advocate here*
Some argue that the ranged attack, either from the spell or a warlock's blast (even though you have to make a concentration/spellcraft check to avoid an aoo) still provokes an aoo from the "ranged" portion. I'm one who agrees with Russ on this one though, and no I don't play a warlock, but this very discussion came up in the last gaming session when the warlock made a spellcraft check to avoid the aoo and another player said the aoo should have happened.