Attack of Opportunity and standing up from Prone

[James_in_PDX]

Pathfinder book states “Standing up from a prone position requires a move action
and provokes attacks of opportunity.”

The question is, when this AOO happens is your AC as you are prone or when you are standing up?

This has been thrown around in our group a bit. So would my characters AC be 20 as standing or 16 as when he is prone?

James

[spalding]

AoO's happen before the action that provokes them so you would be prone for the AoO.

This is why you can't be tripped while getting up from prone -- you are already prone and can't fall further.

It also explains how an AoO could disrupt the spell. If the AoO happened after the spell the spell would have gone off and it couldn't be disrupted, with the AoO happening before the spell the damage can disrupt the caster and prevent the spell from being finished.

[Andrew Phillips]

Abraham spalding wrote:

AoO's happen before the action that provokes them so you would be prone for the AoO.

This is why you can't be tripped while getting up from prone -- you are already prone and can't fall further.

It also explains how an AoO could disrupt the spell. If the AoO happened after the spell the spell would have gone off and it couldn't be disrupted, with the AoO happening before the spell the damage can disrupt the caster and prevent the spell from being finished.

Wow, good answer. Nice and short and still hits next question the OP is likely to have.

[Abraham spalding]

Thanks I try but sometimes I'm too busy thinking and doing stuff to bother with actually putting down what I'm meaning to or fully explaining what is (to me) fairly obvious...

It's a character flaw, but hey I got an extra feat for it ;D

[Talynonyx]

That's why I always step back when playing a caster... better to take the AoO during movement than try to cast in their face and lose the spell to the AoO.