Just something that occurred to me. What would the ramifications of classifing an Attack of Opportunity as an Immediate Action be? Something along the lines of:
Making an Attack of Opportunity: An attack of opportunity is a single melee attack, and is an Immediate Action. You don't have to make an attack of opportunity if you don't want to. You make your attack of opportunity at your normal attack bonus, even if you've already attacked in the round.
The bolded text is the only change made, replacing the text "most characters can only make one per round." The Combat Reflexes feat could stay as is, or perhaps add an additional sentence clarifing that the feat does not grant additional Immediate Actions for any other purpose.
The most obvious change is that if you make an AoO, then any other immediate action that round can't be taken. Only stuff that comes to mind though (in Pathfinder proper) is casting Feather Fall and using Mounted Combat to negate a hit.
Comments on why this is or isn't a good idea? I'm mostly just curious. It seems to me that the AoO pretty much matches the mechanic of acting outside of your turn, which is what Immediate Actions do. Why not combine the two and unify the system a little more?
Don't. Barbarians will hate you.
Seriously, some characters have plenty of stuff to do with Swift Actions (and it can be crucial to their core class abilities, like Barbarian Rage Powers) and others just don't, so they wouldn't really care anyways. Why do you want to do this anyways? AoO's are already a 'limited commodity', either 1/round (default) or DEX modifier/round (w/ Combat Reflexes). If you want to limit AoO's, just ban Combat Reflexes (IMHO).
Don't. Barbarians will hate you.
Seriously, some characters have plenty of stuff to do with Swift Actions (and it can be crucial to their core class abilities, like Barbarian Rage Powers) and others just don't, so they wouldn't really care anyways. Why do you want to do this anyways?
I didn't say I wanted to, in fact I specifically said I was just curious. Thank you for the reminder that taking an immediate action removes the ability to take a Swift action the current or following round. That's exactly the kind of info I was looking for.
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Just something that occurred to me. What would the ramifications of classifing an Attack of Opportunity as an Immediate Action be?
Other than denying you the right to take other Immediate actions (like feather fall) and negating your ability to take a Swift action on your next turn?
Probably no other effect.