Can an Attack of Opportunity Attack trigger another Attack of Opportunity?

[Painkeeper]

Hello everybody!

I have a question about the rules, and I hope this is the right spot where posting it.

* If a character (A) makes an unarmed attack without relevant feats against an armed and ready opponent (character B) he provokes an attack of opportunity.
* Let's say that B want to use the trip maneuver in place of her attack of opportunity, but she hasn't the Improved Trip.
* Does B's trip attempt provoke an attack of opportunity?

I'd say yes, but our group is confused bye the wording found on page 180, column A, under Making an Attack of Opportunity:

Pathfinder Chronicles Game Core Rulebook wrote:

An attack of opportunity “interrupts” the normal flow of actions in the round. If an attack of opportunity is provoked, immediately resolve the attack of opportunity, then continue with the next character’s turn (or complete the current turn, if the attack of opportunity was provoked in the midst of a character’s turn).

A person in our group refers to the bolded text, stating that, in his opinion, A's attack of opportunity could not be triggered because after B's attack of opportunity the turn must continue.

Which was the intention of the rule designers?

Thank you very much.

[mdt]

Yes, an AoO can provoke an attack of opportunity. It can get kind of confusing.

For example...

A Provokes with an unarmed attack. B decides to trip. B does not have improved trip nor a trip weapon, and fails by enough to provoke. A can then Attack of opportunity B. Once A is done with their attack of opportunity, then A can continue with their unarmed attack.

It can really get confusing, if A used an unarmed attack for their AoO, and if B had combat reflexes, they could then get another AoO on A because they made another Unarmed Attack without the right feats.

[ZappoHisbane]

The unarmed examples don't work because you can't make AoO's when unarmed, unless you have improved unarmed strike. Two people trying to do combat manuvers to each other without the appropriate feats still causes the weirdness. :)

[BigNorseWolf]

mdt wrote:

Yes, an AoO can provoke an attack of opportunity. It can get kind of confusing.

For example...

A Provokes with an unarmed attack. B decides to trip. B does not have improved trip nor a trip weapon, and fails by enough to provoke. A can then Attack of opportunity B. Once A is done with their attack of opportunity, then A can continue with their unarmed attack.

It can really get confusing, if A used an unarmed attack for their AoO, and if B had combat reflexes, they could then get another AoO on A because they made another Unarmed Attack without the right feats.

LIFO. Last in first out

Two archeologists are fighting over a statue.

1) A holding the statue, attempts to punch B without draws an aoo because he doesn't have improved unarmed strike.

2) B Uses his attack of opportunity to disarm A of the statue.

3) A gets their attack of opportunity against the disarm And tries to punch B in the face

Now since these guys don't have combat reflexes that should be the end of it: you normally only get one attack of opportunity a round. Gods help you if you get two people with that feat... you need to stop combat and diagram it out.

The first thing that gets resolved is 3: A's attack of opportunity Punch to B's head. 2) If B is still conscious, he gets to try his disarm. 1) THen A get's his original punch (3 2 1 )