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The "Come and Get Me" rage power says:
Come and Get Me (Ex): While raging, as a free action the barbarian may leave herself open to attack while preparing devastating counterattacks. Enemies gain a +4 bonus on attack and damage rolls against the barbarian until the beginning of her next turn, but every attack against the barbarian provokes an attack of opportunity from her, which is resolved prior to resolving each enemy attack. A barbarian must be at least 12th level to select this rage power.
The question came up last session as to whether this means that the barbarian can get attacks of opportunity against enemy attacks of opportunity. That just seems weird. What if two barbarians who both had this were fighting each other? Would they both just go back and forth until they ran out of AoOs for the round and then continue the combat as normal?
Also, are there any other errata or anything I should know about? The quote above is copied and pasted directly from the PRD, and I think it exactly matches my hard copy of the APG, but I'm new to 12th level, so I just want to be sure I know what I'm doing.
Don't know about any errata, but as to your first question...yes. This is hardly the only way to chain retributive AoOs, though. Two guys w/ no combat maneuver feats. First one tries to grapple, next AoOs w/ trip, 1st counters w/ a trip, 2nd counters with a disarm, 1st counters with a disarm, 2nd goes for the sunder...
People generally don't want to give a foe free AoOs an avoid those situations, so it's not a big deal. You could disallow AoO options that would themselves provoke an AoO, but I'd be VERY hesitant to nerf the options of melee characters for what is, efectively, a purely hypothetical scenario, not something actually happening much in real games.
makes me think of Disgaea. where you could counter counterattacks with counter counter attacks only to be countered back and forth till either the first guy ran out of counters, or one of them died, whichever came first. Defense and Evasion were dump stats unless your class used one of them as an offensive stat and it made Nekomata a pain to kill because they had twice as many counters as freaking brawlers did and twice the offensive power.
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And the very next day after I ask this, it actually happens. Me and an NPC barbarian both have "Come and Get Me", and we get into a melee battle against each other. Luckily, he ran out of AoOs after only one (he'd already AoOed a couple of earlier times that round), so the recursive loop was relatively simple.