Brave Sir Robin Tactics

[snobi]

Question 1

Does my opponent get an attack of opportunity if I successfully use Bluff to create a diversion to hide? In 3.5, under the Bluff description, it reads:

"Creating a Diversion to Hide

You can use the Bluff skill to help you hide. A successful Bluff check gives you the momentary diversion you need to attempt a Hide check while people are aware of you. This usage does not provoke an attack of opportunity."

I'm assuming PF rules are the same, as PF mentions this use of Bluff under Stealth, but doesn't really flesh out the specifics like 3.5.

I wasn't sure if "this usage does not provoke an attack of opportunity" applied to the Bluff check only or if it applied to the entire combination of Bluff + Move + Stealth. I'm hoping it's the latter as it would not do me much good to avoid an attack of opportunity on the successful Bluff check, only to take one when I moved away to hide.

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Question 2

I am going to play a tiefling with a prehensile tail. If I grab a smokestick as a swift action and then activate it (I would assume as a standard action), do I take an attack of opportunity?

[Avianfoo]

1)

Stealth wrote:

Creating a Diversion to Hide: You can use Bluff to allow you to use Stealth. A successful Bluff check can give you the momentary diversion you need to attempt a Stealth check while people are aware of you.

If they don't know you are there, how do they get a AoO?

2) I would say no AoO, but I see it as simply popping a cap and having chemicals mix to create smoke. Some might see it as a torch which has to be lit (a smokey torch), but it does not say so anywhere in the smokesticks description. Also if it takes a standard action to activate it, then it can't be thrown, since by the time you can throw it next round the stick is consumed.

[Damon Griffin]

snobi wrote:

I am going to play a tiefling with a prehensile tail. If I grab a smokestick as a swift action and then activate it (I would assume as a standard action), do I take an attack of opportunity?

Question 3: What penalty does the *bamf* sound apply to the Stealth check?

[snobi]

Thanks Avianfoo. :)

[Claxon]

In response to your first question, it applies only to your Bluff check. Using Bluff to attempt to create a diversion doesn't provoke an AoO, mostly because it could be as simple as yelling, "HEY! LOOK OVER THERE!" If your bluff isn't successful they don't look away and you can't attempt to stealth. Even if it is successful you then have to make a stealth check, but you're stealth check is opposed by perception checks, and you can't know if you will fail or succeed. So you make your roll and move, if you're stealth check was higher than the opposed perception check than you're stealthed from that individual and they wouldn't be able to make an AoO against you. If their perception check was higher than your stealth check then you would try to stealthily slink away, fail, and get a greatsword upside your face.

[snobi]

That's a horrible thought!

[Claxon]

snobi wrote:

That's a horrible thought!

Why? The alternative interpretation that you suggested was that by performing a bluff check to create a diversion you automatically avoid all AoO for the turn, regardless of if you were successful at bluffing or at using stealth.

As someone who almost exclusive plays melee characters, that's a horrible thought to me.

[Tim Statler]

I think Snobi meant getting a Greatsword upside the face.

[Lincoln Hills]

By the way, "Hey, look over there!" hasn't worked for me often as a rogue. My usual line of dialogue when trying to create an opening for attack or flight is to look over the foe's shoulder, frown a little, and say, "Shouldn't she be wearing some kind of clothes?"