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If this has been answered before I apologize
If you have the Combat Reflexes feat, you can add your Dexterity modifier to the number of attacks of opportunity you can make in a round. This feat does not let you make more than one attack for a given opportunity, but if the same opponent provokes two attacks of opportunity from you, you could make two separate attacks of opportunity (since each one represents a different opportunity). Moving out of more than one square threatened by the same opponent in the same round doesn't count as more than one opportunity for that opponent. All these attacks are at your full normal attack bonus.
I've bolded the bit that confuses me. This line could be taken one of two ways: One way is that you only provoke one AoO for your movement from any given creature. Another way to take it is that it only applies to creatures who occupy multiple squares (such as a Large creature)
My question is, how people take this to mean, and if you have reach and Combat Reflexes if a creature provokes an opportunity for every square they exit, as technically the provoke for every round
There are 8 squares around a medium sized creature that can be considered "threatened" under normal circumstances.
1 2 3
4 C 5
6 7 8
What that bolded section is telling you is that if you moved 10ft. out of "1" through "2" then into "3", you would only provoke one attack of opportunity even though you left 2 threatened squares.
Here's how I see it. in this part "This feat does not let you make more than one attack for a given opportunity, but if the same opponent provokes two attacks of opportunity from you, you could make two separate attacks of opportunity (since each one represents a different opportunity)"
It's referencing moving through multiple squares that are threatened by a creature. Since each creature threatens an area around themselves, to move past someone you need to move through multiple squares they threaten.
P=Player
B=Baddie
[ ] =empty Square
1. 2. 3.
P[][] --> []P[] --> [][]P
[]B[] --- []B[] ---- []B[]
[][][] --- [][][] --- [][][]
In this little diagram I've made you can see a player runs past baddie. Lets say the baddie has combat reflexes. To move past him he passes through 3 of the baddie's threatened squares. So he's "moving out of more than one square threatened by the same [baddie]". Despite the player leaving multiple squares threatened by the bad guy, the bad guy still only gets 1 Attack of opportunity.
The part allowing multiple AoO's against a single person as long as you have available AoO's left is talking about how if there are multiple, separate actions that provoke an AoO, you can take advantage of both.
As an example, lets say the player tries to cast a spell in frame 1. He then provokes an AoO, and gets hit. Then he tries to flee by running past. This, too, provokes an AoO, so he gets smacked again.
I hope this helps :D
(sidenote, I've got to figure out a better way of showing little diagrams...)
(read's Renlar's explanation)
Oh. Yeah, that's a MUCH simpler way of saying it.
Err...what he said.