Swashbuckler and Paired Opportunist


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Would the Swashbuckler ability Opportune Parry and Riposte trigger, the teamwork feat, Paired Opportunists?

Opportune Parry and Riposte:
Opportune Parry and Riposte (Ex): At 1st level, when an opponent makes a melee attack against the swashbuckler, she can spend 1 panache point and can expend a use of an attack of opportunity to attempt to parry that attack. The swashbuckler makes an attack roll as if she were making an attack of opportunity. If her attack roll is greater than the roll of the attacking creature, the attack automatically misses. For each size category the attacking creature is larger than the swashbuckler, the swashbuckler takes a –2 penalty on her attack roll. The swashbuckler must declare the use of this ability after the creature’s attack is announced, but before that attack roll is made. Immediately after a swashbuckler performs a successful parry, as long as she has 1 panache point she can make an attack as an immediate action against the creature whose attack she blocked, provided that creature is within her reach.

Paired Opportunists:
Benefit: Whenever you are adjacent to an ally who also has this feat, you receive a +4 circumstance bonus on attacks of opportunity against creatures that you both threaten. Enemies that provoke attacks of opportunity from your ally also provoke attacks of opportunity from you so long as you threaten them (even if the situation or an ability would normally deny you the attack of opportunity). This does not allow you to take more than one attack of opportunity against a creature for a given action.


The swashbuckler would get the +4 from Paired Opportunists for the Parry roll, since the roll is made as if it was an AOO. However, it is not actually an AOO, the enemy isn't provoking an AOO from the swashbuckler so the teammate would not get an AOO of their own.

The wording in parry that refers to AOOs is there for two reasons: One to limit the number of parries you can do a round ("expend a use of an attack of opportunity") and to grant you any bonuses from abilities that improve AOO rolls ("an attack roll as if she were making an attack of opportunity").

The teamwork feat specifically says it activates when an enemy provokes an AOO, which isn't the case here.

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