|
From the Core Rulebook under attacks of opportunity:
"Provoking an Attack of Opportunity: Two kinds of actions can provoke attacks of opportunity: moving out of a threatened square and performing certain actions within a threatened square.
Moving: Moving out of a threatened square usually provokes attacks of opportunity from threatening opponents. There are two common methods of avoiding such an attack—the 5-foot step and the withdraw action."
Moving into the threatened square doesn't provoke, but moving out of one does. Thus the first threatened square is "free", but the next one will provoke because you have to move out of the first one to get to it. You can also attempt to acrobatics through to avoid the aoo.
Yes, if normal movement is being performed, and the enemy enters leaves the 1st threatened square and enters into a 2nd threatened square, he provokes unless he takes special action to avoid the AoO.
|
|
Yes, though of course by free I mean it still uses movement, just that you don't provoke. Also, if you leave a threatened square to go into a non-threatened square, that still provokes (unless it is a 5 foot step, withdraw, or acrobatics check)since that is still considered leaving a threatened square. (Just to make that clear in case there was any question.)
If you leave a threatened square via movement (and not 5' step) you provoke an AoO, regardless of whether the square you are moving into is threatened or not.
|
|
Most people have "normal" reach, which means they threaten all 8 squares around them (one square out). People with reach weapons, or creatures/enlarged persons with reach threaten two squares out (10 ft reach. 3 squares out for 15 ft out, etc.) Any enemy passing through (i.e. out of a threatened square) provokes as normal with reach. Also, since you provoke when you leave the square, but before you enter the next one, the aoo takes place in the square you're leaving (this is important if you have a reach weapon you can only use at 10 ft, and not close up).
No need for clarification. You don't provoke for moving into squares: you provoke for moving OUT of them. Thus, the enemy provokes from both players for moving out of the first threatened square.
If a player had a reach weapon, he would threaten squares 10ft away but not 5 ft away. In your example, the enemy would be in a threatened square 1 square before he moved within 5ft, and would provoke on that first movement. He wouldn't provoke on the second movement, because a reach weapon doesn't provoke within 5ft.
If a player had 10ft reach (due to being large, for example), he threatens all squares within 10ft. In your example, the enemy would provoke from the first movement and theoretically also from the second movement (but remember that continued movement through threatened squares doesn't provoke additional AOOs, in your particular case, he would only provoke once).
*edit*
Also, sounds like you shouldn't be listening too closely to the 'advice' of that experienced player, heh.
** spoiler omitted **His argument has been that the first part of the rules for provoking an attack is that you don't if you're moving into a threatened square. So with his argument, you could move from one threatened square to another without creating an attack of opportunity because the rule states that moving into a threatened square doesn't provoke an aoo.
And he's an experienced player? Amazing. Moving out of a threatened square provoke. In fact, he doesn't provoke for entering in another threatened square, he provoke by leaving the previous. The two things can be simultaneous, but he's leaving. So, he provokes not for entering, but for leaving. He's really confused about the rules.
|
His argument has been that the first part of the rules for provoking an attack is that you don't if you're moving into a threatened square. So with his argument, you could move from one threatened square to another without creating an attack of opportunity because the rule states that moving into a threatened square doesn't provoke an aoo.
Moving into a threatened square doesn't itself provoke, but it does nothing to protect you from the AoO provoked by leaving a threatened square. They're separate issues and are determined separately, just like making a ranged touch attack with a spell provokes an AoO from the ranged attack even if the spell that causes the attacks was cast defensively and doesn't itself provoke.
Ranged Touch Spells in Combat: Some spells allow you to make a ranged touch attack as part of the casting of the spell. These attacks are made as part of the spell and do not require a separate action. Ranged touch attacks provoke an attack of opportunity, even if the spell that causes the attacks was cast defensively.
Note however that if you move out of multiple threatened spaces in a round, you only provoke once per opponent (this question came up at my table a little while back).
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.