Multiple AoO's


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Hello I have a question about the having Combat Reflexes and making multiple attacks of opportunity bit.

"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."

Lets say an opponent with only a 5 foot radius threat range like a normal medium humanoid creature.

This means that if you moved around him staying in his threatened squares this would only Provoke 1 attack right?

Well what if you moved out of his threat range (Provoking an AoO) moved back into his threat range and then moved back out again? (Essentially doing a zig zag pattern while still moving around him) would this allow multiple AoO's?


Alric Rahl wrote:

Hello I have a question about the having Combat Reflexes and making multiple attacks of opportunity bit.

"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."

Lets say an opponent with only a 5 foot radius threat range like a normal medium humanoid creature.

This means that if you moved around him staying in his threatened squares this would only Provoke 1 attack right?

Well what if you moved out of his threat range (Provoking an AoO) moved back into his threat range and then moved back out again? (Essentially doing a zig zag pattern while still moving around him) would this allow multiple AoO's?

All the movement you could hope to do around a target provokes only one AoO opportunity per round.

You can do other things during the round in the target's threatened area that would provoke additionally, but movement by itself only grants one opportunity.


Any movement in a round only provokes once basically, no matter the number of time it could potentially provoke it the movement was broken up over multiple turns. Because of the rule if you have unlimited movement you could run circles around him 100 time going away and coming back between each circle and never provoke more than 1 attack of opportunity.

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