Litany of Sloth vs. Cage Enemy (mythic)


Rules Questions


Litany of Sloth says no AoO can be made. Cage enemy says any creature making any movement, even if it doesn't usually provoke, provokes. If a Paladin uses Litany of Sloth on a Guardian, and moves past the Guardian, does the Paladin provoke if the Guardian uses Cage Enemy?

Litany of Sloth (Paladin spell):
School enchantment (compulsion) [language-dependent, mind-affecting]; Level antipaladin 1, inquisitor 1, paladin 1

CASTING
Casting Time 1 swift action
Components V, S, DF

EFFECT
Range close (25 ft. + 5 ft./2 levels)
Target one creature
Duration 1 round
Saving Throw no; Spell Resistance yes

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DESCRIPTION
With a litany against the wages of sloth, you slow the target’s defenses. The target cannot make attacks of opportunity or cast spells defensively.

While subject to this spell, the target cannot be the target of another spell that has the word "litany" in the title.

Cage Enemy (Mythic Guardian path ability):
Cage Enemy (Ex)

You can pin enemies foolish enough to face you. As an immediate action, you can expend one use of mythic power to hinder opponents until the end of your next turn. When this ability is active, any creature moving out of one of your threatened squares, even when making a 5-foot step or using a form of movement that doesn't usually provoke attacks of opportunity, provokes an attack of opportunity from you. If your attack of opportunity hits and deals damage, the creature remains in its current space and its movement ends. Alternatively, you can expend one use of mythic power as part of a charge. If the charge attack hits, the target can't move itself from its space until the beginning of your next turn (though others can move the creature).

Shadow Lodge

Personally I would say yes it would provoke, because mythic abilities trump a lot of standard abilities. The advantage is you're forcing them to use a limited resource to get back to the point they would be at normally.


The paladin provokes an attack of opportunity that can't be made. Seems simple. Just because you provoke an AoO doesn't mean the person can take it (out of AoO for instance). You still provoke, it just doesn't matter. If you move slightly past but still adjacent to a skeleton, cast a ranged touch spell, and target someone with it, you'll provoke 3 AoO (movement, spell, ranged attack). The skeleton can only choose to use one of those AoO, but you provoked 3 times.


There is no default rule that mythic trumps general. It is always called out. The mythic ability lets you make AoO's against acts that don't normally provoke. It does not allow you to make an AoO, if an affect has taken away your ability to make them, so I am saying no.

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