overwatch style and friendly fire fire (betrayal, teamwork)

[Kris Verschaeve]

Link to overwatch style
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/combat-feats/overwatch-style-combat-style/

Link to Friendly fire (FF)
http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/betrayal-feats/friendly-fire-betrayal-teamwor k/

Is there anything the impedes this working ? I read this thread from a while a back on vital strike not working for overwatch style because vital strike is modified attack action (or that was the consensus I understood from it). For FF it is very explicit that it is standard action and it is a ranged attack.

Triggering an attack of opportunity from your frontliner buddy, your familiar (eldritch guardian) or your animal companion (hunter, sacred huntmaster) seems like a pretty powerful option to me.

[Claxon]

It's good, but only works if your team mate decides to take the feat and decides that risking occasionally being hit by your arrows is worth it.

I can tell you as a player, I would not be willing to participate in that.

In the case of a familiar or animal companion you can make it work though.

[Prof. Löwenzahn]

I'm afraid that does not work mechanically. With Overwatch Style, you don't ready 2 Standard Actions, but 2 ranged attacks. Initiating Friendly Fire is a Special Standard Action that includes a ranged attack, but is not defined as a single Ranged Attack.

Would be different if Friendly Fire said something like "Whenever you make a ranged attack as a Standard Action and..."

I could be wrong though, but that's my understanding of the rules.

[Claxon]

Oh, that's a good point!

You don't get to just ready whatever, it appears to just be ranged attacks specifically, not even standard actions. So things that require a standard action to do probably don't work.

Just like the reason Vital Strike doesn't work.