I have an AoO focused character, and I'm looking for feats or abilities that will allow him to take AoOs off of actions that don't normally trigger them.
Examples:
A 4th level Tetori Monk gains the ability to take AoOs against anything trying to initiate a Grapple against them.
The Come Get Me rage power allows a Barbarian to take an AoO whenever they are attacked.
Snake Style allows a character to take an AoO against an enemy whenever that enemy misses them.
Help me compile a list of abilities like these, please. Whatever you can think of, add it to the stack.
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Step Up & Strike allows an AoO when someone 5' steps away from you. Third feat in a chain, requires BAB 6.
Spellbreaker allows an AoO when someone fails a concentration check while you're adjacent. Requires Fighter 10.
Teleport Tactician allows AoOs when someone teleports into or out of your threatened area. Requires Fighter 12.
I've got a fighter with all three of those; NPC casters hate him for about 12 seconds (which is about how long they live...)
That's snake fang you mean, not snake style.
Snapping turtle clutch lets you start a grapple when someone misses you.
Outflank and/or seize the moment are teamwork feats which trigger AoOs from one character when the other scores a crit. Paired opportunists may also be relevant to you.
Swashbucklers use AoOs to parry.
False opening is a feat which does weird things to enemy AoOs.
Broken wing gambit and wounded paw gambit are more teamwork feats which give an enemy bonuses to attack you, and AoOs to friends with the same teamwork feat as a result.
Panther style lets you retaliate when you provoke AoOs for movement. The last feat in the chain lets you get your retaliation in before the AoO.
The Bodyguard feat lets you use aid another on your allies as an AoO (to increase AC).
Combat Patrol kinda fits. It increases your threatened area but not your reach, but it allows you to move as part of the AoO in order to get within reach. This means you can use AoOs to move. It does take a full-round action to set up though (in effect you'd only get AoOs for your turn).
Snap Shot lets you make AoOs with a ranged weapon (and threaten with a ranged weapon). Improved Snap Shot increases the threatened area.
+1 for combat patrol, also Grater Trip + Vicious Stomp
It's not ideal, but the Duelist prestige class gets a version of the Swashbuckler's Parry and Riposte (as well as gaining Combat Reflexes for free).
Brutal Pugilist Barbarians gain the ability to make AoOs against people initiating a grapple (even if they have Improved Grapple or Grab)
Stalwart Defenders can stop an enemy's movement if they hit with an AoO.
Oh yeah, stand still also takes an AoO & stops the enemy moving.
Are there any feats that make it harder for an enemy to use Acrobatics to avoid your AoOs, or that let you take AoOs against enemies who 5' adjust?
Are there any feats that make it harder for an enemy to use Acrobatics to avoid your AoOs, or that let you take AoOs against enemies who 5' adjust?
I son't k ow about feats, but anything that increases your CMD will make it harder to use acrobatics around you. Deflection/dodge/insight/luck/etc bonuses all add to your CMD, and depending on your character a 1 level dip into Monk (regular/scaled fist, Unchained for the +1BAB) could add to that.
As for 5 foot steps, AdAstraGames already mentioned Step Up and Strike, but there could be others.
There's at least one teamwork feat which increases CMD for that purpose though I forget the name. There's a few feats which outright prevent 5' steps - difficult swings & pin down that I know of.
There's at least one teamwork feat which increases CMD for that purpose though I forget the name.
I really want to like Stand Still, but it seems like a poor trade. I guess that's what make the Stalwart Defender special. They can do the same thing without giving up their damage to do it.
Aren't there feats that expand on Combat Patrol? A new Style chain?
Has anyone mentioned the Greater maneuver feats yet?
Bull Rush/Drag/Reposition becomes pretty good once you make the movement provoke attacks, especially with Paired Opportunist.
There's also the infamous Improved Disarm Partner/Paired Opportunist cheese build, which becomes rather fun if you add Shield Snag and Arm Bind to it.
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Outflank and/or seize the moment are teamwork feats which trigger AoOs from one character when the other scores a crit. Paired opportunists may also be relevant to you.
I made a character recently that used both feats to get two AoOs per critical hit, as I argued that the feats were the triggers for AoOs.
Do you believe having both feats is redundant?
Quite a few feats to get there, but if you wield a buckler there is upsetting vengeance
That is a weird feat, baba. I'm not even sure how it works after reading the chain.
Jeebus. That might be the most circumstantial feat chain I've ever seen.
If you're next to them, and you hit them with a specific, underpowered attack, and they stay next to you, and they attack you on their next action, and miss you by at least 5, you get an AoO on them.
Who came up with that nonsense? Three feats for an AoO that requires five different boxes checked to occur?
Am I missing something? How did that make it through development?
It's...not that bad? Assuming you're going for the TWF version of sword n' board (which you should be if you're taking this feat chain) and you don't kill the enemy in the first round, and that attacking the enemy provokes them to attack you back you've got the first 4 conditions covered. These seem like things that will happen in most combats. Getting the enemy to miss you with at least one attack is a matter of luck or a good AC.
It only takes 2 of the feats in that line to get the AoO. The third feat makes it easier to get the AoO because it applies whoever the enemy attacks.
Aren't there feats that expand on Combat Patrol? A new Style chain?
Not really.
"Vanguard Hustle", the third feat in the Vanguard Style chain, is the only other feat with combat patrol as prerequisite, and the style primarily focuses on using AoOs to give bonuses to allies instead of attacking enemies.Vanguard Hustle just extends the protection the style offers from "adjacent" to "within reach of Combat Patrol" (and allows you to use Bodyguard and Saving Shield at the same distance), but you still have to spend a full round setting it up, and only extends defensive uses.
If you want to play a meat wall protecting your allies, it allows your allies to spread out a bit, but it doesn't expand Combat Patrol in general.
Aren't there feats that expand on Combat Patrol? A new Style chain?Not really.
"Vanguard Hustle", the third feat in the Vanguard Style chain, is the only other feat with combat patrol as prerequisite, and the style primarily focuses on using AoOs to give bonuses to allies instead of attacking enemies.Vanguard Hustle just extends the protection the style offers from "adjacent" to "within reach of Combat Patrol" (and allows you to use Bodyguard and Saving Shield at the same distance), but you still have to spend a full round setting it up, and only extends defensive uses.
If you want to play a meat wall protecting your allies, it allows your allies to spread out a bit, but it doesn't expand Combat Patrol in general.
That was the one I was thinking of. Thanks.
As a tangent, I really wish there was some way to tie Combat Patrol and the Dimensional Agility feat line together.