Does trick attack provoke an AOO

[Scottybobotti]

If you are within the AOO range of a creature and trick attack it does that mean the creature is now flat footed and if you have the shot on the run feat you can move and not provoke an AOO?

Or does the action of trick attacking actually provoke an AOO?

[BigNorseWolf]

Scottybobotti wrote:

If you are within the AOO range of a creature and trick attack it does that mean the creature is now flat footed and if you have the shot on the run feat you can move and not provoke an AOO?

Or does the action of trick attacking actually provoke an AOO?

Only moving, making an attack, and casting a spell provoke in starfinder. Despite the name the "trick attack" itself isn't an attack.

. Just before making your attack, attempt a Bluff, Intimidate, or Stealth check (or a check associated with your specialization) with a DC equal to 20 + your target’s CR. If you succeed at the check, you deal 1d4 additional damage and the target is flat-footed

So we have a clear order of operations

LOOK A MONKEY!
ZAP

Zap would provoke an attack of opportunity. Look a monkey would not. If you successfully do the trick attack they are flat footed "against that attack" ... which would mean they can't AOO.

But if as part of your trick attack you moved

move
Look a monkey
Zap

Moving would provoke without uncanny dodge, since you move, stop, look a monkey, zap. (it also means uncanny mobility isn't useless after level 7)

If you succeed and they're flat footed they can't AOO you. Only the attack part of trick attack would provoke

[NorthernDruid]

If you're using shot on the run or spring attack or whatever, and you're making them flat-footed with debilitating trick, then after you hit them with the trick attack and apply flat-footed to them they can no longer make AoOs and you can dance around them as much as you want.

The base trick attack only makes them flat footed against the accompanying attack itself however.

[BigNorseWolf]

cough, making a ranged attack, cough. Sorry