Mislead vs See Invisibility w / Combat Reflexes

[ckdragons]

An enemy successfully casts mislead adjacent to a PC rogue with see invisibility and Combat Reflexes feat. The rogue is entitled up to 5 attacks of opportunity per round. Does the rogue get 2 attacks of opportunity, one each against the illusion AND the enemy, or must the rogue only get 1 attack of opportunity against either the illusion OR the enemy? If the latter, does the rogue decide which to attack or is it determined randomly, similar to mirror image?

TIA

[willuwontu]

Mislead

The rogue would get 2 attacks of opportunity (even though they may suspect it's an illusion (or know), it still provokes when it moves), and since it does not say that it functions as mirror image, it wouldn't.

[glass]

Just to be clear, the rogue does not get two AoO for the casting of the spell, because at that point the duplicate does not exist yet. If either or both of them subsequently did something that provoked (like walking away from the rogue), or casting another spell next round then the rogue would get AoO as appropriate.

Strictly speaking, there is nothing explicit that I can find that says that illusions ever provoke AoO, but it would be a dead giveaway if they did not so I think we can assume that they do just like whatever they are aping would.

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glass.

[Pizza Lord]

So the breakdown would be:

* Enemy spellcaster attempts to cast his spell without casting defensively. This provokes an AoO, assuming the caster survives and makes any necessary checks if damaged, he completes the spell.

The caster is now invisible but (presumably) has the image superimposed over themselves, so might not be obvious to the rogue.

* If the caster had not moved yet, they could do so, leaving the illusion in place. Otherwise it takes concentration (a standard action normally) to move and direct the illusion (and the spell specifically says beginning the round after casting). If the caster moves, the rogue (with see invisibility) will see him and can take an AoO normally (and can specifically tell that the caster is invisible, as opposed to visible or ethereal or whatever, so the rogue can tell the difference between the two.

* If the caster doesn't move until the next round, wanting to move on the same round as the illusion. He could either move first (as above), and then concentrate, moving the illusion (which would allow the rogue to take an AoO if that action would normally do so). If the rogue hits, he has a chance to disbelieve for interacting with it.

* If the caster concentrates to move the illusion first, that takes his standard action (which does not provoke an AoO) and the rogue will have a chance to take an AoO on the illusion first as it moves. This is the better plan in most cases, since this usually would draw off the enemy's AoO for the round (but obviously not in this case with Combat Reflexes, but the enemy caster might not know the rogue has that).

[AwesomenessDog]

I believe you get to decide what the illusion does from the first round, so it could start out running (the concentration only requires another standard action after the first round) from your square still provoking while you move and provoke as well.

[Balacertar]

The AoO happens as the enemy starts casting mislead. Thus, there is no illusion yet and the rogue only can AoO the caster (provided he does not cast defensively).

On the next round the enemy can chose to do one of many things, opening many scenarios:

- Concentrate in mislead to make the illusion pretend to cast a spell then 5' step himself: the rogue gets an AoO against the illusion

- Concentrate in mislead to make the illusion move away from the rogue then 5' step himself: the rogue gets an AoO against the illusion

- Concentrate in mislead to make the illusion pretend to cast a spell (or take any other action that generates an AoO) then move himself away from the rogue: the rogue gets an AoO on the casting illusion, then an AoO on the enemy moving away

- Concentrate in mislead to make the illusion pretend to cast a spell and move away from the rogue afterwards, then move himself away from the rogue: the rogue gets two AoOs on the illusion for casting then moving, then an AoO on the enemy moving away

- Not concentrate in mislead when the illusion was doing no activity that generates AoO and cast a spell himself or move away then cast: the rogue gets an AoO on the enemy, but not in the illusion who is doing nothing but standing there

- Not concentrate in mislead when the illusion was pretending to cast and cast a spell himself or move away then cast: the rogue gets an AoO on both the enemy and the illusion as both are generating AoOs

Note concentrating in a spell is a standard action that does not generate AoO. Thus, you cannot concentrate in the illusion and cast another spell yourself, unless it is a swift action, but then those spells do not generate AoOs.

Note, if you do not start continuously concentrating in the spell the round after casting, the mislead just keeps repeating what you directed it to do on the round of casting.