Book 3: Fear-Anger-Retaliation AoO?


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Silver Crusade

This Aglian collective has Retaliation: +2 bonus to attacks of opportunity; one additional reaction per round.

Swarms don't make attack rolls, nor do they have the ability to make Attacks of Opportunity. What is this trait supposed to do?

At least there is some actual cash in this book...

Liberty's Edge

Sober Caydenite wrote:

This Aglian collective has Retaliation: +2 bonus to attacks of opportunity; one additional reaction per round.

Swarms don't make attack rolls, nor do they have the ability to make Attacks of Opportunity. What is this trait supposed to do?

At least there is some actual cash in this book...

I read the same thing today.

I think a more reasonable interpretation is to grant it the Ferocity trait, so that even if the swarm is dispersed by bringing it to 0, it gets one more swarm damage roll before the remaining Aglians scatter to the weeds.

Silver Crusade

The captain's diplomancy ended up shutting things down pretty quick, and since they all scattered to let the tank take the damage, not much harm was inflicted. It was a lot of fun playing the aglians, though.

Liberty's Edge

I thought about this some more and I think I know where the error crept in.

It's not that the AOO was necessarily wrong or that bonus makes no sense at all in the context of the adventure.

The question is whether the Collective is properly considered to be a swarm or a troop. A troop gets an AOO, a swarm does not.

I think given the troop vs swarm rules, that the Collective's members are such it is properly characterized as a Swarm, and so benefits that would accrue only to a troop were improperly considered and granted.

Whatever the case, that was probably the thought process behind it and how it happened.

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