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No, because you are not making an attack of opportunity when you use Opportune Parry and Riposte. You are using one of your allotted uses of however many attacks of opportunity you have in order to fuel the ability, similar to how any other ability with limited function work (like a Bard's number of performances or a Barbarian's rage rounds).
Even if this worked, I can make no clear determination about using your unarmed strike to parry and then responding with a spear attack after you step back, as (oddly enough) Opportune Parry & Riposte does not explicitly call out using a one handed piercing weapon to be used in the attempt. I'd want to say no, because Panache is keyed off using such as weapon, but RAW is RAW.
Its all in the phrasing of the ability. You determine the Parry attack roll as if you were making an attack of opportunity, but you are NOT making an attack of opportunity because an attack of opportunity normally deals damage on a successful result. Instead, you merely parry an attack that might normally have hit you. Also, the enemy doesn't actually 'provoke' an attack of opportunity from you when using Opportune Parry and Response.
The swashbuckler makes an attack roll as if she were making an attack of opportunity; for each size category the attacking creature is larger than the swashbuckler, the swashbuckler takes a –2 penalty on this roll. If her result is greater than the attacking creature’s result, the creature’s attack automatically misses
Would static bonuses apply? You might need to clarify which ones you are referring to, or other class abilities or triggering effects. The game generally functions a certain way and explicit or specific features may change it.
To be clear, I find the idea of a Warrior Poet parrying an attack, stepping back, and riposting to be a very appealing concept. I am biased towards letting you do it as GM, but .. rules section and all.
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BONUS QUESTION: Any combination of feats/class features/etc that would allow me to count an elven branched spear as a legal weapon for panache regenerating features? (crits and kills, etc)
Three levels of Phalanx Soldier fighter. That's the only one I know of that specifically lets you wield it "as a one-handed weapon." (Shield Brace doesn't change the spear from two-handed.)
Or (in the interest of completeness), assuming you are medium you could use a small elven branched spear. Lots of downside to that and pretty sure not what you want.
As for the main question - what everyone else says. The parry part of opportune parry and riposte is NOT an attack of opportunity, it just uses the same mechanics.
"How does the rest of this exchange playout? Do I become a no longer legal target? Does their attack fizzle?"
well it has been tried out before in a more simple way.
you can ready an action along side taking a 5 ft step.
some1 before in the forum asked: "well can't i ready to move back once some1 try to attack me? as the ready happen before the attack he would be out of reach when he try to attack."
the overall agreed answer was that since he didn't attack yet, if he has anymore movement he can take it then (he was moving before attacking and didn't finish) to get close and then attack.
i would say what you are trying to do isn't any different from the "Dodging Panache" deed that let you take 5 ft when attacked but that attack is resolved as if you were still in reach.
Please let me know your thoughts/if there's an answer to this!
The attack would fizzle as you quit being a viable target, but as others have said: OP&R won't work because the target isn't actually provoking.
You'd want something like the Flying Blade's Disrupting Counter (only works with Starknives/Daggers) coupled with a Blue Scarf Swordmaster's Flair for +5 ft reach.
BONUS QUESTION: Any combination of feats/class features/etc that would allow me to count an elven branched spear as a legal weapon for panache regenerating features? (crits and kills, etc)
Kata Master / Master of Many Style Monk. Place the spear in the monk weapon group with a Versatile Design weapon mod (spend a feat on Weapon Adept) which qualifies it for Ascetic Style which you pick up with the MoMS level.
Kata Master gains the Panache ability but can use their unarmed strike in place of a light/one-handed piercing weapon, while Ascetic Style allows you to treat your spear as an unarmed strike.|
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BONUS QUESTION: Any combination of feats/class features/etc that would allow me to count an elven branched spear as a legal weapon for panache regenerating features? (crits and kills, etc)Kata Master / Master of Many Style Monk. Place the spear in the monk weapon group with a Versatile Design weapon mod (spend a feat on Weapon Adept) which qualifies it for Ascetic Style which you pick up with the MoMS level.
Kata Master gains the Panache ability but can use their unarmed strike in place of a light/one-handed piercing weapon, while Ascetic Style allows you to treat your spear as an unarmed strike.
Trying to work my way through this one.
A kata master can use an unarmed strike or monk special weapon in place of a light or one-handed piercing melee weapon for granted swashbuckler class features and deeds.
OK. Unarmed Strikes and monk weapons can be used for "granted" swashbuckler class features and deeds. I think legality is going to come down to deciding what "granted" means. Granted by Kata Master, or granted from any class?
When versatile design is added to a weapon, choose a fighter weapon group. The modified weapon is considered to be a weapon of that weapon group (such as for the fighter’s weapon training class feature). A melee weapon cannot be considered part of a weapon group for ranged weapons, and vice versa.
We now have the elven branched spear in the monk weapon group but it still doesn't have the monk special quality, so our Kata Master can't use it yet.
Choose one weapon from the monk fighter weapon group. While using this style and wielding the chosen weapon, you can apply the effects of feats that have Improved Unarmed Strike as a prerequisite, as well as effects that augment an unarmed strike, as if attacks with the weapon were unarmed attacks.
Here's our second roadblock. This one, specific elven branched spear that we used versatile design on is in the monk fighter weapon group. But the whole set of elven branched spears is NOT in that group, so are we allowed to choose it? I'd allow it, but it's not unreasonable for a GM to disallow it. If it is allowed, then we have to agree that the kata master ability to use an unarmed strike for swashbuckler features and deeds is one of the "effects that augment an unarmed strike."
So I would allow this but I can see three points where another GM might decide it doesn't work. The Ascetic Style/weapon group issue in particular.
"For granted swashbuckler class features and deeds." Don't know officially what this means but is there a possibility it's saying this only works for swashbuckler class features and deeds granted as a kata master?
Kata Master gains the Panache ability but can use their unarmed strike in place of a light/one-handed piercing weapon....
Yep that's what I assume. But it does let you regain panache with crits/killing blows as you have been given the Swash Panache class feature from the archetype.
And nowhere in the description of OP&R does it say that you need to use a piercing light/one-handed weapon to use it. Any swash could, if they wanted to, use a Sledgehammer to parry. The issue lies in regaining panache which Kata Master solves.
@Belafon
Re: Ascetic Style
That seems counter intuitive to the reason why the weapon mod exists in the first place, but I guess you could settle for 5 levels of Fighter to circumvent that issue.
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@Belafon
Re: Ascetic Style
That seems counter intuitive to the reason why the weapon mod exists in the first place, but I guess you could settle for 5 levels of Fighter to circumvent that issue.
They are two different things from two different books that weren't written with the other particularly in mind.
The weapon modification exists so that (for example) a fighter built around dual-wielding kukris could decide he wants to carry a reach weapon just in case. He has weapon training: light blades. He buys a longspear with the versatile design modification so that he'll get his Weapon Training bonus on the occasions when he has to use it.
Ascetic style exists mainly so a PC can get benefits with a monk weapon that normally require an unarmed strike. Like choosing "temple sword" and being able to use that weapon with Panther Style. Or Stunning Fist with the sword. If the PC was a 10th-level monk his temple sword would count as magic, cold iron, silver, and lawful.
Levels of fighter wouldn't circumvent the issue. The issue is that while - thanks to versatile design - you have one particular elven branched spear that is considered to be in the fighter monk weapon group, almost none of the total elven branched spears in existence are in the fighter monk weapons group. Ascetic style asks you to choose a weapon from the monk fighter weapons group. Normally you couldn't choose the elven branched spear. Since you personally have an elven branched spear that counts as a monk fighter weapon can you choose it? What if you don't have one (yet) but a party member does? What if you know the BBEG has one? What if there aren't any around but you plan to craft a versatile elven branched spear in the future? Can you choose the spear with Ascetic Style in all those cases?
Like I said: I personally would allow you to have a versatile elven branched spear and then take Ascetic Style - but its effects would only apply to that one spear. However it's perfectly reasonable for a GM to say "That logic creates an infinitely open-ended situation where any melee weapon is fair game for Ascetic Style simply because the Versatile Design modification exists. You have to pick a weapon where all of the weapons of that type are in the monk group. So just ones normally listed there."
I'm dogpiling on the general consensus that OP&R isn't an AoO, it uses one of your round's AoOs to perform the parry. Although these abilities cannot work together, they synergize well if you use both individually.
If you want to capitalize on AoO's, Petal on the Wind, Step Up & Strike, and OP&R with a dex-based char with a Keen Fortuitous Elven Curve Blade (15-20/x2) and Long Arm can really do some work. If you have a melee buddy or two, throw in Seize the Moment and Outflank if you want to turn into a constantly-moving blender of death and sharp things. Throw in Greater Trip to crank this up to 11 and break the knob off.
Maybe even talk one or two of your party members into taking Animal Ally and Boon Companion, and put Outflank and Seize the Moment on the Animal Allies.
Levels of fighter wouldn't circumvent the issue.
I should have clarified. The feat has a special exception that you can use Ascetic Style with any weapon in the monk weapon group if you have the Weapon Training class feature.
"Special: A 5th-level monk or character with the weapon training (monk) class feature can use Ascetic Style with any monk weapon, in addition to the chosen melee weapon."
Which allows you to use the versatile design spear even though you didn't select it for Ascetic Style. That is, you can take Ascetic Style (Cestus) and it will apply to your Versatile Design Elven Branched Spear as it is part of the monk weapon group.
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Normally you couldn't choose the elven branched spear. Since you personally have an elven branched spear that counts as a monk fighter weapon can you choose it? What if you don't have one (yet) but a party member does? What if you know the BBEG has one? What if there aren't any around but you plan to craft a versatile elven branched spear in the future? Can you choose the spear with Ascetic Style in all those cases?
Like I said: I personally would allow you to have a versatile elven branched spear and then take Ascetic Style - but its effects would only apply to that one spear.
Yes, you can choose the modified versatile design spear with Ascetic Style in all those cases even if the weapon is purely hypothetical.
The feat would only apply to modded versions of the spear, never the base variant.
Edit: But yeah I see your point. If a GM doesn't want to deal with Schrodinger's weapon then that's fair.
I'm aware of the distinction, but in this case I believe that the feat is actually referring to the monk weapon group. Compare the text to Outslug Style from the same book.
Outslug Style:
"Special: In addition to the chosen weapon, a character with the weapon training (close) or the brawler’s close weapon mastery class feature can use Outslug Style with any close weapon."
Ascetic Style:
"Special: A 5th-level monk or character with the weapon training (monk) class feature can use Ascetic Style with any monk weapon, in addition to the chosen melee weapon."
Considering that Ascetic Style is explicitly for the monk weapon group I feel quite confident in that that's how it's meant to be interpreted.
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But if you end up playing with a GM that disallows Versatile Design weapons as viable choices for Ascetic Style and also chooses to ignore context for the special clause of Ascetic Style, then you can still make it work with Martial Versatility.