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I would say that teleportation is “a form of movement that doesn’t usually provoke.”
It sounds like the GM has thrown an encounter at you specifically designed to negate your (very focused) build. While that’s not cool if he’s doing it constantly, it’s fairly common for this to occur at least once to each character in a long-running campaign. It gives the players a chance to think outside the box. “What can I do when my main schtick is negated?”
You have to have Disruptive/Spellbreaker/Teleport Tactician (and 10 levels of Fighter) to make AoO against someone teleporting.
I would say that teleportation is “a form of movement that doesn’t usually provoke.”
It sounds like the GM has thrown an encounter at you specifically designed to negate your (very focused) build. While that’s not cool if he’s doing it constantly, it’s fairly common for this to occur at least once to each character in a long-running campaign. It gives the players a chance to think outside the box. “What can I do when my main schtick is negated?”
total jerk move by any GM. GM's should not metagame in any form or fashion. A GM's story should be preplanned and proactive to the players and their character builds, not reactive.
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total jerk move by any GM. GM's should not metagame in any form or fashion. A GM's story should be preplanned and proactive to the players and their character builds, not reactive.I would say that teleportation is “a form of movement that doesn’t usually provoke.”
It sounds like the GM has thrown an encounter at you specifically designed to negate your (very focused) build. While that’s not cool if he’s doing it constantly, it’s fairly common for this to occur at least once to each character in a long-running campaign. It gives the players a chance to think outside the box. “What can I do when my main schtick is negated?”
To be fair, if anything can justify metagaming, a mythic character with Dimension Dervish 'at will' probably would...
Teleportation is not movement in the sense that cage enemy is talking about, IMO. The conjuration (teleportation) rules pretty carefully avoid ever calling it movement; instead they use 'transport'.
Consider also that you cannot take a 5 foot step if you use any kind of movement, but you can in a round where you cast teleport or dimension door (as long as you don't also do a normal move).
I think that second thing pretty definitively means teleporting is not movement. The clause in Cage Enemy is there to stop you from using, for example, the withdraw action, Acrobatics, or Spring Attack to avoid the attack.
The rules about the movement from Dimensional Dervish are ambiguous and pretty gray about how this gets treated, but this movement can be thought of as both movement as a "special type of charge" and teleportation at the same time. So, given that this is not very well defined, your GM is correct either way he treats this.
So, I would metagame your GM back and put up Mirror Image and/or Displacement to negate the damage from the Attack of Opportunity, because if it causes no damage then you don't get your movement stopped. This is cheap and easy if you get them on Wands.
An expensive but hard counter to this would be taking 2 levels of Rogue for Slow Reactions and take Dimensional Savant so you can flank with yourself.
Dimensional Assault allows you to make a charge while teleporting. Charging is considered movement so it stands to reason using dimensional dervish would also be considered movement. Several off the feats in this chain also reference your speed. That is another indication that using these feats should be considered movement.
Dimensional Assault allows you to make a charge while teleporting. Charging is considered movement so it stands to reason using dimensional dervish would also be considered movement. Several off the feats in this chain also reference your speed. That is another indication that using these feats should be considered movement.
"You can take a full-attack action, activating abundant step or casting dimension door as a swift action. If you do, you can teleport up to twice your speed (up to the maximum distance allowed by the spell or ability), dividing this teleportation into increments you use before your first attack, between each attack, and after your last attack. You must teleport at least 5 feet each time you teleport."
Nope... it simply says you can teleport up to twice your speed instead of the normal amount the spell allows. Teleport. Not move.
It takes Fighter-specific feats to make AoO against teleporting enemies. Mythic or not, without those aforementioned Disruptive/Spellbreaker/Teleport Tactician feats... dude can't do $#!+ against teleportation. Teleportation is NOT movement.
"Teleportation: a teleportation spell transports one or more creatures or objects a great distance. The most powerful of these spells can cross planar boundaries. Unlike summoning spells, the transportation is (unless otherwise noted) one-way and not dispellable.
Teleportation is instantaneous travel through the Astral Plane. Anything that blocks astral travel also blocks teleportation."
"Movement
There are three movement scales, as follows:
Tactical, for combat, measured in feet (or 5-foot squares) per round.
Local, for exploring an area, measured in feet per minute.
Overland, for getting from place to place, measured in miles per hour or miles per day."
This is exactly why my Arcane Dervish Bard took Teleport Tactician at level 11 instead of Discordant Voice (which had to wait until level 13). It is a very rare opportunity to pick up said Teleport Tactician without being a big dumb Fighter. Using a Longspear by default, I can pretty much protect my entire party from teleporting enemies [if the need arises].
This is also exactly why I build enemy NPC's (and monsters) with the Dimensional Savant/Maneuver feat chain... they are extremely hard to counter if you do not happen to have Teleport Tactician. It's also why I give pretty much every one of my big dumb Fighter NPC's (enemy and friendly) the Teleport Tactician feat chain... most any NPC that has the ability to count as Fighter levels for the purposes of feats will have these [Teleport Tactician], as well.
It's that big of a deal [to me].
The Combat Stamina trick is pretty fun... anyone hit by an AoO granted by Teleport Tactician is Dazed for 1rnd (Fortitude save to negate the Daze effect is 10+BAB).