Rubik
2015-05-05, 02:10 PM
Okay, so your character has the Karmic Strike feat, which allows you to reduce your AC by 4 in order to make an attack of opportunity against any foe who hits you. Simple enough.
But attacks of opportunity explicitly take place before the actions that provoked them.
So what happens if you use your attack of opportunity to, say, disarm your foe of the weapon he's using to hit you? What if your weapon has a stunning effect on a critical hit that he fails his save against? What if you kill him using your attack of opportunity?
If your AoO reduces your opponent's attack's effectiveness, or it disables or kills him prior to his making his attack, does he still provoke the AoO you used to disable or kill him? Would this cause a paradox which creates a black hole in the distant past that destroys the Prime Material Plane, causing the entire multiverse to spin out of control, killing everything that is, was, or ever will be in a flurry of obliterated catgirls?!?!
...my head hurts. :smallfrown:
But attacks of opportunity explicitly take place before the actions that provoked them.
So what happens if you use your attack of opportunity to, say, disarm your foe of the weapon he's using to hit you? What if your weapon has a stunning effect on a critical hit that he fails his save against? What if you kill him using your attack of opportunity?
If your AoO reduces your opponent's attack's effectiveness, or it disables or kills him prior to his making his attack, does he still provoke the AoO you used to disable or kill him? Would this cause a paradox which creates a black hole in the distant past that destroys the Prime Material Plane, causing the entire multiverse to spin out of control, killing everything that is, was, or ever will be in a flurry of obliterated catgirls?!?!
...my head hurts. :smallfrown: