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Magagumo 07-07-04, 05:10 PM	From the SRD: Combat Reflexes and Additional Attacks of Opportunity: If you have the Combat Reflexes feat you can add your Dexterity modifier to the number of attacks of opportunity you can make in a round. This feat does not let you make more than one attack for a given opportunity, but if the same opponent provokes two attacks of opportunity from you, you could make two separate attacks of opportunity (since each one represents a different opportunity). Moving out of more than one square threatened by the same opponent in the same round doesn’t count as more than one opportunity for that opponent. All these attacks are at your full normal attack bonus.
Magagumo 07-07-04, 05:26 PM	>>Given that being prone means that you are lying on the ground (PHB pg 311), who can be prone? Can oozes be prone? What about creatures with no limbs like snakes? What about incorporeal creatures?<< Anybody can be "prone." Creatures with limbs have to use a free action to drop prone and must use a move action to stand up again. Limbless creatures can go prone or "stand up" as a free action. (No attack of opportunity when a snake "stands up.") >>Being tripped makes you prone. Who can be tripped? Beholders? Gelatinous Cubes? What effect does tripping have on these creatures? Can a prone character be tripped again? What about flying and swimming creatures? Many creatures have neither legs nor any relationship to the ground or gravity. How does tripping effect them?<< Anything using limbs for locomotion can be tripped. Things that don't need limbs for locomotion can't be tripped. You just plain can't trip a snake or a beholder--you won't find this in the rules, but then it really doesn't need to be in there. A creature flying with wings can be "tripped," in which case the creature stalls (see Tactical Aerial Movement in the DMG). You can't make an incorporeal creature fall down. You also can't trip a prone creature (it already fell down and went "boom.") >>When a character gets up from prone, when does the Attack of Opportunity go off? When he is still prone? When he is standing? Can the attacker choose? In one case, the attacker can get a +4 to hit, in the other he can get another trip attack off.<< All attacks of opportunity happen before the actions that trigger them (see Chapter 8 in the PH and my upcoming article on attacks of opportunity in Rules of the Game. When you make an attack of opportunity against someone who's getting up, your target is effectively prone (no AoO against limbless critters that are "getting up.") Summary- Combat Rexes+ reach does not equal multiple trip or attack attempts for approaching a Large or larger character (somethign ToK has covered before). Also, one cannot be perpetually tripped, as one still stand up after the attempt- so go down, get smacked, try to stand, get smacked, finish standing up, and do whatever else you were planning (Just hope you don't provoke another AoO and go down again ;)).
Druid Roxors 07-07-04, 08:18 PM	Deliciously informative. Ill chew on it some more, if you don't mind...