AoO on a miss?

[sirpercival]

Is there a way to have people who miss you in melee provoke AoO's?  Kinda like the opposite of Karmic Strike?

[Jackinthegreen]

You mean like Robilar's Gamit?  It works on attacks whether they miss or not.

[sirpercival]

You mean like Robilar's Gamit?  It works on attacks whether they miss or not.

No, I know about that.  I just feel like I remember a feat or ability or something where if someone misses you with a melee attack that provokes an AoO.

If there isn't, great -- I was thinking about homebrewing something like that, and I'm just making sure there's no overlap.

[Jackinthegreen]

In that case, I have less of an idea than you do.  It's possible it's a ToB stance but that's really all I can think of.

I wouldn't worry too much about an overlap though considering what few consequences there are.  lol

[Arz]

Ancient Ancestor (Dragon Descendant 10) AoO on any attack.
Close Combat Fighting - AoO vs grapple attempt.
Defensive Sweep - AoO vs static foe.
Spectral Skirmisher - AoO vs attacker while invisible.
Supernatural Instincts - AoO vs user of supernatural ability.

Are the best of those not mentioned. There are tons more to boot.

[SneeR]

I could have sworn there was a monk prestige class that lets you make a counterattack when they miss or something. AFB, desafortunadamente.

However, to shamelessly plug, my True Swashbuckler gets a Finesse technique called Riposte that let him make an attack of opportunity when he parries an opponent's attack!

[Kethrian]

The revised Star Wars d20 RPG (not Saga!) had a feat in the Hero's Guide, Agile Riposte.  You needed Dodge to take it, and once per round, when your dodge target missed you with a melee attack or melee touch attack, you got an AoO against them.

Later in the same book, there was the Redirect Attack feat, which synergized well with Agile Riposte.  It also needed Dodge, and if your dodge target missed with a melee attack and there was another enemy adjacent to you and within the attacker's reach, then once per round you could force him to reroll his attack against the other enemy.  Because this is completely separate from an AoO, you could use both feats on the same miss!

I actually put both of them (minus the Dodge requirements) as class abilities in my Fighter rewrite.

[ImperatorK]

Counterattack?

[StreamOfTheSky]

Defensive Throw from C.Warrior let you trip your dodge buddy if he missed you with a melee attack.

Elusive Target, also from C.War, had one of its tactics that if a foe whiffed against you with an AoO you provoked for movement, you got a free trip attempt instantly (that did NOT provoke and did NOT count as an AoO!).


Getting further from what you asked, Backstab feat from dragon magazine cause a foe you were flanking to provoke each time he attacked someone other than you.

[nijineko]

robilar's gamibt seconded.

[kitep]

The psionic power Perfect Riposte (CPsi-93) lets you make 1 AOO/round against someone who attacks you and misses.  Psychic Warrior 5/Justice 6.

[Thurbane]

From memory (AFB), I'm pretty sure one of the Monk-like PrCs in the Dragon Compendium gets this as a class ability. Monk of the Enabled hand, maybe?

[Ithamar]

You are correct on the PrC, but the ability provides the AoO when you are hit, not when you are missed.  And the AoO you make is at a -5 penalty.

[Terminus Est]

I could have sworn there was a monk prestige class that lets you make a counterattack when they miss or something. AFB, desafortunadamente.

However, to shamelessly plug, my True Swashbuckler gets a Finesse technique called Riposte that let him make an attack of opportunity when he parries an opponent's attack!

I'm actually playing a homebrew variant that attempts to combine Swashbuckler and Rogue into a higher teir/competency level that also has an ability that allows AoO's against a creature that misses with all of it's attacks that's called Riposte.

It's a fun class.

http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=188150

Yours looks pretty interesting too (and nicely upgraded from the underwhelming swashbuckler).