D&D 3.5 Attack of Opportunity.

Specifically, regardeding Ride-By Attack and creatures with a 10ft or over reach. Say a party member charges an ogre that's got a 10ft reach, I'm assuming the ogre gets an attack of opportunity? What about an character using the Ride-By attack? Do they get an attack of oppotunity against them? If so it seems foolish, since you could ready an attack, then get an attack of opportunity against them, basically giving them two attacks for every single one the mounted character gets.

According the SRD, it does NOT provoke an AOO <a href="http://www.systemreferencedocuments.org/resources/" rel="nofollow">http://www.systemreferencedocuments.org/resources/</a>... RIDE-BY ATTACK [GENERAL] Prerequisites : Ride 1 rank, Mounted Combat. Benefit : When you are mounted and use the charge action, you may move and attack as if with a standard charge and then move again (continuing the straight line of the charge). Your total movement for the round can’t exceed double your mounted speed. You and your mount do not provoke an attack of opportunity from the opponent that you attack.

I have to concur with Soft on this one.

If there is another giant / ogre / whatever with reach, next to the one you are attacking you would provoke from it. But the feat is pretty clear, you do not provoke from your target. If you want to hit the ride-by attacker, when it charges you, you must ready an attack :) If you successfully tumble through a threatened square, you do not provoke. Ride-by is the same thing, it's an exception based on the feat. Here is what is on page 66 of the FAQ Will a reach weapon (or natural reach) allow you to make an attack of opportunity against a foe using the Spring Attack or Ride-By Attack feats against you? Don’t you always get an attack of opportunity against a foe that moves in to make a melee attack against you when you have greater reach than that foe? What about a 5-foot step? If you have greater reach than your foe, won’t you get an attack of opportunity against a foe that uses a 5-foot step to get close enough to attack you? Having superior reach allows a creature to threaten more squares, but it doesn’t allow that creature to make attacks of opportunity when it otherwise could not. When you use either Spring Attack or Ride-By Attack, your movement does not provoke attacks of opportunity from the foe you attack using the feat. (The benefit from Ride-By Attack also extends to the mount.) Indeed, one of the main purposes of both of these feats is to allow you to close with foes that outreach you without getting smacked with an attack of opportunity. Remember, however, that neither feat prevents attacks of opportunity from creatures that you’re not attacking. A 5-foot step provokes no attack of opportunity from anyone if that step is your only movement for the round, no matter how much reach those foes have. Again, one of the reasons the 5-foot step rule exists is <a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/er/200302" rel="nofollow">http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/er/200302</a>... It seems to confirm it, the target gets no AoO.

Ok, but what about charging an Ogre with no Ride-By Attack feat, on foot? I suppose that does incur an AoO?

just like to point out that whatever it is you are charging with ride-by-attack does not get an attack of opportunity. his friend next to him that's also threatening you DOES, however. so charging a single target means that there is no attack of opportunity as nothing threatens you. using ride-by-attack through the threatened squares of any other person does provoke those attacks of opportunity though. just to clarify, even if your target has a reach weapon, if he is the target of your ride-by-attackhe does not get an attack of opportunity. thats RAW as for charging on foot, unless you have a feat that gives you the same effect, then yes, moving through a threatened square will provoke that attack of opportunity, if one is available.

Not to be crass, but this is why I run 2nd Ed.

James J. said: Not to be crass, but this is why I run 2nd Ed. Yeah while the whole AoO thing makes sense, it's a bit of a cluster fuck, I do agree. But I'm still looking for confirmation about my belief, if my LVL1 Fighter charges a Ogre (On foot, no special feats) would the Ogre get an attack of opportunity? Since the fighter needs to leave one threatened square in order to get to the adjacent square in order to attack.

Jordan K. said: But I'm still looking for confirmation about my belief, if my LVL1 Fighter charges a Ogre (On foot, no special feats) would the Ogre get an attack of opportunity? Since the fighter needs to leave one threatened square in order to get to the adjacent square in order to attack. Yes. Reach targets not adjacent squares, but the ring of squares just outside that. So because the Fighter is moving from the 10' mark to the 5' mark, he is leaving a threatened square, which provokes an attack.

That's how I've done it. I might be wrong but that's how. I also run SAGA Star Wars. Stupidly enough, I avoid enemies with reach in my scenarios to avoid this whole issue. I see it that if the ogre had shorter arms, what's the deal on AoO? So yeah. But I prefer 2nd.