>Starting a mid level monstrous campaign, That Guy plays an ogre ranger >With his starting money, spends a smallish chunk on a bunch of sheep >Oh, he's going to carry them along as a mobile food source, I think >No, instead, he uses his skills with animals to train his sheep to run around him in a circle when he gives a signal. >That way, when they get into combat, his sheep start running around him, and he claims AOO on them, which combined with Combat Reflexes and Cleave, he uses to get extra attacks on monsters >Shut this down immediately, your own trained sheep are not a threat, and you can't get AOOs on them. >Complains about how I'm an unfair bullshitting GM >Will not accede to either reason or rule zero.
>player comes up with creative and fun solution >shut down by muh realism power-tripping DM
Lol you shore told that le rollplayer! XD
Brandon Long
bait
fuck you for taking it
Jace Miller
>XD Fuck off
Zachary Gutierrez
A bizarre rules exploit that makes no sense is not a 'creative and fun solution'
William Diaz
>Fuck off XD
David Rodriguez
You can't cleave off AoO anyway, can you?
Leo Diaz
You can't even call it an exploit, because there's no substance to the player's logic.
The GM is correct in stating that trained ALLIED sheep running in a circle will not generate AoOs. Even if it did (ignoring the far-reaching implications later on in the campaign), an AoO can't be swapped between targets; the AoO resolves against the provoker. The player is trying to gain the system in a way that isn't possible, RAW or RAI. I suspect the player had a GM in the past who operated under house rules or similar faulty logic.
OP is justified in his fictional story to kick the offender if said PC refuses to listen to sound logic and Rule Zero, as at that point the PC is only in it for himself and will prove a detriment in the future.
Joseph Hughes
3.5 RAW says it's ok
3.5 RAW is broke
Brandon Flores
That sounds hilarious. I would've let him get away with it at least once before the sheep turn on him.
