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Soft cover is for ranged attacks, and thus for reach attacks, because any attack against a non-adjacent enemy uses the ranged cover rules. So you could disarm with a reach weapon against someone non-adjacent to you and the cover AC modifier still wouldn't apply because Disarm doesn't allow for...

Disarm is like Trip except for the requirement in Trip to make an armed (with special weapons) or unarmed melee touch attack first and only if that attack succeeds does the attempt continue. This implies that all situational AC modifiers, such as non-total cover, blinded, pinned and oddly...

Line of effect is defined in the PHB glossary. It is essentially line of sight ignoring invisibility etc. I've thought it over and the rules seem to make sense. So of the four possibilities (ignoring the Improved Disarm feat): Non-total cover - line of effect so disarm can happen. However...

A monk with improved disarm attempts a disarm against someone around a corner (cover). How does disarm interact with cover? Cover prevents AoO, but Improved Disarm doesn't allow for AoOs anyway. Also cover is only an AC bonus which doesn't work with the opposed roll in disarm. Likewise...