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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mvincent" data-source="post: 3316706" data-attributes="member: 27034">From the <a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/rg/20050705a" target="_blank">Rules of the Game</a>:"Sunder: You can attempt to sunder an object as a melee attack. You usually use the attack or full attack action for a sunder, but you also can sunder as an attack of opportunity."From the 3.5 FAQ:"Sunder is a special kind of melee attack. If it were a specialstandard action, its description would say so (as the descriptivetext for the Manyshot feat says).If you make a full attack, and you have multiple attacksfrom a high base attack bonus, you can sunder more than once,or attack and sunder, or some other combination of attackingand sundering.Sunder does indeed get its own entry in Table 8–2: Actionsin Combat in the Player’s Handbook. It needs one becauseunlike a regular melee attack, sunder provokes an attack ofopportunity (although not if you have the Improved Sunderfeat).You can also disarm, grapple, or trip as a melee attack (orattack of opportunity).Also"As long as every attack is made with one of the monk’s special weapons (that is, weapons allowed as part of a flurry), the monk can perform any special attack that takes the place of a normal attack. She’s free to disarm, sunder, trip, and grapple to her heart’s content."and"the same ogre trying to sunder your weapon with his greatclub would provoke an attack of opportunity that you could make only against the greatclub (that is, with a disarm or sunder attempt)."and"Is it possible for an attack of opportunity to provoke anattack of opportunity? For example, a fighter attempts totrip a cleric. The cleric chooses to make a sunder attackagainst the fighter’s weapon as his attack of opportunity.Does the sunder attack then provoke an attack ofopportunity from the fighter?Yes. An attack of opportunity is adjudicated just like anyother attack, and it is subject to the same rules (includingprovoking additional attacks of opportunity).So, at the very least, if your were in an official RPGA game (which uses such clarifications) then you certainly could Sunder on an AOO. The above rulings also seem like fair information that even non-RPGA questioning posters should at least have access to.Really? Fair enough; I have edited my previous post.I've read them, and I agreed completely when they said that this board has a bad reputation for bickering (long before I started posting here regularly). I believe this is largely because the moderators themselves encourage the disparaging of the FAQ and RotG (i.e. supplements that are normally intended to resolve common rules debates). I constantly see rude remarks after doing nothing but quoting such supplements (i.e. offering information in order to assist others). Based on a previous poll on the subject, their viewpoint seems to be a minority, but nonetheless such posting has become pervasive here.</blockquote>

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