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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Malin Genie" data-source="post: 809215" data-attributes="member: 1058">By the letter of the rules you cannot provoke an AoO if you are not threatened.  It is a perfectly reasonable House Rule that the opponent get a free Sunder attempt on your weapon if you perform a combat manoeuvre that would otherwise provoke an AoO (like Disarm without Improved Disarm) but it is not Core rules.A Sunder attempt (like a grapple or disarm attempt) can indeed be made in place of a 'regular' AoO - and if you don't have the appropriate Feat, will in turn provoke an AoO.I think the best approach is simply to allow the disarm attempt without AoO (as per the Core rules) with the appropriate risk that the opponent will step 5ft and smack the silly grin off the silly face of the silly pole-arm wielder on his next turn  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />After all, he can Sunder/Grapple/attack unarmed with impunity when 5ft away, as the Reach weapon user's weapon doesn't threaten him at that range (turn-about is fair play...)</blockquote>