disarm

[Eben]

Hi all,

When an attacker tries to disarm you, he draws an AoO. I guess only the defender can make an AoO?
If he fails, the defender may attempt to disarm him. Does this again draw an AoO and if so, who can make an AoO against the defender.

My guess would be no because it's not really an action you make during your initiative, but I'm not sure.

Thanks for any replies!

Peter

 

[LokiDR]

When attacking to disarm, you provoke an AoO. Pg 137 of my PH says "from the defender", so you would only provoke an AoO from the person you are trying to disarm. Likewise a counter disarm check.

 

[hong]

Passage of play from the last session.

Chaos beast has smacked the archer in the arm, causing her to lose 1 point of Wisdom per round. When she gets to 0, she turns into a puddle. Other characters are trying to amputate the arm before this happens. Archer doesn't appreciate this, and has to be gang-tackled into submission.

Player: Okay, she's pinned. Now I'm going to cut off the arm! What do I do?

Me: The two of you, make opposed attack rolls.

Player: Huh?

Me: You're trying to disarm her.

 

[Eben]

Thanks Hong, it all makes perfect sense now.

But would the player get an AoO when his opposed attack failed and the archer tried to disarm him?

 

[dcollins]

If he fails, the defender may attempt to disarm him. Does this again draw an AoO and if so, who can make an AoO against the defender?

My reading is "no". The counter-disarm goes straight to the opposed melee attack roll, without any additional attack of opportunity (per PHB p. 137).

 

[Steverooo]

The Easy Answer is:

Attacks of Opportunity do not provoke AoO.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Re: The Easy Answer is:

Attacks of Opportunity do not provoke AoO.

Go on, back it up with actual rules.

Dare ya.

-Hyp.

 

[Darklone]

Here we go again...

 

[LokiDR]

Two characters: A and B. A attempts to grapple B. B responds with his AoO to try to disarm A. A hasn't used his AoO, and B has just provoked an AoO. A could choose to use his AoO to try another grapple. B can not take another AoO. Resolve in reverse order. Grapple, disarm if not grappled, grapple if not already.

Even if B had combat reflexes and a decent dex, he can not take another AoO against the same person.

 

[Hypersmurf]

... until 3.5...

-Hyp.