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Message: <blockquote data-quote="OSD" data-source="post: 4486605" data-attributes="member: 75033">Here's my house rule on disarming1)  You have to have one of these conditions met or it's Str/Dex -10 vs Fort/Reflex (whichever is higher)Target is proneYou have combat advantage against the target (dazed, blinded, etc...)The target is bloodiedThe target is grabbed by youIt's Str/Dex -5 vs Fort/Reflex whichever is higher if a condition is met.You can automatically disarm a helpless/unconscious/dying creature with a standard action if you are adjacent or occupy the same square as the creature.My NPCs-Mobs only have only disarmed my PCs for three reason.1)  It's part of the NPC-Mobs characteristic and is intelligent enough to do it.2)  The NPC-Mobs does not want to deal lethal damage to the PCs.3)  One of my PCs got a hold of an item that the NPCs-Mobs does NOT want to give up and they do everything in their power to get it back.Disarming does not break the game in anyway since grabs and improvised attacks can still be used.  The book encourage players to think more than just the powers and the rules.  Once your players learns to improvise, it will be a lot more fun and hilarious (maybe a little gruesome too).  Ever seen a ranger armed only with a length of rope and do some really scary stuff?  Grabbed the goblin, got his ally to flank, and then rope garrote.  Took me a while to figure out how to make it work mechanic-wise until I remember a bugbear doing the exact same thing.  Disarm != target become useless, well, it does if the PC has a int score of 4 or something.  I had a warlock who stuffed a small creature into a sack because the creature have resistance to hit attack after readying his bedroll, grabbed the creature and then do the stuffing, follow by an athletic throw into river.  Took him 4 rounds, but he removed a threat where he would have dealt low single digit damage had he just attacked it.  Disarm should neither be encourage or discourage, but making the PCs improvise and think "WTF!?  What do I do now?  That thing is going to eat my face!" helps with the immersion factor.  You can also throw in some XP or some other rewards for the improvisation.</blockquote>

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