Reach Weapons - a thought...

[Greenfield]

What is the stats on a Bohemian Ear Spoon anyways. Is that like Riddick killing a man with a cup in The Chronicles of Riddick?

Depends. Are we talking left-handed Bohemian Ear spoon, or the right handed one?

The right handed one works like an Atlatl, only smaller. The left handed one is closer to a Woomera, but without the range advantage. And again, it's a Tiny weapon.

[sblock]If you find yourself walking funny, it's because I've been pulling your leg, which is now consequently longer.

Side note: Atlatl and Woomera really are weapons.[/sblock]

 

[TKDB]

What is the stats on a Bohemian Ear Spoon anyways. Is that like Riddick killing a man with a cup in The Chronicles of Riddick?

Bohemian earspoon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Essentially, it's a funny name for a particular variant of the ranseur.

And as far as causing opponents to incurr AOOs, are there any core ways? I kinda hate adding a bajillion splat books. Causes problems like vow of poverty...

Nope. Pretty much the best you can manage with core-only is Combat Reflexes + reach.

Honestly, I find that 3.x plays much, much better with the addition of plenty of splats; you just need to be selective about what is and isn't allowed from said splats. If a particular spell/feat/PrC/whatever causes problems, ban that particular thing, not the entire book it's in. Or for a bit more proactive approach, use non-core material on a whitelist basis: players are free to look in splats for their stuff, but they need to run any non-core material they take by the DM first to make sure there's no stinky cheese afoot.

Ultimately, the value in terms of variety of viable concepts added by allowing lots of splats tends to outweigh any potential min-maxing issues as long as players and DM are being halfways reasonable. Non-core books even open up options that help to tone down some of the more problematic classes. For example, I always require druids in any game I run to use the shapeshifter variant from PHB2.

 

[Greenfield]

Bohemian earspoon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Essentially, it's a funny name for a particular variant of the ranseur.

Is someone pulling my leg? I thought I just made that one up.

 

[TKDB]

Is someone pulling my leg? I thought I just made that one up.

Nope, it's fairly well-attested in a variety of sources. Google it.
Though upon further investigation, it seems I was a bit mistaken by the description on Wikipedia -- the side spikes apparently aren't anywhere near as long as on a ranseur, so it's really more like a regular old spear.