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Message: <blockquote data-quote="two" data-source="post: 1406933" data-attributes="member: 9002">Why not?If you have a spiked gauntlet, or are a monk, or have improved unarmed strike (i.e. any of many ways to be a melee threat) and you load a heavy crossbow -- or retreive a scroll from a backback and read it -- you still "threaten" an area, because you are CAPABLE of making a melee attack into it.  The fact that you did something else during your action is immaterial.If the Wizard has a dagger out and CAN make an attack, but choses not to, he threatens, thus can help flank or make an AOO.Why don't characters with ranged weapons threaten?  It's not in the rules.  It's probably way overpowered if they could - a longbow would "threaten" the entire battlefield with its range.  It would be insane.And the Eskimo in the example had -- obviously -- combat reflexes.  The seal moved up to take a breath (into the Eskimo's threatened area) and, although flatfooted, the Eskimo strikes at the seal when the seal attempts to leave the threatered area.Remeber you CAN take AOO's while flatfooted with Combat Reflexes.  This ALONE indicates that "Threatening" can be passive; I mean, if a Cleric gets iniative and tries to run by a fighter with Combat Reflexes, the fighter can hit him with an AOO -- even if the fighter was not aware of the Cleric's presense until the moment he runs by.  Meaning -- you "threaten" squares even when you are not poking, slashing, looking for openings.  Otherwise, how could you get an instantaneous AOO vs. something while flatfooted (before you have made an action)? Unless you spend your entire life slashing and poking at 5' squares just in case -- that is.</blockquote>

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