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<blockquote data-quote="dcollins" data-source="post: 164710" data-attributes="member: 876">Well, that's not that long. First, I assume that for all cases 1-4, you mean that the two characters start out in adjacent squares (5 ft. apart).Basically your analysis is correct -- under the assumption that people do not threaten areas with unarmed attacks. That is how the Sage recently ruled on the matter. That is not how a great many (I think a majority) of people on these boards read the rulebook. The note to the table on PH p. 128 specifically says that weaponless attacks -- disarm, grapple, and trip -- can be used in attacks-of-opportunity (see Table 8-4, second-to-last note).Reading the book closely at this point, I would therefore have to disagree with the Sage. I think that unarmed people do threaten a space, and hence AOOs should be allowed in your cases #1 &amp; #3. Some people also always allow unarmed attacks while at the same time wielding a bow -- personally, I do not (so &quot;no AOO&quot; in cases #2 &amp; #4).Your main concern in #3, you have correct again. If a person truly does not threaten a space (however you adjudicate that), then they cannot take advantage of any AOO provocations.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="dcollins, post: 164710, member: 876"] Well, that's not that long. First, I assume that for all cases 1-4, you mean that the two characters start out in adjacent squares (5 ft. apart). Basically your analysis is correct -- [i]under the assumption that people do not threaten areas with unarmed attacks[/i]. That [i]is[/i] how the Sage recently ruled on the matter. That is [i]not[/i] how a great many (I think a majority) of people on these boards read the rulebook. The note to the table on PH p. 128 specifically says that weaponless attacks -- disarm, grapple, and trip -- can be used in attacks-of-opportunity (see Table 8-4, second-to-last note). Reading the book closely at this point, I would therefore have to disagree with the Sage. I think that unarmed people do threaten a space, and hence AOOs should be allowed in your cases #1 & #3. Some people also always allow unarmed attacks while at the same time wielding a bow -- personally, I do not (so "no AOO" in cases #2 & #4). Your main concern in #3, you have correct again. If a person truly does not threaten a space (however you adjudicate that), then they cannot take advantage of any AOO provocations. [/QUOTE]

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