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<blockquote data-quote="Stalker0" data-source="post: 409372" data-attributes="member: 5889">I have to disagree. I think that one of the main arguments is that you actually cannot trip with a staff. And the implication of that is someone using a staff would have to drop it to trip the person.Again I believe the staff should have been added to the tripable weapons category, and if you believe that simply house rule it. We don't need to start trying to pull the rules in 5 different directions when one house rule will do.As to the argument about the possible AOO while armed, as far as I can tell the only time an unarmed melee touch attack does not provoke an AOO is when it is holding a spell, and &quot;maybe&quot; when the person has improved unarmed strike. The reason an AOO is not provoked by the trip action in the PH is because they didn't want tripping with a weapon to also provoke an AOO. However, that doesn't ignore the fact that making a melee touch attack unarmed DOES provoke an AOO.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Stalker0, post: 409372, member: 5889"] I have to disagree. I think that one of the main arguments is that you actually cannot trip with a staff. And the implication of that is someone using a staff would have to drop it to trip the person. Again I believe the staff should have been added to the tripable weapons category, and if you believe that simply house rule it. We don't need to start trying to pull the rules in 5 different directions when one house rule will do. As to the argument about the possible AOO while armed, as far as I can tell the only time an unarmed melee touch attack does not provoke an AOO is when it is holding a spell, and "maybe" when the person has improved unarmed strike. The reason an AOO is not provoked by the trip action in the PH is because they didn't want tripping with a weapon to also provoke an AOO. However, that doesn't ignore the fact that making a melee touch attack unarmed DOES provoke an AOO. [/QUOTE]

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