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Message: <blockquote data-quote="rlphay" data-source="post: 1071669" data-attributes="member: 7241">Actually if you read the SRD in the section under Attacks of Opportunity you will find the following:Threatened Squares: You threaten all squares into which you can make a melee attack, even when it is not your action. Generally, that means everything in all squares adjacent to your space (including diagonally). An enemy that takes certain actions while in a threatened square provokes an attack of opportunity from you. If you’re unarmed, you don’t normally threaten any squares and thus can’t make attacks of opportunity.Reach Weapons: Most creatures of Medium or smaller size have a reach of only 5 feet. This means that they can make melee attacks only against creatures up to 5 feet (1 square) away. However, Small and Medium creatures wielding reach weapons threaten more squares than a typical creature. In addition, most creatures larger than Medium have a natural reach of 10 feet or more.Provoking an Attack of Opportunity: Two kinds of actions can provoke attacks of opportunity: moving out of a threatened square and performing an action within a threatened square.It states that you only provoke when you do an action while in a threatened square. And if you do not threaten a square then you can not take an AoO.In your example with say the disarm or trip, those are reactions that you get when someone attemps those on you and fails.</blockquote>