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Beelzebub1111
2010-03-16, 03:16 PM
Let's say an opponent drops an item so that they can draw another one and attack if they don't have the quick draw feat. Could you pick up the item that they dropped? or would you have to move into their square first?

Schylerwalker
2010-03-16, 03:42 PM
Well, considering you can attack opponents in adjacent squares without moving into their squares (Unless you're tiny or smaller), I'd say, yeah, you can. You might provoke an attack of opportunity as you reach into their threat range to grab a sword off the ground though.

Sinfire Titan
2010-03-16, 03:55 PM
Well, considering you can attack opponents in adjacent squares without moving into their squares (Unless you're tiny or smaller), I'd say, yeah, you can. You might provoke an attack of opportunity as you reach into their threat range to grab a sword off the ground though.

If they are unarmed and have no natural weapons, they can't take AoOs without Improved Unarmed Strike. In an arena setting, disarming them and stealing their weapon is usually a safe way to neutralize a noncaster outright.

jmbrown
2010-03-16, 03:55 PM
Picking up an item is part of manipulating an item and you can do that with anything within your reach as a move action that incurs an AoO.

TheCountAlucard
2010-03-16, 04:05 PM
If they are unarmed and have no natural weapons, they can't take AoOs without Improved Unarmed Strike. In an arena setting, disarming them and stealing their weapon is usually a safe way to neutralize a noncaster outright.He could get his AoOs if he's wearing gauntlets, though, and enough of the suits of armor come with a pair of gauntlets, free.

Sinfire Titan
2010-03-16, 04:20 PM
He could get his AoOs if he's wearing gauntlets, though, and enough of the suits of armor come with a pair of gauntlets, free.

Only if the DM rules them as Simple weapons in their own right, which means no Monks using them. Oh, and:


This metal glove lets you deal lethal damage rather than nonlethal damage with unarmed strikes. A strike with a gauntlet is otherwise considered an unarmed attack. The cost and weight given are for a single gauntlet. Medium and heavy armors (except breastplate) come with gauntlets.

Beelzebub1111
2010-03-17, 11:40 AM
Well, I was talking about them dropping a weapon to draw another one and attack in the same turn, not just dropping a weapon, but thank you for the info.