John Campbell
2008-02-13, 08:37 PM
I was just refreshing my memory of how my new guisarme works, and noticed something in the tripping rules:
Make an unarmed melee touch attack against your target. This provokes an attack of opportunity from your target as normal for unarmed attacks.
The highlighted language is unique to Trip... other special attacks like Disarm just flat state that they provoke. Does it mean that unarmed trips provoke only because they're unarmed attacks? (That makes some sense, I guess... tripping with a weapon explicitly doesn't provoke.)
It would then follow that if a character who has Improved Unarmed Strike (and doesn't have Improved Trip), and whose unarmed attacks therefore don't provoke, attempts an unarmed trip, it doesn't provoke. Is that right?
Does it even count as an unarmed trip if you have Improved Unarmed Strike, or is it tripping with a weapon, even though some of those rules obviously don't apply? (I drop my hands to avoid being counter-tripped!)
Make an unarmed melee touch attack against your target. This provokes an attack of opportunity from your target as normal for unarmed attacks.
The highlighted language is unique to Trip... other special attacks like Disarm just flat state that they provoke. Does it mean that unarmed trips provoke only because they're unarmed attacks? (That makes some sense, I guess... tripping with a weapon explicitly doesn't provoke.)
It would then follow that if a character who has Improved Unarmed Strike (and doesn't have Improved Trip), and whose unarmed attacks therefore don't provoke, attempts an unarmed trip, it doesn't provoke. Is that right?
Does it even count as an unarmed trip if you have Improved Unarmed Strike, or is it tripping with a weapon, even though some of those rules obviously don't apply? (I drop my hands to avoid being counter-tripped!)