slaughterj
Mongoose
foxworthy said:Here's another section of the FAQ I just noticed... I really wish I had noticed this earlier...
D&D FAQ said:Is sunder a special standard action or is it a melee
attack variant? It has its own entry on the actions table, but the text describing it refers to it as a melee attack. Is sunder a melee attack only in the sense of hitting something with a melee weapon, or is sunder a true melee attack?
Sunder is a special kind of melee attack. If it were a special standard action, its description would say so (as the descriptive text for the Manyshot feat says). If you make a full attack, and you have multiple attacks from a high base attack bonus, you can sunder more than once, or attack and sunder, or some other combination of attacking and sundering.
Sunder does indeed get its own entry in Table 8-2: Actions in Combat in the Player’s Handbook. It needs one because unlike a regular melee attack, sunder provokes an attack of opportunity (although not if you have the Improved Sunder feat)
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You can also disarm, grapple, or trip as a melee attack (or attack of opportunity).
Hope this helps as well.
That appears to resolve one issue, based on the last line all those actions appear to be an option for an AoO, which makes sense when you think about it as I mentioned in my post just above.