Drawing a Weapon: AoO?

[el-remmen]

This may seem like a dumb question, but in my groups we've always played that if you draw a weapon while in an opponent's threatened area it draws an attack of opportunity against you.

A player was asking me if this is mitigated by the Quick Draw feat. I went to look it up in the SRD and I could not even find the AoO part, which confused the heck out me.

I know we will continue to use this rule regardless, but I honestly always thought it was an actual official 3E rule. However. the move actions table on the SRD says "no" in the AoO column.

Can someone confirm this for me? Is this something that changed from 3.0 to 3.5? Has my group just suffered mass delusion and convinced ourselves it was a real rule?

 

[Wednesday Boy]

I can't remember what the 3.0 rule was for it but in 3.5 drawing a weapon invokes no AoOs. I'm not sure why but this is something that I'm constantly looking up because I can't remember for sure what the rule is.

Maybe my and your confusion is because sheathing a weapon does draw an AoO? And sheathing and drawing are closely related.

 

[taliesin15]

Quick Draw enables you to draw a weapon as a free action, which I don't think causes an AoO--especially if the character in question has the initiative on the first round of combat.

 

[Elethiomel]

Has my group just suffered mass delusion and convinced ourselves it was a real rule?

This.

 

[krupintupple]

http://www.d20srd.org/srd/combat/actionsInCombat.htm#moveActions

might find this helpful.

 

[Jhaelen]

IIRC, you only provoke AOO if you get stuff from your backpack. Drawing a weapon should be fine.

 

[Hypersmurf]

Can someone confirm this for me? Is this something that changed from 3.0 to 3.5?

Drawing a weapon does not provoke in 3.5, nor in 3E.

-Hyp.

 

[el-remmen]

Drawing a weapon does not provoke in 3.5, nor in 3E.

-Hyp.

Thanks. I guess I should make this explicit as a house rule then.

We've been playing that way for 8 years, works for us.

 

[blargney the second]

You could change it and have it be some major innovation that spreads through your world.

"You know, I bet I could whip out my sword without closing my eyes and mooning my enemy."

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

Heh, it'd be darn hard to ever make an Iajutsu-based Fighter in a game where drawing a weapon provokes.