I'm pretty sure I've heard it said that you can perform trip, disarm, and sunder maneuvers as attacks of opportunity - however, does doing so provoke an attack of opportunity if you don't have the appropriate "Improved" feat?
Say, for example, someone without Improved Disarm attempts to disarm me. I get an attack of opportunity against him - and I decide to disarm him before he disarms me, using the disarm maneuver in place of my AoO. Do I provoke for doing that?
Yes.
Infinite provocation! Yes! That could be fun if your players are into it. I don't know the rule off the top of my head, but if you have an eye for initiative counts (ie, you won't forget) you should be fine.
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2. "No. It's not like that."
3. "No. It's not like that, because of this rule [cited]."
4. "Yes, it's like that.
5. "Yes, it's like that, because of this rule [cited]."
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I'm pretty sure I've heard it said that you can perform trip, disarm, and sunder maneuvers as attacks of opportunity - however, does doing so provoke an attack of opportunity if you don't have the appropriate "Improved" feat?
Say, for example, someone without Improved Disarm attempts to disarm me. I get an attack of opportunity against him - and I decide to disarm him before he disarms me, using the disarm maneuver in place of my AoO. Do I provoke for doing that?
If the combat maneuver in question can be used in place of an attack then yet, but if it requires a standard action then no. I do believe all the ones you listed qualify though.
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This can also occur (though at diminishing likely-hoods) with the Overflank feat. I've seen a creature get rended by about 8 attacks triggered by one original attack action thanks to combat reflexes and overflank being possessed by most/all of a party (2 had a 15-20 crit, the other 2 had a 19-20 crit). Apparently doing ~2.5x the creature's health in nonlethal will still gib the crap out of it ;)
But yeah, the sort-of chain-back-and-forth of those types of AoOs is kinda weird, but totally rules legal. I usually think of it more like "the guy with better reflexes won" than actual counter-counter-counter-counter-countering. This reasoning doesn't really work with overflank, though, so I think of that as synchronizing the attacks so that they "pinch" the person to cause maximum damage.
Outflank
Yes.
I think this was brought up during the Playtest, where it was posited that you can`t take an AoO-provoking action as your AoO, but that restriction never made it into the final...
Anyhow, the Maneuver that doesn`t belong on that list is Sunder.
Per RAW it is an Attack Action, which is a type of Standard Action.
Monks can substitute Sunders for Unarmed Strikes as part of a Flurry of Blows, but that is only when Full Attacking and not for AoO`s.
Important to note that it doesn't turn into an endless loop because of the restrictions on the number of AoO's a character can make.