Can anyone help me understand the rules how this item works?
It states the following
Once per day, after it has been worn for at least 1 hour, the mask can be loosed to fly from the wearer's face. It travels up to 50 feet away from the wearer and attacks a target assigned to it. The grinning skull mask makes a touch attack against the target based on the wearer's base attack bonus. If the attack succeeds, the target must make a DC 20 Fortitude save or take 130 points of damage, as if affected by a finger of death spell. If the target succeeds on his saving throw, he nevertheless takes 3d6+13 points of damage. After attacking (whether successful or not), the mask flies back to its user. The mask has AC 16, 10 hit points, and hardness 6.
The description says it is a ranged touch attack, but it also lists AC, hardness and hit points. Does that mean the item would provoke an attack of opportunity if attacking creatures with reach? Or is that only if a sunder attack is made against the item?
Ha, both answers are exactly why I am unsure about this item. I just don't understand why they give the item an AC when it acts as a ranged touch attack. Why would a ranged touch attack provoke if you are doing it 50ft away? I know in melee it would provoke, but the item is being activated at distance (optimally).
After reading it again I think I've figured it out. The mask makes the attack as a touch attack. I mistook it for a ranged touch attack by the wearer of the mask. No size is provided for the mask, but diminutive makes the most sense, so the mask would provoke because it must enter the creatures square to attack.
I guess I just need to be careful about who or what I use it on. Otherwise I would be spending 1 PP every time it gets busted in order to have Make Whole cast on it.
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I'd vote for "it doesn't provoke", but if someone sunders it they needed AC, Hardness and HP.
It is an object that flies from here to there and back. Maybe it don't need to enter the target square but surely it provoke while it move.
A possible precedent:
Spectral Hand
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A ghostly hand shaped from your life force materializes and moves as you desire, allowing you to deliver low-level, touch range spells at a distance. On casting the spell, you lose 1d4 hit points that return when the spell ends (even if it is dispelled), but not if the hand is destroyed. (The hit points can be healed as normal.) For as long as the spell lasts, any touch range spell of 4th level or lower that you cast can be delivered by the spectral hand. The spell gives you a +2 bonus on your melee touch attack roll, and attacking with the hand counts normally as an attack. The hand always strikes from your direction. The hand cannot flank targets like a creature can. After it delivers a spell, or if it goes beyond the spell range or goes out of your sight, the hand returns to you and hovers.The hand is incorporeal and thus cannot be harmed by normal weapons. It has improved evasion (half damage on a failed Reflex save and no damage on a successful save), your save bonuses, and an AC of 22 (+8 size, +4 natural armor). Your Intelligence modifier applies to the hand's AC as if it were the hand's Dexterity modifier. The hand has 1 to 4 hit points, the same number that you lost in creating it.
It do something very similar to what the mask do and it provoke while moving.