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Just a general feedback issue here, but I'm disappointed that the Advanced Class Guide doesn't feature a Cleric/Rogue hybrid. Using the base four classes (Fighter, Mage, Thief, Cleric) we have hybrids using all the other combinations, whether from this book or the other manuals. But nowhere do I find a class that can heal/buff and disarm traps. Why is this combination always forgotten?

Certainly the gods need followers who can spy on the other gods, or steal from them, or sabotage them... you get the point.

Please read your links before throwing them up in the thread.

Using any non-trip weapon is the same as tripping without a weapon, as the updated FAQ clearly states.

Oh jeez, not this again. Read the thread, and you'll see that SKR says that you can trip with a spear even though it is not a trip weapon. I'm not talking out of my back pocket here, I'm quoting one of the designers of the game.

From the FAQ:

If you want to make a trip combat maneuver, do you have to use a weapon with the trip special feature?

No. When making a trip combat maneuver, you don't have to use a weapon with the trip special feature. For example, you can trip with a longsword or an unarmed strike, even though those weapons don't have the trip special feature...

You can trip with a longsword or an unarmed strike. It's not tripping as an unarmed strike, it's tripping with the longsword.

From the Thread:

..."You can use a trip weapon to make trip attacks" does not mean "You can't use a non-trip weapon to make trip attacks." There's nothing in the Trip combat maneuver description that says you have to use a weapon with the trip special ability...

...Why is tripping with a longspear a broken combo? If you fail by 10, you're tripped, and on his turn your enemy can step up and full attack your unarmed prone dirt-biting regretful self...

You can trip with any weapon, including a spear. Tripping with a reach weapon can be done at reach, otherwise SKR wouldn't have said that the enemy could step up after a failed trip attempt.

The Polearm Master fighter archtype gains the ability of Sweeping Fend at level 13. It reads:

Sweeping Fend (Ex)

At 13th level, a polearm master can use any spear or pole arm to make a bull rush or trip maneuver, though he takes a –4 penalty to his CMB when making such attempts. Weapons with the trip property do not incur this penalty on trip maneuvers.

This ability replaces Weapon Training 3.

Does this mean that you normally can't make a trip maneuver with a polearm? Or is the penalty normally greater than -4?

If you can't normally make a trip maneuver with a polearm, why do some CRB polearms have the trip property? The Polearm Master archtype didn't appear until the APG.

You don't need a trip weapon to perform a trip maneuver, and I can't find anything in the rulebook which says you can't make a trip maneuver (or bull rush for that matter) with a polearm.