weapon cord, and disarm

[Human Fighter]

I want to know what happens if a weapon you have attached to a weapon cord is removed by disarm or something similar while keeping the cord intact. Can you simply get it back by spending the appropriate action regardless, or are the rules to be interpreted that a disarm means they didn't have the ability or choose the option to then take possession.

Weapon cord cover dropping and disarm, but what if someone else picks it up or can use steal or something?

Monk disarmed my bow while attached to my cord and confusion happened as to if I simply get it back due to the disarm rule being explicitly mentioned, or if there are other circumstances to consider.

[Flaming Duck]

Weapon Cords allow you to retrieve dropped/disarmed items as a move action without provoking AoOs. As long as the cord is intact, as in: not sundered, you should be able to spend a move to do this.

As far as I know, the rules are less clear if the enemy has possession of your weapon with the cord still intact. I would surmise that, as long as the cord is intact, the enemy cannot move further from you than 5ft without dropping the item or performing a Drag maneuver. Additionally, you could still attempt to retrieve it as a move-equivalent action that does not provoke an AoO, but it might take a CMB check to pull it away from the bad guy. Some may pointedly argue that, since CMB checks are generally standard actions, you'd need to use a standard in this case, but you still benefit from having a rope tied to it...so some GM judgement there.

[pocsaclypse]

This has been previously discussed here and here but unfortunately there wasn't a unanimous decision. Personally, I treat it the same way Flaming Duck suggests, though I do treat the CMB check to retrieve it as a standard action.

[Mark A. Nattress]

If the enemy picks it up (provoking an attack of opportunity) then it should follow the normal disarm rules to get it back. As a GM I'd likely give a circumstance bonus to the person with the weapon cord (probably +2).

CRB 403 wrote:

One handy rule to keep under your belt is the Fiat Rule—simply grant a player a +2 or a –2 bonus or penalty to a die roll if no one at the table is precisely sure how a situation might be handled by the rules.

[Claxon]

Well, it's simply until you get to the specific situation where it's someone performing an unarmed disarm maneuver.

When someone disarms you with a weapon, they cannot pickup the weapon as it is not dropped. You can recover it on your turn as a move action.

If someone disarms without a weapon, they could possibly pick it up, but the item isn't dropped. How to run it isn't clear. I would honestly make them sunder the weapon cord first before they could have a hold of the weapon just to make it easier. You knock it out of their hand, but you can't grab it because it never falls on the ground for you to pick up.

But it's honestly not clear, and could go many ways.