Impelling Disarm + Reach Weapon

[drsparnum]

Hi,

I'm playing a barbarian and plan to pick up the impelling disarm feat. I'd also like to get a ranseur (reach weapon) because it is good at disarming and other role-playing reasons.

Down the road, if I get the come and get me feat, and someone closes on me to attack me from 5-feet away, how do I still use the come and get me feat when my opponent is right next to me and I have a reach weapon? I was thinking about getting a spiked gauntlet...but...I believe it is a free action to switch my ranseur from 2 hands to 1 hand - free actions need to be done on my action and not my opponent's action.

I'd like a solution for this, and ideally not one where I have to end every round determining whether I have one or two hands on my ranseur as that could get tedious.

Thanks

[Wonderstell]

You're talking about the Impelling Disarm Rage Power, yes?

Spiked Armor works.
You could also dip one level into Warrior Poet Samurai so that you can move 5 ft before each AoO, placing you in range to attack with the Ranseur.

[LordKailas]

Options other than spiked armor are:

*Take the feat Improved Unarmed Strike: This will let you simply kick anyone that gets too close and continue to threaten the area around you even when your hands are occupied.

*Wear a Dwarven Bolder helmet: Sure, you take a -4 to hit for non-proficiency but otherwise it's the same as improved unarmed strike where you can headbutt anyone that gets too close.

*Gain a bite or talon(foot) attack: There are ways to do this via feats and/or class abilities but if you don't feel like going through all that there is a plethora of magic items that grant various natural weapons (as discussed in this thread). Of course since you're holding a two-handed weapon claw and slam attacks are no good (since your hands and arms are occupied) but anything else that doesn't use your hands and/or arms are fine. What's nice is that if you only attack with the natural weapon you don't even suffer the -5 for mixing natural weapons with manufactured weapons.

[drsparnum]

Thank you! I will go with armor spikes as it is the most straightforward. It does not fit my vision but warrior poet seems like an awesome combo with come and get me at level 14 plus...you can disrupt almost any full attack on yourself.