does drawing a weapon provoke an attack of opportunity

This may seem like a dumb question, but in my groups we've always played that if you draw a weapon while in an opponent's threatened area it draws an attack of opportunity against you.

A player was asking me if this is mitigated by the Quick Draw feat. I went to look it up in the SRD and I could not even find the AoO part, which confused the heck out me.

I know we will continue to use this rule regardless, but I honestly always thought it was an actual official 3E rule. However. the move actions table on the SRD says "no" in the AoO column.

Can someone confirm this for me? Is this something that changed from 3.0 to 3.5? Has my group just suffered mass delusion and convinced ourselves it was a real rule?

I can't remember what the 3.0 rule was for it but in 3.5 drawing a weapon invokes no AoOs. I'm not sure why but this is something that I'm constantly looking up because I can't remember for sure what the rule is.

Maybe my and your confusion is because sheathing a weapon does draw an AoO? And sheathing and drawing are closely related.

Can someone confirm this for me? Is this something that changed from 3.0 to 3.5?

Drawing a weapon does not provoke in 3.5, nor in 3E.

-Hyp.

Drawing a weapon does not provoke in 3.5, nor in 3E.

-Hyp.

Thanks. I guess I should make this explicit as a house rule then.

We've been playing that way for 8 years, works for us.

You could change it and have it be some major innovation that spreads through your world.

"You know, I bet I could whip out my sword without closing my eyes and mooning my enemy."

Heh, it'd be darn hard to ever make an Iajutsu-based Fighter in a game where drawing a weapon provokes.

You could change it and have it be some major innovation that spreads through your world.

"You know, I bet I could whip out my sword without closing my eyes and mooning my enemy."

I know this is some kind of joke, but I don't get it. :-S

Heh, it'd be darn hard to ever make an Iajutsu-based Fighter in a game where drawing a weapon provokes.

Well, I ruled that Iajutsu (which in my campaigns is just another name for the quickdraw feat), mitigates the AoO. So it would be possible.

I know this is some kind of joke, but I don't get it.

As in, "If drawing your sword provokes an AoO, you're doing it wrong."

There just needs to be an NPC who teaches everyone in the world the right way to draw your sword, without dropping your guard, and you can start using the rule from the book without breaking continuity

-Hyp.