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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Patryn of Elvenshae" data-source="post: 5532440" data-attributes="member: 23094">Succinctly, yes to the first, no to the second.Charge allows you to make a melee attack, and a grapple attempt may be substituted for a melee attack, so that's fine.  You gain a +2 bonus on the melee touch attack to initiate the grapple.Power Attack applies a penalty to melee attacks (including the attack to start a grapple) and applies a bonus to melee damage rolls (which the touch attack to start a grapple does not have; it does "N / A" damage, and one of the key tenets of 3.XE is that "N / A" is different than "0").Afterwards,  the damage from grappling is not a result of a melee attack; it is the result of a grapple check, and therefore does not benefit from any bonuses which apply specifically to melee damage rolls.</blockquote>