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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tellerve" data-source="post: 4432283" data-attributes="member: 2412">I would say he can sustain minor, and still keep his -4 to the opponents escape check and then have himself a move and a standard.  He could decide to try and move himself and the strangled pc.  Or he could kick/punch/whatever an adjacent enemy.  Or if you gave him a different weapon he could use that.Otherwise he would spend his standard action to cinch in the garrote tighter and make it hurt (ie a standard action doing the damage), or he could let go altogether and pull out his heapin' big morningstar and go to town.EDIT: Ya know, after re-reading it, it does make it seem that he has to use his standard action to keep the strangle and all its effects going.  I don't know if I like this, as I like the possibilties above for him, instead of him just continually choking the victim.  I especially like the idea of him move the character with him back somewhere to finish him off, perhaps without others knowing.  And moving a grabbed character is a standard action and if I went with standard sustain is the only way to go he wouldn't be able to do that.  And that doesn't seem as interesting to me.Tellerve</blockquote>