brendan candries
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human cleric: improved unarmed strike, improved grapple
str domain: enlarge person
imagine a 10-feet wide corridor. the enlarged cleric (4 c's) has 4 opponents in front of him, 2 next to him (1 and 2) and 2 more behind those at 10 feet (3 and 4). He can attack all 4 thanks to reach by simply hitting them with unarmed strike.
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cc13
cc24
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What are his grappling options?
1. Attack of opportunity: not with feats
2. Grab: melee touch attack
3. Hold: deal damage
4. Maintain Grapple: To maintain a grapple for later rounds, you must move into the target's space. If you can't move, you can't maintain the grapple and must let go.
So it's perfectly viable to skip step 4? You could just squeeze your opponents and let go? Even those at 10 feet reach? Actually, since he can't move into the space of 1 and 2 he can just squeeze those 2 and let go each time also? Downside would be having to make the touch attack each time, more so with multiple attacks at later levels.
You might wonder if you could skip step 4 alltogether in all curcomstances?
"To maintain a grapple for later rounds, you must move into the target's space".
Is moving mandatory or an option?
str domain: enlarge person
imagine a 10-feet wide corridor. the enlarged cleric (4 c's) has 4 opponents in front of him, 2 next to him (1 and 2) and 2 more behind those at 10 feet (3 and 4). He can attack all 4 thanks to reach by simply hitting them with unarmed strike.
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cc13
cc24
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What are his grappling options?
1. Attack of opportunity: not with feats
2. Grab: melee touch attack
3. Hold: deal damage
4. Maintain Grapple: To maintain a grapple for later rounds, you must move into the target's space. If you can't move, you can't maintain the grapple and must let go.
So it's perfectly viable to skip step 4? You could just squeeze your opponents and let go? Even those at 10 feet reach? Actually, since he can't move into the space of 1 and 2 he can just squeeze those 2 and let go each time also? Downside would be having to make the touch attack each time, more so with multiple attacks at later levels.
You might wonder if you could skip step 4 alltogether in all curcomstances?
"To maintain a grapple for later rounds, you must move into the target's space".
Is moving mandatory or an option?