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Message: <blockquote data-quote="flun" data-source="post: 5276219" data-attributes="member: 93568">Hi,last night in my group we discussed an issue about grappling. The question was: If after escaping from grapple, can a character make further attacks?EDIT: We're playing 3.5e.The rules say (1):"Many of these maneuvers take the place of an attack (rather than being standard actions or move actions). If your base attack bonus allows you multiple attacks, you can attempt one of these maneuvers in place of each of your attacks, but you use successively lower attack bonuses to resolve any required opposed grapple checks."and"You can escape from an opponent's grasp by winning an opposed grapple check in place of making an attack."We agreed that this means that a combatant with several attacks due to a high BAB may try to escape from grapple as often as he has attacks (with successively lower attacks bonuses of course).Also the rules say:"If you escape, you finish the action by moving into any space adjacent to your opponent or opponents. This movement is part of the attack or standard action you used to escape the grapple." (1)The part in italic is in addition to the PHB.We did not agree what "you finish the action" exactly means. One opinion was that the combatants turn is over because action here means "full attack action". In this case there would not remain any further attacks. As a result if the combatant escapes from grapple on the first of his severals attacks then he would forfeit his remaining attacks.The other opinion was that the sentence primarily means the combatant is not on the same space as the other grappler(s) after escaping and that this ends just his attack he used to escape from grapple. This would mean that he can still perform any remaining attacks.Any opinions on this? If there is any reference, preferably by WotC that further clarifies this?Thank you!flun(1) I took the citations from "All About Grappling (Part Two)", <a href="http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/rg/20050308a" target="_blank">Rules of the Game: All About Grappling (Part Two)</a></blockquote>

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