Grapple checks?

[Wolffenjugend]

Does a bonus from spells to attack rolls also apply to grapple checks? For example, a wizard cast Greater Heroism which provides a +4 bonus to attack rolls, skill checks, saves, and ability checks. Does it also apply to grapple checks?

 

[Chronosome]

Hmm. I'd rule yes, personally. But officially, it doesn't look like that's the case.

 

[Kershek]

I would say yes because a grapple has a strength or dex check which is an ability check.

 

[Ferox4]

I, too, will throw my hat in and say that I would allow it. However, if a PC also has Bull's Strength running I may not allow it.

 

[Flyspeck23]

Does a bonus from spells to attack rolls also apply to grapple checks? For example, a wizard cast Greater Heroism which provides a +4 bonus to attack rolls, skill checks, saves, and ability checks. Does it also apply to grapple checks?

(Greater) Heroism doesn't grant a bonus to ability checks, just to attack rolls, saves and skill checks.
OTOH, a grapple check includes the BAB and is "like a melee attack", and "you make a melee touch attack" (both quotes: PHB, p.156). So yes, Greater Heroism grants a bonus on grapple check.

I, too, will throw my hat in and say that I would allow it. However, if a PC also has Bull's Strength running I may not allow it.

Why not? Even if Greater Heroism granted a bonus to ability checks, it would be a morale bonus, not an enhancement bonus like the one from Bull's Strength. So they'd stack.
And as it is, Greater Heroism improves the attack roll, and Bull's Strength your strength score, so a character would get the benefits of both spells even if it was the same kind of bonus.

 

[Ferox4]

You are correct. I missed the morale bonus aspect.