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<blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 5728943" data-attributes="member: 996">There's not really a great way to do that.&nbsp; Readying is a little too specific, and a reaction, in any case.&nbsp; So threatening a hostage would mechanically be little more than that: a threat, with not much to back it up, grabbed or otherwise.OTOH, there are monsters that grab enemies, and use them as 'shields' via specific powers.&nbsp; A 'hostage taking' power would not be at all hard to dream up, I'd be surprised if there aren't some humanoid monster that already does it.Besides, grabbing a hostage would mean /not/ hurting them, so as far as it goes, grabbing a helples victim with the standard grab is fine.&nbsp; The victim, if statted out at all, probably has no hope of escape and would be killed by an powered-up damaging Grab, anyway.Again, it's not supposed to be an action that stacks up to basic attacks or at-wills.&nbsp; It's there in case grabbing is situationally so desireable as to sacrifice a standard action to do it.&nbsp; So anyone can do it, not so anyone can do it /well/.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tony Vargas, post: 5728943, member: 996"] There's not really a great way to do that. Readying is a little too specific, and a reaction, in any case. So threatening a hostage would mechanically be little more than that: a threat, with not much to back it up, grabbed or otherwise. OTOH, there are monsters that grab enemies, and use them as 'shields' via specific powers. A 'hostage taking' power would not be at all hard to dream up, I'd be surprised if there aren't some humanoid monster that already does it. Besides, grabbing a hostage would mean /not/ hurting them, so as far as it goes, grabbing a helples victim with the standard grab is fine. The victim, if statted out at all, probably has no hope of escape and would be killed by an powered-up damaging Grab, anyway. Again, it's not supposed to be an action that stacks up to basic attacks or at-wills. It's there in case grabbing is situationally so desireable as to sacrifice a standard action to do it. So anyone can do it, not so anyone can do it /well/. [/QUOTE]

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