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<blockquote data-quote="Scion" data-source="post: 1765736" data-attributes="member: 5777">SRD:Improved Grab (Ex): To use this ability, a dire lion must hit with its bite attack. It can then attempt to start a grapple as a free action without provoking an attack of opportunity. If it wins the grapple check, it establishes a hold and can rake.The highlighted section is the general rake description being overridden by the specific lion example <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Much in the same way that the pounce ability also overrides the general rake ability.This guy is just plain full of exceptions!As a note, this is the hags ability from the srd:Improved Grab (Ex): To use this ability, an annis must hit a Large or smaller opponent with a claw attack. It can then attempt to start a grapple as a free action without provoking an attack of opportunity.note the missing sentence.Either it was a bad job of putting in too much text, or it was meant to be an exception. As pounce is already an exception it seems that it could very well be that the lion is simply that big of monstrous guy.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Scion, post: 1765736, member: 5777"] SRD: Improved Grab (Ex): To use this ability, a dire lion must hit with its bite attack. It can then attempt to start a grapple as a free action without provoking an attack of opportunity. [B]If it wins the grapple check, it establishes a hold and can rake.[/B] The highlighted section is the general rake description being overridden by the specific lion example ;) Much in the same way that the pounce ability also overrides the general rake ability. This guy is just plain full of exceptions! As a note, this is the hags ability from the srd: Improved Grab (Ex): To use this ability, an annis must hit a Large or smaller opponent with a claw attack. It can then attempt to start a grapple as a free action without provoking an attack of opportunity. note the missing sentence. Either it was a bad job of putting in too much text, or it was meant to be an exception. As pounce is already an exception it seems that it could very well be that the lion is simply that big of monstrous guy. [/QUOTE]

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