Help with Combat Stability... [Archive] - Wizards Community

Help with Combat Stability... [Archive] - Wizards Community

Post/Author/DateTime Post
Ocelot_Warrior
02-19-08, 03:41 AM Ok, Combat Stability out of PHBII. The feat reads "You gain a +4 bonus on checks or rolls to resist bull rush, grapple, overrun, and trip attempts made against you."

The main part I am interested in is the grappling, since the character I just created is a fighter/monk, who will soon be moving into reaping mauler. So I am trying to improve his grapple as much as possible.

The way I read it, the bonus will NOT apply for when YOU initiate a grapple check, but if your OPPONENT initiates the grapple you get the bonus. That part is pretty easy to understand.

SO just to clarify you would apply the bonus when your opponent is trying to escape a grapple or pin seeing how it is the opponent that is initiating the check and you are trying to RESIST that attempt.
jaelis
02-19-08, 07:53 AM Personally, I would read it as applying only to the opposed grapple check made to avoid being grappled in the first place, since that is what I think of as a "grapple attempt."

The roll to prevent an opponent from escaping is certainly a grapple check, but it doesn't much sound like you're attempting to grapple him, and it certainly doesn't fit the nature of the feat.
Firedale
02-20-08, 08:12 AM Only checks made against you... not ones you make against others, because it's for resistance only, not the agressive form (initiating yourself)

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Ocelot_Warrior 02-19-08, 03:41 AM	Ok, Combat Stability out of PHBII. The feat reads "You gain a +4 bonus on checks or rolls to resist bull rush, grapple, overrun, and trip attempts made against you." The main part I am interested in is the grappling, since the character I just created is a fighter/monk, who will soon be moving into reaping mauler. So I am trying to improve his grapple as much as possible. The way I read it, the bonus will NOT apply for when YOU initiate a grapple check, but if your OPPONENT initiates the grapple you get the bonus. That part is pretty easy to understand. SO just to clarify you would apply the bonus when your opponent is trying to escape a grapple or pin seeing how it is the opponent that is initiating the check and you are trying to RESIST that attempt.
jaelis 02-19-08, 07:53 AM	Personally, I would read it as applying only to the opposed grapple check made to avoid being grappled in the first place, since that is what I think of as a "grapple attempt." The roll to prevent an opponent from escaping is certainly a grapple check, but it doesn't much sound like you're attempting to grapple him, and it certainly doesn't fit the nature of the feat.
Firedale 02-20-08, 08:12 AM	Only checks made against you... not ones you make against others, because it's for resistance only, not the agressive form (initiating yourself)