Questions tagged [combat-maneuver]
For questions about combat maneuvers, which refer to any martial action in combat that may not directly result in damage but some other form of debilitation or advantage that allies can capitalize on.
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'Shove' feats and 'shoving' weapons
In 2E of Pathfinder - there is a number of fighter feats that allow to automatically shove opponent in certain conditions, icluding Agressive Block and Brutish Shove.
But, at the same time Shove as ...
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How do I calculate my Maneuver save DC if I use a Battle Master Maneuver while in Wild Shape?
If I have a suitable Battle Master Maneuver (from three levels of Fighter, or through Superior Technique fighting style from one level of Fighter or the Fighting Initiate feat) and I use it when I ...
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Can CMD be aided, directly and/or by aiding AC?
Can one Aid another's CMD?
Let's look at two possible ways, and then a twist.
1. Can one aid CMD directly?
Aid Another lists several uses, of which CMD isn't one of them:
If you succeed, your friend ...
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Can you still use Commander’s Strike if the only attack available to forego is an attack against an ally?
At 3rd level, My Battlemaster Fighter chose Commander's Strike for one of his maneuvers. He is a Dex-based fighter and uses shortsword and dagger in melee. This previous question was whether he ...
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Commander's Strike and meaning of 'forgo'
In tonight's session my fighter just leveled to 3rd and declared as a Battlemaster; he selected Commander's Strike as one of his combat superiority maneuvers:
When you take the Attack action on your ...
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Is proficiency needed to Trip with a weapon?
Can a Wizard use a Guisarme to Trip an enemy in a non-adjacent square?
Weapons only list the proficiency for attacks (CRB p278):
Melee attack modifier = Strength modifier (or optionally Dexterity for ...
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Is there a way to use Dex or Acrobatics for Trip?
I think I have seen a way to Trip without investing in Strength.
Right now I can only find Tumbling Opportunist, which requires 10th level and can only be used once per minute, and Improved Knockdown, ...
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Does a spell caster need to hold onto their arcane focus when concentrating on a spell?
The long-short of it is that I want to use the maneuver Disarming Attack to make a mage drop their arcane focus. While I know this will delay their spell casting (as it requires an action to pick up ...
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How are armor spikes used in a grapple?
Armor spikes' page says:
Armor spikes deal extra piercing damage (see “spiked armor” on Table:
Weapons) on a successful grapple attack. The spikes count as a martial
weapon.
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Can the Battle Master’s Ambush Maneuver be used more than once on the same roll?
I am currently running a Fighter 5 with the Battle Master subclass. Later, I plan to multi class 3 levels into rogue, possibly taking the Assassin subclass for the free crit on surprise.
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Can I legally refer to Maneuvers under the OGL?
The Battle Master subclass is not in the Systems Reference Document. I am designing a Wild West supplement for d&d-5e, to be published on DriveThruRPG, and I want to add a few Gun-Themed maneuvers ...
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Do you actually have to move with a Bull Rush target to move them more than 5 feet?
I kept seeing people mention that you cannot move a target more than 5 feet with a Bull Rush without moving with them. This confused me as Pathfinder's Bull Rush rules make no mention of such a thing.
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How do the multiple attack rolls of Whirlwind Attack work with Lunging Attack's bonus to the attack's damage roll?
At 11th level the Ranger subclass Hunter can get Whirlwind Attack:
You can use your action to make a melee attack against any number of creatures within 5 feet of you, with a separate attack roll for ...
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Can I use Maneuvering Strike benefiting my mount, as a battle master?
Here's my scenario, I'm on a mount. I make a weapon attack and use Maneuvering Strike:
When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can [...] choose a friendly creature who can see or hear you. ...
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Extra attack timing: can it be interrupted?
I am trying to figure out if an extra attack can be interrupted by another effect and terminate the attack action before all attacks are completed.
The specific example I'm dealing with is thus:
I ...
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Can Aggressive Block move the enemy in any direction?
This came up in game last night: the Fighter, with Aggressive Block, Shield Blocks an attack. The Fighter and their attacker are in a narrow corridor - here is what the map looks like, where the ...
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Do bonuses to grappling CMD apply to enemy's rolls to escape grapple?
Human alternate fighter favored class bonus states:
Add +1 to the fighter’s CMD when resisting two combat maneuvers of the
character’s choice.
If I want to make one of the choices to be grapple ...
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Does a Gymnast have to use the Trip action to gain panache?
Swashbucklers with the Gymnast style gain panache when they Trip, Shove, or Grapple.
Does it have to be an actual Trip action, or would Improved Knockdown work?
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Can a Quick Toss also be a Trip Attack? [duplicate]
The Battle Master has two maneuvers that appear to work synergistically. Supposing a player has two superiority dice, may they perform both the the Quick Toss maneuver (TCoE) and Trip Attack (PHB)?
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Can the superiority die from ‘Superior Technique’ be used for newly learned combat maneuvers?
A fighter receives a superiority die for choosing Superior Technique fighting style, then reaches level 3 and chooses Martial Archetype; Battle Master.
Can the superiority die from Superior Technique ...
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How does the Battle Master fighter's Sweeping Attack maneuver interact with additional damage dealt on a "hit"?
How does the Battle Master fighter's Sweeping Attack maneuver work with extra damage, both rolled and static?
The description of the Battle Master fighter's Sweeping Attack maneuver states (PHB, p. 74;...
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Does a character remain in a martial stance they no longer know?
A Tome of Battle stance can be initiated as a swift action, and "remains in effect indefinitely...until you change to another stance you know as a swift action." (p. 38)
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Does the Quick Toss maneuver work with a Magic Stone?
The Quick Toss maneuver from Tashas Cauldron indicates a ranged attack can be made with a bonus action for expending a superiority die.
Could you quickly toss a Magic Stone? How much damage would it ...
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Does an Awesome Blow count as an attack?
Awesome Blow (Ex)
At 16th level, the brawler can as a standard action perform an awesome
blow combat maneuver against a corporeal creature of her size or
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Do the attacks from Polearm Master and the Brace Maneuver stack?
Polearm Master allows a PC to make an opportunity attack when an enemy enters within reach.
With the Brace manoeuvre, you can use a reaction to make an attack, expending a superiority die.
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Can the Grappling Strike maneuver option be used with the Thorn Whip cantrip to grapple a creature from up to 30 feet away?
Grappling Strike is a maneuver option for Battle Master fighters (and others with access to maneuvers) that reads (Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, p. 42; emphasis mine):
Immediately after you hit a ...
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Do the levels at which Battle Master fighters gain more maneuvers refer to class level, or character level?
The Battle Master subclass for fighters says that you can get more maneuvers at different levels:
You learn two additional maneuvers of your choice at 7th, 10th, and 15th level. Each time you learn ...
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Can I Feint while Swallowed Whole?
Sethix the Swashbuckler has been Swallowed Whole by a T-Rex. In order to help cut his way out, Sethix wants to Feint to gain Panache, since he is a Fencer Swashbuckler. Is this something Sethix can do?...
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How effective is Spell Shield Magus Arcana in preventing attacks of opportunity from hitting?
My favorite class in Pathfinder is a Magus. I'm considering playing a reckless, Dex-based, magus who regularly carries out combat maneuvers. However, I don't want to allocate so many feats to improved ...
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Can weapons with Reach be used to attack "through" willing allies? [duplicate]
I'm picturing the Greek Phalanx formation, where soldiers were arranged in rows and the men in Row B or even Row C could attack the enemy by thrusting their spears between the soldiers in Row A.
Can ...
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Mounted Combat: Ride-by attack + Overrun possible?
Can a Cavalier declare a Ride-by attack and then use their mount to overrun the target (thus continuing the movement through the enemies square)?
Is it enough for the Cavalier to have the Ride-by ...
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Are there two versions of a 'shove', and if so, what further effects do the different versions possibly allow? [closed]
As I see it there are two versions of 'shoving' in 5e: a physical verion and a magical version.
The physical version allows pushing an opponent backwards OR knocking them prone, while the magic ...
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How does Blink work versus a readied action in this PvP scenario?
Bit of an odd one but I want rulings for this scenario:
Yes this is PVP and it ended up been fun at the table, and no one was upset.
Playing a Level 7 College of Swords Bard with a Homebrew Magic ...
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Sundering or dispelling Wondrous items that function as limbs
If there were to be a character that used either a clockwork arm or a necrograft limb, to replace an existing arm or leg, could an enemy that wanted to disable the ability or affects of that magic ...
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Archer's Sunder
The Archer's Trick shot allows them to sunder. However the rules for damaging objects states "Objects take half damage from ranged weapons (unless the weapon is a siege engine or something ...
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Does turning around count as moving for triggering Brace?
My fighter took Superior Technique as Fighting Style. This gives me the the Combat Maneuver Brace, which says (emphasis mine):
When a creature you can see moves into the reach you have with the melee ...
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Can the Battle Master fighter's Precision Attack maneuver be used on a melee spell attack?
I've searched here and in various reference books but can't find the answer to this specific question.
The description of the Battle Master fighter's Precision Attack maneuver (PHB, p. 74) states that ...
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Does losing Dex to AC also apply to CMD?
Relevant rules:
CMD:
...Any penalties to a creature's AC also apply to its CMD. A flat-footed creature does not add its Dexterity bonus to its CMD...
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Can I swap a maneuver known with another one if I have te requisite before the swap but stop having it after?
The Tome of Battle states the following:
Upon reaching 4th level, and at every even-numbered swordsage level
after that (6th, 8th, 10th, and so on), you can choose to learn a new
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Which combat maneuvers from the Martial Adept feat best support a highly mobile monk?
I'm planning a Rogue/Monk character, and I'm planning on being a highly mobile Monk who moves around the battlefield a lot, trying to get as many attacks as possible.
The Rogue subclass is going to be ...
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Can you use combat maneuvers on attacks granted by Polearm Master but not made with the Attack action?
Been enjoying the Battle Master Fighter, but have a question about use of maneuvres with the two parts of Polearm Master:
Polearm Master
You can keep your enemies at bay with reach weapons. You gain ...
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Do the pushing effects of the Battle Master fighter's Pushing Attack maneuver and the Swords bard's Mobile Flourish stack on the same attack?
Do the pushing effects of the Battle Master fighter's Pushing Attack maneuver and the College of Swords bard's Mobile Flourish stack on the same attack?
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Can you disarm a solar’s Flying Sword?
In 5e D&D, the solar has the ability to release its sword and control it remotely. The description of its Flying Sword action says:
Flying Sword. The solar releases its greatsword to hover ...
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Is "Shove" an attack?
This question is prompted by reading this answer to a question about using the Polearm Master feat's bonus action after a Shove and halberd Attack
In the section "Making an Attack" (PHB, page 194):
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Does Blood in the Water work if I score a critical hit on something immune to critical hits?
Blood in the Water (Tome of Battle, p. 86) states:
While you are in this stance, you whip yourself into a terrible rage. When you score a critical hit against an opponent, you enter a near frenzied ...
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How does the Overrun action work?
The action 'Overrun' is described in the DMG p. 272 as:
When a creature tries to move through a hostile creature's space, the mover can try to force its way through by overrunning the hostile ...
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How does the Battle Master fighter's Pushing Attack maneuver interact with ranged weapons?
I want to create a Battle Master fighter who uses a crossbow as his main weapon.
By RAW, you can use a Battle Master maneuver with a ranged weapon as long as the description does not say the ...
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What happens when the UA Bait and Switch maneuver is used on a grappled ally when both the user and ally are still within the grappler's range?
This question is based on this one: What happens when the UA Bait and Switch maneuver is used on a grappled ally when the maneuver-user is out of the grappling monster's reach?
The Unearthed ...
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Can an Abjuration wizard with the Martial Adept feat use the Parry maneuver before their Arcane Ward absorbs damage?
If a Wizard of the School of Abjuration takes the Martial Adept feat and chooses the Parry combat maneuver, how will it interact with their Arcane Ward?
Can the Wizard parry and reduce the need for ...
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How should I handle a player attacking from the top of a tree?
There is a player in my group whose character is developed around staying in trees, climbling, Athletics, Acrobatics, and such. He likes to climb trees and then leap down onto enemies from the tree ...
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