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Your suggestion that Feinting replace a single attack, rather than being a standard or move action, is a pretty good one. … I suggest that, even though you do it first, it replace your attack with the lowest attack bonus (since you won’t be using it anyway as a Feint is a Bluff check). …

That is because sunder is defined as You can use a melee attack with a slashing or bludgeoning weapon to strike a weapon or shield that your opponent is holding. …

You can explicitly abort a full attack entirely after the first attack, and instead consider it a standard attack (freeing up your move action): Deciding between an Attack or a Full Attack After your … (Actions in Combat → Full Attack) After the second attack (having locked in that this is a full attack), there is not an explicit statement one way or the other. …

Yes. As @ObliviousSage mentioned in comments, not all defenses are made equally, and some are more common than others. Actually going through the books and figuring out which defense “wins” seems very …

Even with only one attack, some characters (e.g. a 3rd-level Swordlord Fighter) can get other benefits from making a Full Attack, and therefore may Full-Attack for just one attack, burning their Move action … Note that you do not choose between Attack and Full-Attack until after that first attack (assuming you still have a Move action to make the Full-Attack an option). …

Thus, they not only can use a full attack (as usual), but they must if they wish to use the extra attack granted by haste. … regardless of number of attacks Yes, you can use a full attack even when you only get one attack. …

Does the full round action requirement mean you are technically not using the attack action so Vital Strike cannot apply? … It doesn't Vital Strike requires its own action, and with a slow-firing weapon, the attack uses up your available actions so you can't Vital Strike with it. …

In both examples, you become immune to that person’s full-attack. Not to anyone else’s. And giving up a turn to maybe waste an enemy turn is not a good trade. … They wouldn’t; they’d attack someone who is actually threatening them and who will be easy to hit. And in most cases, you won’t be able to stop them. …

The rules for sunder explicitly begin with Sunder You can use a melee attack with a slashing or bludgeoning weapon to strike a weapon or shield that your opponent is holding. … And since you are presumably giving up an attack or something else to attempt these called shots, your odds can be reasonable, and if the odds are reasonable, the effects need not be so dire. …

That means you can make your +6 attack with the bastard sword in two hands, let go of it with one, and attack with the free hand for your +1 attack. … secondary attack. …

morningstar attack at +12, and then a single morningstar attack, with either hand, at +7. … What we get is Full Attack 2 morningstars +12/+7 melee [...] …

one melee attack [...] against each opponent within reach (Whirlwind Attack) Is this one attack, total, that is resolved against each target within melee reach, or is this one attack for each target within … full attack). …

The effect of being incorporeal was updated in Monster Manual III (the updated version is also reprinted in Rules Compendium and Tome of Battle, and possibly elsewhere). Strictly speaking, there are p …

There is no source of attack bonus you haven’t accounted for; you aren’t missing anything. The statblock is wrong, which is unfortunately very common in 3.5e. …

The two-weapon fighting combat option allows you to get an extra attack when you full attack, but all of your attacks in that full attack take a penalty. … the iterative attack). …