Faleldir
2009-03-31, 05:15 PM
Pushback is often regarded as the poor man's Knockback, but I think I found an interesting use for it.
As a swift action, you can choose to treat your ranged attack rolls with thrown weapons as melee attacks for the rest of your turn. You use your melee attack bonus, including Strength bonus, feats, and so forth, to determine your attack bonus for each attack as normal, but you apply the standard modifiers for range penalties. Attacking into melee, through cover, and so forth incurs the standard penalties.
In addition, you can apply 1-1/2 times your Strength bonus to damage if you wield the thrown weapon with two hands, and you can use Power Attack with your thrown weapon attacks (adding two times the number subtracted from attack rolls as a bonus on damage rolls when throwing a two-handed weapon).
If you hit an opponent of up to your size with a melee attack, you may initiate a special Bull Rush against that opponent. If successful, you force your opponent back 5’ (straight or diagonally) and you move into the square he/she previously occupied. Neither movement generates Attacks of Opportunity. Usable once per round.
It's probably not RAW because Thunderous Throw is clear about what it applies to: numerical bonuses to your attack roll. If it were that simple, it wouldn't need to mention Power Attack as an addition. But since that would also make Shuriken Storm (http://forums.gleemax.com/wotc_archive/index.php/t-792530) illegal, I am confident that I am wrong.
It looks like this. (http://super-smash-bros.wikia.com/wiki/Aether)
As a swift action, you can choose to treat your ranged attack rolls with thrown weapons as melee attacks for the rest of your turn. You use your melee attack bonus, including Strength bonus, feats, and so forth, to determine your attack bonus for each attack as normal, but you apply the standard modifiers for range penalties. Attacking into melee, through cover, and so forth incurs the standard penalties.
In addition, you can apply 1-1/2 times your Strength bonus to damage if you wield the thrown weapon with two hands, and you can use Power Attack with your thrown weapon attacks (adding two times the number subtracted from attack rolls as a bonus on damage rolls when throwing a two-handed weapon).
If you hit an opponent of up to your size with a melee attack, you may initiate a special Bull Rush against that opponent. If successful, you force your opponent back 5’ (straight or diagonally) and you move into the square he/she previously occupied. Neither movement generates Attacks of Opportunity. Usable once per round.
It's probably not RAW because Thunderous Throw is clear about what it applies to: numerical bonuses to your attack roll. If it were that simple, it wouldn't need to mention Power Attack as an addition. But since that would also make Shuriken Storm (http://forums.gleemax.com/wotc_archive/index.php/t-792530) illegal, I am confident that I am wrong.
It looks like this. (http://super-smash-bros.wikia.com/wiki/Aether)