Hiro Quester
2015-06-17, 11:45 PM
I am playing a druid7monk1 who spends a lot of time in leopard wildshape.
Studying the rules about how improved grab and rake interact in a grapple, I thought I had finally figured things out. This excellent summary (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?30882-Monster-Grappling-fully-explained) of monster grappling answered all my questions but one.
Imagine my PC in leopard wildshape bites successfully, and wins the opposed grapple check. I am now grappling the enemy.
Improved grab says this:
A successful hold does not deal any extra damage unless the creature also has the constrict special attack. If the creature does not constrict, each successful grapple check it makes during successive rounds automatically deals the damage indicated for the attack that established the hold. Otherwise, it deals constriction damage as well (the amount is given in the creature’s descriptive text).
The creature I am grappling, on its turn, struggles against the grapple and I make an opposed grapple check to maintain the grapple.
If I win this opposed grapple check to maintain the grapple, do I get to chew on it a bit more and do bite damage as it struggles unsuccessfully to escape? Or is it only on my turn that I deal bite damage on a successful grapple check?
Studying the rules about how improved grab and rake interact in a grapple, I thought I had finally figured things out. This excellent summary (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?30882-Monster-Grappling-fully-explained) of monster grappling answered all my questions but one.
Imagine my PC in leopard wildshape bites successfully, and wins the opposed grapple check. I am now grappling the enemy.
Improved grab says this:
A successful hold does not deal any extra damage unless the creature also has the constrict special attack. If the creature does not constrict, each successful grapple check it makes during successive rounds automatically deals the damage indicated for the attack that established the hold. Otherwise, it deals constriction damage as well (the amount is given in the creature’s descriptive text).
The creature I am grappling, on its turn, struggles against the grapple and I make an opposed grapple check to maintain the grapple.
If I win this opposed grapple check to maintain the grapple, do I get to chew on it a bit more and do bite damage as it struggles unsuccessfully to escape? Or is it only on my turn that I deal bite damage on a successful grapple check?