Treguard
2008-08-12, 05:06 PM
A quick question about the feat Leap Attack:
You can combine a jump with a charge against an opponent. If you cover at least 10 feet of horizontal distance with your jump, and you end your jump in a square from which you threaten your target, you can double the extra damage dealt by your use of the Power Attack feat. If you use this tactic with a two-handed weapon, you instead triple the extra damage from Power Attack.
This attack must follow all the normal rules for using the Jump skill and for making a charge, except that you ignore rough terrain in any squares you jump over.
Now I'm stuck regarding the damage dealt with a two handed weapon; does it regard the "extra damage from Power Attack" as the straight number you deduct from your to-hit or as the doubled value from are using a 2h-weapon?
If it's the former, than it's simply tripled (power attacking for 5 = 15 damage) but if it's the latter then it's quadrupled, from the combination of x2 and x3 multipliers.
Normally I've played this as a straight x3, but now that I've seen evidence to the contrary (read: people playing it as x4), I'm not so sure.
Any official ruling?
You can combine a jump with a charge against an opponent. If you cover at least 10 feet of horizontal distance with your jump, and you end your jump in a square from which you threaten your target, you can double the extra damage dealt by your use of the Power Attack feat. If you use this tactic with a two-handed weapon, you instead triple the extra damage from Power Attack.
This attack must follow all the normal rules for using the Jump skill and for making a charge, except that you ignore rough terrain in any squares you jump over.
Now I'm stuck regarding the damage dealt with a two handed weapon; does it regard the "extra damage from Power Attack" as the straight number you deduct from your to-hit or as the doubled value from are using a 2h-weapon?
If it's the former, than it's simply tripled (power attacking for 5 = 15 damage) but if it's the latter then it's quadrupled, from the combination of x2 and x3 multipliers.
Normally I've played this as a straight x3, but now that I've seen evidence to the contrary (read: people playing it as x4), I'm not so sure.
Any official ruling?