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Maintaining a grapple is second nature to you.
Prerequisites: Improved Grapple, Improved Unarmed Strike, base attack bonus +6, Dex 13.
Benefit: You receive a +2 bonus on checks made to grapple a foe. This bonus stacks with the bonus granted by Improved Grapple. Once you have grappled a creature, maintaining the grapple is a move action. This feat allows you to make two grapple checks each round (to move, harm, or pin your opponent), but you are not required to make two checks. You only need to succeed at one of these checks to maintain the grapple.
Normal: Maintaining a grapple is a standard action.
So, suppose I standard action grapple someone and succeed (the first round of grappling). Can I, in that same first round, then use my move action to "maintain" the grapple and get another effect, like a pin?
And if so, do I get a +5 to the second roll, since the person didn't escape in between my two grapple checks (I would guess not, because it says subsequent rounds)?
Also, a question about this: If you successfully grapple a creature that is not adjacent to you, move that creature to an adjacent open space (if no space is available, your grapple fails).
Does this apply to maintaining a grapple? Suppose I'm a white-haired witch who can grapple with reach (and doesn't gain the grappled condition when grappling with her hair after striking the target). If I standard action grapple someone and pull them next to me, then 5ft move away, then move action "maintain" to grapple them again, would it pull that person next to me again?
Thanks.
