Is there a feat that does this?


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I'm thinking of something along the lines of certain films or anime where you have a martial artist or weapon master run through a crowd of enemies, attacking each on his way by. Oftentimes, it ends with the attacker turning around just as the baddies fall over from the attack.

Something along the lines of:

Hypothetical:

Improved Spring Attack (Combat)
Using your mobility, you can strike many foes in an area before they even realize you are there.
Prerequisites: Dex 13, Dodge, Mobility, Spring Attack, base attack bonus +6
Benefit: As a full-round action, you can move up to your speed and make a single melee attack at your highest attack bonus against every enemy within range of your movement without provoking any attacks of opportunity from the targets of your attacks. Monks may use their highest flurry bonus in place of their attack bonus if they are using an unarmed strike or monk weapon. You must move at least 10 feet before making your first attack and the total distance that you move cannot be greater than your speed. You cannot use this ability to attack a foe that is adjacent to you at the start of your turn.
Normal: You cannot move and make multiple attacks in a round.

Does something along these lines exist somewhere in the Pathfinder rules?


I'm not sure if there is one that exists but I'm going to try this one out over the weekend. I got the visual of what you described and I can't wait to use it against my pcs as a test run. Cheers.

Scarab Sages

It exists as high level Archetype abilities. Mobile Fighter 11 and Dervish Dancer Bard 12 off the top of my head, but they make you sacrifice your highest iterative attack. As it is, this is incredibly overpowered, equal to the level 20 ability of the mobile fighter.

Grand Lodge

I am picturing a mix between whirlwind attack and spring attack....go up to your move in a straight line and one attack against each opponent on the way. I could see it...but penalties and prereq feats would be a drawback.

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Charlie Brooks wrote:

I'm thinking of something along the lines of certain films or anime where you have a martial artist or weapon master run through a crowd of enemies, attacking each on his way by. Oftentimes, it ends with the attacker turning around just as the baddies fall over from the attack.

Something along the lines of:

** spoiler omitted **

Does something along these lines exist somewhere in the Pathfinder rules?

I think I recall being able to do this with Greater Bladed Dash, but it's a spell, not a feat. Because in Pathfinder, being fantastic requires magic.


Oh no, a feat that would allow Fighters to tag multiple opponents in one round, whatever shall we do

It definitely does not exist, but it should.


Dimensional Dervish KINDA does this if you're a Monk, of at least 13th level, who's spent months Retraining almost all of his Feats into being able to get Dimensional Dervish.


In my opinion, we can make a new feat that fuse two taxative line of feats, power attack, cleave, great cleave and dodge, mobility, spring attack and overrun. The feat will allow to make an attack to any on your reach in a charge path (able to overrun any on your path?). About the OP, well is very feat taxative AND circunstantial, even too much,but that makes it a fighter only(7 feats prerrequisite!!!!) and, IMO, not over the pounce barbarians can get.


Jiggy wrote:
Charlie Brooks wrote:

I'm thinking of something along the lines of certain films or anime where you have a martial artist or weapon master run through a crowd of enemies, attacking each on his way by. Oftentimes, it ends with the attacker turning around just as the baddies fall over from the attack.

Something along the lines of:

** spoiler omitted **

Does something along these lines exist somewhere in the Pathfinder rules?

I think I recall being able to do this with Greater Bladed Dash, but it's a spell, not a feat. Because in Pathfinder, being fantastic requires magic.

Yes, greater bladed dash does that. Keep in mind that it's a 5th level spell on spell lists that go up to 6th level spells, so quite high level.


Mounted Skirmisher lets you do that while mounted but it is also high level.


There is a 6th tier trickster path ability called slayer's cyclone.


I think the 3.5 PHBII had something like this or the Tomb of Battle but there is no feat in PF for it, yet.

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Arkady Zelenka wrote:
I'm not sure if there is one that exists but I'm going to try this one out over the weekend. I got the visual of what you described and I can't wait to use it against my pcs as a test run. Cheers.

Please let me know how it is received in actual play.


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As others have stated, Greater Bladed Dash is the spell...

If you want "anime-esque" "Dash through a bunch of guys in a line and kill everyone while whereing simple clothes and wielding a Katana" then your best bet would actually to be a Kensai Magus. Dispite not wearing armor, they can actually have a higher AC than most other characters in the game, they are auto proficient with 1 martial or exotic weapon of their choice and get a free weapon focus in that weapon. Additionally, they gain Fighter training at level 7 instead of level 10 and it counts as magus level -3 instead of the 1/2 level that normal Magus' get. They are also the MASTERS of critical strikes since they pretty much Auto succeed on crit confirmation rolls.

The other nifty thing with this is that, with spell combat, the Magus can use Greater Bladed Dash, swing at everyone in his way, and then proceed to still dump his FULL ATTACK AFTER THE DASH on a guy.


Not with one feat, but it can be done. Suprise round, move in between group, win initiative, lunge with greater cleave, then move again.


Charlie Brooks wrote:

I'm thinking of something along the lines of certain films or anime where you have a martial artist or weapon master run through a crowd of enemies, attacking each on his way by. Oftentimes, it ends with the attacker turning around just as the baddies fall over from the attack.

Something along the lines of:

** spoiler omitted **

Does something along these lines exist somewhere in the Pathfinder rules?

A 3.5 edition Binder can bind Paimon who can do that 1/5 rounds as a supernatural ability called Dance of Death.

It can be done as a 5th level Binder or a 3rd level binder with Improved Binding.


Used to be a couple feats in D&D 3.5 that worked like this: Bounding Assault and Rapid Blitz.


K177Y C47 wrote:

As others have stated, Greater Bladed Dash is the spell...

If you want "anime-esque" "Dash through a bunch of guys in a line and kill everyone while whereing simple clothes and wielding a Katana" then your best bet would actually to be a Kensai Magus. Dispite not wearing armor, they can actually have a higher AC than most other characters in the game, they are auto proficient with 1 martial or exotic weapon of their choice and get a free weapon focus in that weapon. Additionally, they gain Fighter training at level 7 instead of level 10 and it counts as magus level -3 instead of the 1/2 level that normal Magus' get. They are also the MASTERS of critical strikes since they pretty much Auto succeed on crit confirmation rolls.

The other nifty thing with this is that, with spell combat, the Magus can use Greater Bladed Dash, swing at everyone in his way, and then proceed to still dump his FULL ATTACK AFTER THE DASH on a guy.

"the black robed big bad guy feels like a boss behind his four lines of full armored siblings... the kensai smiles.


In my opinion, since your BAB also determines how many attacks you may make in a round, why not just allow PCs to try some sort of nerfed Flurry of Blows and let them target different enemies with each attack?

Also, I'd recommend looking through the Maneuvers introduced in Tome of Battle. There just may be something there to your liking. The downside though is that maneuvers aren't feats.

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Imbicatus wrote:
It exists as high level Archetype abilities. Mobile Fighter 11 and Dervish Dancer Bard 12 off the top of my head, but they make you sacrifice your highest iterative attack. As it is, this is incredibly overpowered, equal to the level 20 ability of the mobile fighter.

Yeah, this is a good idea but should be a higher level ability and it probably shouldn't allow you to exceed the number of attacks you could perform with a full-attack action.

Silver Crusade

Or you can do this crazy MoMS thing that I just became aware of where you just walk past them to generate an AoO, have them miss, hit them once or twice for their rudeness, and just keep walking by. Repeat for every mook in the room that you can get to with a single move action. Then after your little jaunt you turn around to see all the baddies sitting on the floor with fat lips wondering what just happened. You take another swig from your jug and contemplate giving them all another visit to see if they've learned some manners.

Not exactly the same flavor, but ends up having a pretty similar effect.

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Aziraya Zhwan wrote:

Or you can do this crazy MoMS thing that I just became aware of where you just walk past them to generate an AoO, have them miss, hit them once or twice for their rudeness, and just keep walking by. Repeat for every mook in the room that you can get to with a single move action. Then after your little jaunt you turn around to see all the baddies sitting on the floor with fat lips wondering what just happened. You take another swig from your jug and contemplate giving them all another visit to see if they've learned some manners.

Not exactly the same flavor, but ends up having a pretty similar effect.

You don't even need to be a MoMS, you can just take Panther Style. Here's a sample character I built a while ago that does just this. Barry Allen


Eric Generic wrote:
Also, I'd recommend looking through the Maneuvers introduced in Tome of Battle. There just may be something there to your liking. The downside though is that maneuvers aren't feats.

But you can take them as feats! And stances can be pretty awesome, though my favorite is out of reach for a non martial adept(but if your a martial and using that book you might be playing one anyway...)

Silver Crusade

Petty Alchemy wrote:
Aziraya Zhwan wrote:

Or you can do this crazy MoMS thing that I just became aware of where you just walk past them to generate an AoO, have them miss, hit them once or twice for their rudeness, and just keep walking by. Repeat for every mook in the room that you can get to with a single move action. Then after your little jaunt you turn around to see all the baddies sitting on the floor with fat lips wondering what just happened. You take another swig from your jug and contemplate giving them all another visit to see if they've learned some manners.

Not exactly the same flavor, but ends up having a pretty similar effect.

You don't even need to be a MoMS, you can just take Panther Style. Here's a sample character I built a while ago that does just this. Barry Allen

Well the MoMS gets to throw snake on there as well. Not saying you couldn't do it without MoMS, but MoMS would be able to optimize this attack pattern better I think.

Silver Crusade

Detect Magic wrote:
Used to be a couple feats in D&D 3.5 that worked like this: Bounding Assault and Rapid Blitz.

Yep.

There was also the Dervish PrC, which let you do a Dervish Dance 1/day per two levels of the PrC, and gave you +1 to hit and damage per dance/day, so if you could dance 5/day then you got +5 to hit and damage while dancing. Each dance lasted a certain number of rounds, usually enough for a single dance to last the whole combat.

But the main benefit was that, while dancing, you could move your speed while taking your full attack, but you had to move one square between attacks, and couldn't go back to a square you just left. If you ran out of move you couldn't attack any more.

You could also Whirlwind Attack during this move (if you had the feat), great with a reach weapon. : )


It's 3rd party, but this feat is essentially a Cleaving Charge with Prereqs of Power Attack and +6 BAB.

Only works if you kill each target in succession though.

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