questions on Meat Shield and Uncanny Grapple


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So I made a grappling fighter for entertainment purposes in my buddies Mythic campaign. Getting up in levels and taking any grapple feat I can find. Found this ability:

Meat Shield: You can use a creature you're grappling to protect you from harm. If you're grappling a creature and are attacked with a melee or ranged attack, as an immediate action you can attempt a grapple combat maneuver check against your grappled opponent. If you succeed, the incoming attack targets your grappled opponent instead of you. If you fail, the grappled opponent breaks free from the grapple and the incoming attack targets you as normal.

Uncanny Grapple: Upon making a successful grapple combat maneuver check against a creature you are grappling, you can perform one of the following actions: throw, crush, or swing. ... For a swing, you can use the target as a weapon against another creature...

Anyway, I used it today to grapple a gargoyle and then proceeded to beat on its friends. Hilarity ensued. Brought up the following question: with no size constraints, could I use it on a diminutive creature? Grapple a fairy and use it to block a sword, then smack it against the face of the monster attacking me. Something along those lines.

Grand Lodge

If you had no size constraints, yeah.
I highly doubt that you posses a feat/ability that lets you grapple things with more than a 1 size category difference, though.

If you do, well, I pray for your GM.


I can find no rules stating that the target of your grapple need be within a size range compared to you.

You can grapple something that is Fine-sized (say, the eyeball familiar of an eyebiter mesmerist), and then use it to block attacks from a Tarrasque.

Well... one attack, anyways.

Grand Lodge

Saethori wrote:

I can find no rules stating that the target of your grapple need be within a size range compared to you.

You can grapple something that is Fine-sized (say, the eyeball familiar of an eyebiter mesmerist), and then use it to block attacks from a Tarrasque.

Well... one attack, anyways.

welp. with grappling style, you can hold two people (one in each hand), so, if the rules don't prevent it, you may be able to block two attacks from Cthulhu with two ants.

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