siegebreaker archetype / feats usage


Rules Questions


Hi, In an up coming campaign I have decided to play an orc that's actually themed off an orc bloodbowl player from the warhammer series and I had a question about the archetype and certain feats.

The class abilities are as follows

"Breaker Rush (Ex)

At 1st level, a siegebreaker can attempt bull rush or overrun combat maneuvers without provoking attacks of opportunity. When he performs either combat maneuver, he deals an amount of bludgeoning damage equal to his Strength bonus (minimum 1). If he has Improved Bull Rush or Improved Overrun, the damage dealt by the appropriate maneuver increases by 2 and he adds any enhancement bonus from his armor or shield (though such enhancement bonuses do not stack, if both armor and shield are magic).

This ability replaces the feat gained at 1st level."

And

"Breaker Momentum (Ex)

At 2nd level, when a siegebreaker successfully bull rushes a foe, he can attempt an overrun combat maneuver check against that foe as a free action.

This ability replaces the feat gained at 2nd level."

And the feats essentially to what I'm building to is combat expertise, improved bull rush/overrun,trip(and greater trip), vicious stomp, and charge through, merciless rush, squash flat, spiked destroyer.

Now the questions for my feats in particular are these,

"Merciless Rush (Combat)

Though hordes stand against you, they rarely stand long.

Prerequisite(s): Improved Bull Rush, worshiper of an evil deity.

Benefit(s): When you bull rush a creature and your check exceeds the target's CMD by 5 or more, you deal damage equal to your Strength modifier to that target."
would this stack with the breaker rush class ability

With the listed feats as is, lets say on 1 opponent, I charge, bull rush, exceed by 5, I deal my strength + 2 + strength again, hit with my my armor spikes as part of the bull rush due to spiked destroyer, get a free charge through or trip, get my vicious stomp attack, and my greater trip attack? Seems complicated but to me, it seems like it would work out this way but I just need some clarification. Thanks.

Liberty's Edge

Intrinsic75 wrote:
would this stack with the breaker rush class ability

No, Strength bonuses to damage from two different sources do not stack with each other. You'd only get your Strength bonus once.

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With the listed feats as is, lets say on 1 opponent, I charge, bull rush, exceed by 5, I deal my strength + 2 + strength again, hit with my my armor spikes as part of the bull rush due to spiked destroyer, get a free charge through or trip, get my vicious stomp attack, and my greater trip attack?

In addition to the double strength bonus issue, I'm not sure you could 'give up' 5' of bull rush movement to get a free trip attack with Squash Flat AND still have that 5' bull rush movement effectively available for purposes of getting the Merciless Rush bonus damage.

Otherwise, it all looks good.

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