Hi all.
Dears, pls help me out with situation. We have small amateur tournament cub PvP 5*5 characters.
So thing is it's not a surprise round. A Druid (lvl 8) is in shape of leopard (has pounce). He is staggered on this turn. Then PC decides to make a pounce while staggered, because he can charge as a standard action up to his speed. Is he allowed to do so? I searched through the forum and found different opinions how to handle such situations. So please help us choose correct.
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So we have the following raw rule statements:
1. Full-attack:
If you get more than one attack per round because your base attack bonus is high enough (see Base Attack Bonus in Classes), because you fight with two weapons or a double weapon, or for some special reason, you MUST use a FULL-ROUND action to get your additional attacks.
2. Staggered:
staggered creature may take a single move action or standard action each round (but not both, nor can he take full-round actions
3. Charge:
If you are able to take only a standard action on your turn, you can still charge.
4. Pounce:
When a Creature with this special attack makes a charge, it can make a FULL-ATTACK (including rake attacks if the Creature also has the rake ability).
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Our DM doesn't know how to handle it correct too. So we hope decision will be made with ur help.
I think there are two options:
a) when using pounce charge is considered as a part of full_attack. In order to perform full_attack u need full_action, so when u have only move/standart u don't have full_action, so u cannot pounce with full_attack when staggered or slowed.
b) when using pounce Full_attack as a part of charge. So if u can charge (even with a standart action only) u can also make a pounce with full_attack. So u can make pounce while staggered or slowed.
Logics suggests us pick a) option (owner of druid is obviously against this decision :D ), because without charge leopard while staggered can make only 1 attack even if he's adjacent to the target.
So what option should we use?
a) Leopard can't pounce and full attack while staggered
or b) Leopard can use pounce and full attack while staggered
Any ur opinion will be appreciated. Please kindly help us out with this situatuion.
P.S. sorry for my bad english.
