I was going over several of the upcoming modules to familiarize myself with the tactical details this weekend, and I came across several stat blocs with the "Awesome Blow" feat or special ability. It sounds very familiar, but I can't find it listed anywhere. Could someone kindly point me to the source, so I can note it in my margins for future ref?
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I was going over several of the upcoming modules to familiarize myself with the tactical details this weekend, and I came across several stat blocs with the "Awesome Blow" feat or special ability. It sounds very familiar, but I can't find it listed anywhere. Could someone kindly point me to the source, so I can note it in my margins for future ref?
It is a monster Feat.
Quoting the SRD (http://www.wizards.com/d20/files/v35/MonsterFeats.rtf):
AWESOME BLOW [GENERAL, FIGHTER]
Prerequisites: Str 25, Power Attack, Improved Bull Rush, size Large or larger.
Benefit: As a standard action, the creature may choose to subtract 4 from its melee attack roll and deliver an awesome blow. If the creature hits a corporeal opponent smaller than itself with an awesome blow, its opponent must succeed on a Reflex save (DC = damage dealt) or be knocked flying 10 feet in a direction of the attacking creature’s choice and fall prone. The attacking creature can only push the opponent in a straight line, and the opponent can’t move closer to the attacking creature than the square it started in. If an obstacle prevents the completion of the opponent’s move, the opponent and the obstacle each take 1d6 points of damage, and the opponent stops in the space adjacent to the obstacle.
Also a prerequisite for TOTALLY GNARLEY BLOW, in which the monster can apply the AWESOME BLOW to every opponent it strikes in melee combat as part of a full attack action.
There isn't really a feat like this, but there should be.
It is a monster Feat.Quoting the SRD (http://www.wizards.com/d20/files/v35/MonsterFeats.rtf):
Thanks. Is this printed in the MM? Or some other source?
Or the GO BLOW feat which requires TOTALLY GNARLEY BLOW as a prereq, which then allows for each person so catapulted to strike others like some chain lightning made flesh aka the MEAT PUPPET DOMINO feat. Did I mention that Odin's ominous laughter sunders the sky each time this feat is used?
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Or the GO BLOW feat which requires TOTALLY GNARLEY BLOW as a prereq, which then allows for each person so catapulted to strike others like some chain lightning made flesh aka the MEAT PUPPET DOMINO feat. Did I mention that Odin's ominous laughter sunders the sky each time this feat is used?
And you don't want to be anywhere near the Allfather when he's eating Tex-Mex.
Or the GO BLOW feat which requires TOTALLY GNARLEY BLOW as a prereq, which then allows for each person so catapulted to strike others like some chain lightning made flesh aka the MEAT PUPPET DOMINO feat. Did I mention that Odin's ominous laughter sunders the sky each time this feat is used?And you don't want to be anywhere near the Allfather when he's eating Tex-Mex.
Is THAT how he lost that eye?
Is THAT how he lost that eye?
Let's just say that the Norse pantheon and tequila don't mix...
Is THAT how he lost that eye?Let's just say that the Norse pantheon and tequila don't mix...
Is that cause the worm at the bottom of a bottle of Mezcal remind them too much of Jorgmundandr, the midgard serpent, and the day of final reckoning? Or are their lil wiking tum tums simply too weak for the stuff?
It is a monster Feat.And make sure not to confuse it with 'Export Awesome Blow' which has a prerequisite of the character being Colombian.
lol. Best so far.
Is this printed in the MM? Or some other source?
Yes. In the Monster feat section at the back of the book. Page 303.
Is this printed in the MM? Or some other source?Yes. In the Monster feat section at the back of the book. Page 303.
Thanks--I thought I looked there once, but maybe I just missed it.
Benefit: As a standard action, [...]
Woops, my group has been using this wrong for some time now... I've been allowing the group's Ogre/Fighter to use it as part of a full-round action too, which when hasted means he's had up to three Awesome Blow attacks in a round (actually up to four, once you include Cleave). Not a major, except in one case where he used it to propell one of the dwarves from Pitch Blade above the 40' height restriction in the Champion's Games (that one annoyed the crap out of the dwarf, as well as Raknian, ha ha, as DM I thought it was creative and funny).
I guess that's about to change starting tonight...
Is this printed in the MM? Or some other source?Yes. In the Monster feat section at the back of the book. Page 303.
Oh. I was thrown off by the appearance of "Control Shape" before the A's
Oh. I was thrown off by the appearance of "Control Shape" before the A's
Yeah, I can see how that might be a wee bit confusing. Weird.
Off topic, Peruhain do you have plans to update your campaign journal anytime soon? I'm enjoying it, so thanks.
Eltanin--Yeah, I've actually got more written but haven't been able to post it conveniently because I don't have internet service arranged yet in my new home. Hopefully that will be rectified by early next week, and I'll be able to put it up.