Successfully grappled but get stunned - and now?

[Talasek]

Hi,

A playercharacter(A) of mine did grapple a Doppelganger(C) sucessfully.
Another playercharacter(B) cast color spray - Doppelganger saves, Character (A) not.

HD > 5 so (A) is stunned for 1 round
What happends tu the grapple?

I ruled the grapple is broken, as stunn says drop everything held sounds like loosing control and tension.

So my question, is the Doppelganger still grappled, or can he use his weapons to attack normally?

Whats your oppinion.

Thank you very much.

Talasek

[Michael Johnson 66]

Talasek wrote:

Hi,

A playercharacter(A) of mine did grapple a Doppelganger(C) sucessfully.
Another playercharacter(B) cast color spray - Doppelganger saves, Character (A) not.

HD > 5 so (A) is stunned for 1 round
What happends tu the grapple?

I ruled the grapple is broken, as stunn says drop everything held sounds like loosing control and tension.

So my question, is the Doppelganger still grappled, or can he use his weapons to attack normally?

Whats your oppinion.

Thank you very much.

Talasek

I'd say that you ruled correctly. If being stunned causes you to drop everything, an opponent would fall under "everything", IMO.

[Iczer]

also, as you need a standard action each round to maintain a grapple (if you are the grappeler) the stunning means the grapple would stop at that point anyway.

That said, if you would drop a 2 handed sword, you would probably drop the doppelganger (droppelganger?)

Batts