Spring Attack in Surprise Round

[harmor]

How does this work?

[Father Dale]

It doesn't.

If you can act in the surprise round you can only take a single standard action (or any action that you could otherwise take in place of a standard action). You wouldn't be able to move and attack (although I think you are able to charge but only up to your movement, not up to double your movement, but thats special to the charge action.)

[SirUrza]

You are able to charge in a surprise round. It's limited to your base movement. Beware though, you can not use a charge action in a surprise round if you still need to draw your weapon (unless you have Quick Draw.)

[Quandary]

The current wording doesn't specify what action(s) Spring Attack uses. So who knows.

Depending on how it's worded, you could possibly Spring Attack IF you satisfy the requirements for a (partial) Charge, that is: straight line to attack opponent, though your total movement will have to be <= Move Speed (in other words, a Charging Spring Attack). But like I said, we can't make any definitive statement until we see the wording fixed.