I feel like I am missing something here. I have seen in the forums that Vital strike is a standard attack action, but in the full round action (full attack) it says you can make one attack and then decide whether you want to continue to attack or make another type of move action. The way I read this is:
1) I vital strike a monster (as a standard action)
2) At that point, I can either:
a) run away
b) continue to attack
I've put the rules below. What am I missing that says you can't do this? Any help would be appreciated.
thanks,
Mal
Vital Strike (Combat)
You make a single attack that deals significantly more damage than normal.
Prerequisites: Base attack bonus +6.
Benefit: When you use the attack action, you can make one attack at your highest base attack bonus that deals additional damage. Roll the damage dice for the attack twice and add the results together, but do not multiply damage bonuses from Strength, weapon abilities (such as flaming), or precision-based damage (such as sneak attack). This bonus damage is not multiplied on a critical hit (although other damage bonuses are multiplied normally)
Standard action
Making an attack is a standard action
Full round actions: Full attack:
Deciding between an Attack or a Full Attack: After your first attack, you can decide to take a move action instead of making your remaining attacks, depending on how the first attack turns out and assuming you have not already taken a move action this round. If you've already taken a 5-foot step, you can't use your move action to move any distance, but you could still use a different kind of move action.
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If you take a Standard Action, you can no longer take a Full-Round Action.
A Full Attack is a type of Full-Round Action that lets you change it into a Standard Action after you make one attack.
After you take a second attack, you can no longer change it into a Standard Action.
When you use Vital Strike, you take a Standard Action. Thus, all you can take afterwards is a Move Action. You cannot take a Standard Action and a Full Round Action in the same round.
The most common use of Vital Strike is after you have taken your Move Action to reach your target.
You could use Vital Strike and then a Move Action.
Maybe you killed the enemy, or maybe you want to draw another weapon. It depends on the situation.
However, if you use the Move Action to move away, you will draw an AoO.