Stalwart Defender - immobile defensive power


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Sovereign Court

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Charter Superscriber; Pathfinder Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Roleplaying Game, Starfinder Society Subscriber

"While in a defensive stance, the stalwart defender adds his class level to his CMD against any bull rush, overrun, pull and push combat maneuver, as well as grapple attempts to move him."

Pull and Push combat maneuvers? The new Drag combat maneuver is also missing. What else did I miss?

The Exchange

steal? trick?


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Quote:

New Attack Option: Bind

In place of a melee attack, you may attempt to gain control of your opponent’s weapon. Make a CMB check against your opponent, including all appropriate modifiers. If you succeed, you bind your opponent’s weapon.

A bound weapon cannot be used to make attacks, nor does it allow its wielder to threaten any space. A bound weapon can be wrenched free with a successful opposed attack roll, or can be dropped as a free action. If your opponent does not free or drop his weapon he cannot move beyond your reach.

While binding your opponent, you suffer the same limitations, except you may end the bind as a free action. If you attempt to disarm your opponent or sunder the bound weapon, you do not provoke an attack of opportunity, and you get a +4 bonus on the CMB roll and the damage roll of the sunder attempt.

*shakes fist*

Sovereign Court

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Charter Superscriber; Pathfinder Starfinder Adventure Path, Starfinder Roleplaying Game, Starfinder Society Subscriber

Those are not combat maneuvers designed to move a person. So they affect a Stalwart Defender the same as e.g. a Disarm. But Pull and Push are not combat maneuvers (they are not really attack options at all), Pull could be Drag instead (and they missed updating the name accordingly once they perhaps changed the name of the combat maneuver) and Bull Rush is in the text, so push may be a different combat maneuver that was scrapped further along...

Bind weapon should be a Combat maneuver under Pathfinder rules, I spoke to Craig Shackleton (author of "The Art of Duel" Indulgence, that was the base for the Osirion regional feat in the campaign setting) about that when we were translating the Campaign Setting book.

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