| wolfen |
Ok so I have been reading up and was curious as to how others think this actually works. From what I have read. A monster (X) gets a number of rake attacks in the following round of a successful grapple. From this I have general questions.
1. Is rake automatic to hit like your standard attack while maintaining a grapple or does it require attack rolls?
2. If you can maintain a grapple multiple times can you use rake multiple times, or is it a one time free action during your grapple?
3. Is rakes damage based upon the natural attack it uses or is it based purely upon a set damage as it is a "special attack"?
If anyone has any other types of insight or knowledge about rake during grapple that I could not think of please post it.
| MacGurcules |
1. They're described as attacks, so you have to roll to hit for each of them.
2. This isn't super clear. I suspect the intention is that you're supposed to get them as part of maintaining a grapple. In that case, they should apply each time you maintain. The way it's written, however, it seems like you can just take two free rake attacks any time during the round, so long as you take them against a grappled opponent. In this fashion, you could even start the round grappling, rake, then release if you wanted to.
3. Rake is described as a claw attack. The monster stat blocks will have the damage already figured, but anything that modifies an attack should also modify rake as appropriate.