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one,if that Is true would that allow for a standard action to be used after you sucessfully maintain a grapple?
Yes. Your standard action can be anything you'd like, as long as you can do it while you have the grappled condition.
and 2, since grappeling only allows for auto damage no attack roll im 99% sure you cannot turn that into a stunning fist.
You can't use Stunning Fist with your action to maintain the grapple, but you could then make an unarmed attack as a standard action and use Stunning Fist with that.
the real advantage of having Greater Grapple and Rapid Grapple is that you get multiple grapple checks per round. When you successfully maintain a grapple you get to do one of a list of actions from the grapple section of the CRB (about pg 200). This includes 1) damage equal to unarmed hit, 2) pin, 3) move up to half your speed, 4) tie up. Normally you would have to spend a standard action to maintain the grapple, roll your d20 and then if you choose do one of the above options. Greater Grapple allows for more actions.
For example, I have Greater grapple. So on my turn I roll 2 d20s and if one of the rolls allows me to maintain a grapple I get to do two of the actions above not one. SO, on my turn I can both pin and tie up an opponent (usually tie up has a -20 if the person isn't already pinned). Where as if I only had improved grapple I would only be able to pin my opponent this turn and have to wait for next turn to tie him up, risking him rolling enough to escape or being attacked and being forced to let go etc.
A tied up opponent is helpless, i.e. you can coup de grace him next round or just leave him there tied up until you kill his friends. This is why grappling is a good choice. Rapid Grapple (UC) is even better b/c you can maintain the grapple as a swift action and then full attack, or get three of the above choices.
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For example, I have Greater grapple. So on my turn I roll 2 d20s and if one of the rolls allows me to maintain a grapple I get to do two of the actions above not one. SO, on my turn I can both pin and tie up an opponent (usually tie up has a -20 if the person isn't already pinned). Where as if I only had improved grapple I would only be able to pin my opponent this turn and have to wait for next turn to tie him up, risking him rolling enough to escape or being attacked and being forced to let go etc.
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Can you do two things if you succeed only once in maintaining the grapple? I thought you had to succeed twice to do two things, but only one success was necessary to maintain the grapple.
Benefit: You receive a +2 bonus on checks made to grapple a foe. This bonus stacks with the bonus granted by Improved Grapple. Once you have grappled a creature, maintaining the grapple is a move action. This feat allows you to make two grapple checks each round (to move, harm, or pin your opponent), but you are not required to make two checks. You only need to succeed at one of these checks to maintain the grapple.
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I agree with Brother Sapo.
you have to do both checks to be able to do 2 things.
My question (as discussed on a danish pathfinder board) is this:
if i have Greater grappel, can i 5-foot step to bad guy, initiate a grappel (standard action) and then "maintain" as a move action in the first round, and there by pinning an opponent in the first round?
The thing i found this depending on, is tha fact that it does not say anywhere that a maintaining grappel roll have to be in the round after the initiation. In the Corebook page 200 it states that if you do not release the grappel, you must make a check each round to maintain it. But this is from the assumption that you need a standard action to maintain a grappel.
and if this is possible, do i get the +5 circumstance bonus for my maintain move action roll in round 1?
