Pounce.


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Which classes can Pounce?

Barbarians and Druids can, who else?


Wizards with beast shape

EDIT: sorcerers to.

Grand Lodge

Well, the kitsune race can, summoners, clerics, and inquisitors too.


Beastmorph alchemists (beastmorph vivisectionists have a nasty claw claw bite with three sneak attacks as a cherry on top)

How do clerics and inquisitors get it?


Anyone mounted with the feat at level 14, barbarians, druids, alchemists, fighters can get a weak version of pounce via archtypes.

If you really want it its quite easy to get.

Grand Lodge

Clerics and Inquisitors get it with the Plains Domain.

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Egoish wrote:

Anyone mounted with the feat at level 14, barbarians, druids, alchemists, fighters can get a weak version of pounce via archtypes.

If you really want it its quite easy to get.

Pounce isn't a feat, how can anyone at 14 get it?


I think he was referring to the feat that lets you make a full attack while mounted, even if your mount moves. It's a sort of pseudo pounce. Most people can't pick it up until level 14. Rangers with the mounted combat style can pick it up at 10.


Mounted Skirmisher. Sohei monk can get it much earlier than that, though there isn't much use for it. I guess you could move and do a feeble flurry of blows...


And no one has mentioned Synthesist yet?! for shame...

Grand Lodge

I mentioned the summoner, which the synthesist is an archetype of the summoner.

The Exchange

Not quite pounce, but similar: Magus with Bladed Dash, Force Hook Charge, maybe a few other spells, but I'm too tired to look any up right now. With this, Magus can have a pseudo-pounce at level 4, with spell combat.


So can a summoner gain pounce through Aspect?

The Exchange

As far as I can tell, no, unless you are a quadruped summoner.

Aspect (Su) wrote:

At 10th level, a summoner can divert up to 2 points from his eidolon’s evolution pool to add evolutions to himself. He cannot select any evolution that the eidolon could not possess, and he must be able to meet the requirements as well. He cannot select the ability increase evolution through this ability. Any points spent in this way are taken from the eidolon’s evolution pool (reducing the total number available to the eidolon). The summoner can change the evolutions he receives from these points any time he can change the eidolon’s evolutions.

Pounce (Ex) wrote:
An eidolon gains quick reflexes, allowing it to make a full attack after a charge. This evolution is only available to eidolons of the quadruped base form.

Emphasis mine, on both counts.


So a centaur summoner with a quadruped eidolon?

otherwise, anything that lists a "base form" gets thrown out...

The Exchange

I'm not sure of what an official ruling would be, but I'd allow it.

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