Easy? Does monsters / animals with trip= as having the improved trip feat?

[Maraxion]

As the tekst says.

Does animals like cats, wolfs etc with the trip feature have the same abilities as improved trip?:

Improved Trip (Combat)
You are skilled at sending your opponents to the ground.

Prerequisite: Int 13, Combat Expertise.

Benefit: You do not provoke an attack of opportunity when performing a trip combat maneuver. In addition, you receive a +2 bonus on checks made to trip a foe. You also receive a +2 bonus to your Combat Maneuver Defense whenever an opponent tries to trip you.

Normal: You provoke an attack of opportunity when performing a trip combat maneuver.

Or is it just this with no +2:
Trip (Ex) A creature with the trip special attack can attempt to trip its opponent as a free action without provoking an attack of opportunity if it hits with the specified attack. If the attempt fails, the creature is not tripped in return.

And is that also with animal companions?

[Are]

Monsters with the trip feature have this (from Universal Monster Rules in the various bestiaries):

Trip (Ex) A creature with the trip special attack can attempt to trip its opponent as a free action without provoking an attack of opportunity if it hits with the specified attack. If the attempt fails, the creature is not tripped in return.

[Paul Watson]

Maraxion wrote:

As the tekst says.

Does animals like cats, wolfs etc with the trip feature have the same abilities as improved trip?:

Improved Trip (Combat)
You are skilled at sending your opponents to the ground.

Prerequisite: Int 13, Combat Expertise.

Benefit: You do not provoke an attack of opportunity when performing a trip combat maneuver. In addition, you receive a +2 bonus on checks made to trip a foe. You also receive a +2 bonus to your Combat Maneuver Defense whenever an opponent tries to trip you.

Normal: You provoke an attack of opportunity when performing a trip combat maneuver.

Or is it just this with no +2:
Trip (Ex) A creature with the trip special attack can attempt to trip its opponent as a free action without provoking an attack of opportunity if it hits with the specified attack. If the attempt fails, the creature is not tripped in return.

And is that also with animal companions?

No, it uses the Trip feature in the Universal Monster Rules. It means they can make trip attacks on any successful hit with the specified attack.

[Maerimydra]

They have the trip ability, described at the end of the Bestiary, which is not the same thing as having the Improved Trip feat. First, they have to make a normal attack and hit the opponent AC before initiating the trip combat maneuver. If they hit, they can perform a trip combat maneuver for free as part of the same attack without provoking an attack of opportunity, but, unlike the feat, they do not get a +2 bonus on checks made to trip a foe; they use their normal CMB. It means that those animals would benefits from taking the Improved Trip feat, but they have to meet the prerequisite.

[Maraxion]

I see.
So if someone tried to trip lets say a Wolf, he has no improved defense exept his normal CMD.

[Are]

Maraxion wrote:

So if someone tried to trip lets say a Wolf, he has no improved defense exept his normal CMD.

That's right, except a wolf has four legs, so it gets a +4 bonus to CMD against trip attempts (which is also listed in its Bestiary statblock).

[Maraxion]

Are wrote:

Maraxion wrote:

So if someone tried to trip lets say a Wolf, he has no improved defense exept his normal CMD.

That's right, except a wolf has four legs, so it gets a +4 bonus to CMD against trip attempts (which is also listed in its Bestiary statblock).

Ah offcource.... Thanks, I knew there had to be something :)

[Paul Watson]

Plus the fact that as a quadraped he'd get a bonus as per the trip rules.