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Benefit: When you hit a creature your size or smaller with a two-handed weapon attack modified by the Power Attack feat, you can choose to push the target 5 feet directly away from you instead of dealing the extra damage from Power Attack. If you score a critical hit, you can instead push the target 10 feet directly away from you. This movement does not provoke attacks of opportunities, and the target must end this move in a safe space it can stand in. You choose which effect to apply after the attack roll has been made, but before the damage is rolled.
Lets say medium monster A is grappling party member B.
If I use Pushing Assault to move A such that A is no longer adjacent to B, which of the following happens?:
1. The grapple ends
2. B is moved to be adjacent to A
3. A and B is no longer adjacent, but they still have the grappled condition.
Grappled's movement restriction is worded differently from the anchored Entangled's wording, and seems to just prevent moving yourself, but not any and all movement. (such as if the bridge you're Grappling on collapsing, and normal falling occurs, whether or not one or both Grapplers should now fall)
So, RAW, 3.
House-ruling, I end the Grapple condition if the target is outside the controller's Reach.
Same goes for if the target teleports somewhere outside of Reach (although if you're really going all house-rule-y there, any Teleport effect not also including the controller can break the grapple even if they end up within Reach, since there wasn't continuous movement to retain a hold)
That's a shame. I was hoping to use it in PFS to save any potentially grappled party members, so I have to go by RAW. At least I can give everyone at the table an amusing image of two guys grappling each other from 10 feet away.
Maybe they're having a staring contest.
Well, the rule situation is bizarre enough that I can't really say how any GM may rule on it, even in PFS.
And of course, even if we go by 3 and the Grappled condition persists (until they don't maintain it),
it can be useful: knock the grappler off a cliff, move them so that they will need to move & provoke AoO
if they want to re-threaten the target to maintain the grapple, that sort of thing.
It also would still work to remove characters from the area of a black tentacles,
the black tentacles won't 'maintain' the grapple even on adjacent squares outside it's Area of Effect.
But some GMs may just say that grapplers cannot be moved at all, by any force (gravity, colossal titans, etc),
ignoring the difference in wording vs. anchored Entangle. Hit the FAQ button and maybe it will get answered officially.
Just wanted to bump this to see if I can get more opinions on this. If no one else has any input (or interest) I'll drop it.