I've got a Dwarven Polearm Master with the cleave and improved trip feats that he uses with a guisarme polearm. If he faces two side by side opponents 10 feet away and he successfully trips the first one, can he use the cleave feat to perform another combat maneuver (another trip, sunder, disarm, etc...) against the adjacent enemy?
Dukan
A combat maneuver is an attack resolved through an attack roll, the success of which is the only thing needed to cleave, so I would say yes.
A combat maneuver is an attack resolved through an attack roll, the success of which is the only thing needed to cleave, so I would say yes.
It depends on teh maneuver however. UNless you have a special prperty you can not do a bull rush, grapple, reposition as an attack but only as a standar action wich is imconpatible with cleave..
I can see why grapple and bull rush would not be allowed as the additional cleave attack, but it seems reposition would since it's accomplished through a successful attack. Am I reading that correctly?
Reposition is a standar action.
But so are attacks. Why would that preclude reposition?
But so are attacks. Why would that preclude reposition?
No.
You can make an attack as a standard action. Or you can take a full attack and make as many attack as you can, in this case those attacks are not standard actions.
For example you can not combine a full attack with a move action (like move and attack with two weapons).
At most you can make one and just one standard action in a given turn. Cleave is a standard action so it is repostion so they can not be combined.
See the Cleave Vs Vital strike FAQ for more information.
Ok, that's a little more clear. Thanks!