Hydraulic Push


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This may have been addressed before but I can't seem to find a good answer to my question. Hydraulic push reads as follows;

You call forth a quick blast of water that knocks over and soaks one creature or square. You can use this blast of water to make a bull rush against any one creature or object. Your CMB for this bull rush is equal to your caster level plus your Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma modifier, whichever is highest. This bull rush does not provoke an attack of opportunity. Hydraulic push extinguishes any normal fires on a creature, object, or in a single 5-foot square which it is targeted against. Magical fires are unaffected.

I am interpreting this as the spell soaks one creature/square and knocks over one creature square. This would mean that spell automatically knocks over and soaks one creature with no save. It then states that I can make a bull rush attempt. So after I knock them over and soak them I can make a CMB check (as outlined in the description) to bullrush them as well?

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No.

The first two sentences are not a list of things where you get to do all of them. Rather, the first sentence introduces the paragraph by giving you the spell effect in a nutshell, while the second begins giving you the details that define how that introductory sentence works.


Pathfinder Adventure Path, Lost Omens, Rulebook Subscriber

I second what Jiggy posted. The first sentence is the flavor text for this spell.


hmm, ok, knock over seems to be a pretty poor description of what bullrush does though, sounds more like a trip.

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