Lockjaw spell on wolf animal companion

[Sior]

Given: A wolf animal companion can trip with a successful bite attack.
Given: The spell lockjaw grants the grab ability to a natural attack.

Question: If one casts Lockjaw on the animal companion which can already trip, are they able to grab as well as trip, or must they do one or the other. If the first, in which order does it perform those actions? Trip then grab? Grab then trip? Player's choice?

Clarification needed!

[Conman the Bardbarian]

Deja vu

[Sior]

Just trying to spread the question to all available resources. Also, my search-fu is weak for this one.

[Gilfalas]

Sior wrote:

Given: A wolf animal companion can trip with a successful bite attack.

Given: The spell lockjaw grants the grab ability to a natural attack.

Question: If one casts Lockjaw on the animal companion which can already trip, are they able to grab as well as trip, or must they do one or the other. If the first, in which order does it perform those actions? Trip then grab? Grab then trip? Player's choice?

Clarification needed!

Sounds like a case of 'ask your GM' as the only way to get a ruling.

At my table it would be 'Player's choice', but RAW I don't see anything that specifies an order to multiple 'simultaneous' combat maneuvers from a single attack source.

[StabbittyDoom]

I would do them simultaneously. Roll for success/fail of each ignoring the outcome of the other, then apply both conditions at once (if both succeed). I don't think there's a RAW order, though.

[dragonhunterq]

They are not mutually exclusive, you can be both prone and grappled.

They are both free actions, so the only limit on whether you can do both is the GM deciding it's too many free actions. The GM has an absolute right to say how many free actions are allowed in a round.

PRD Free actions wrote:

You can perform one or more free actions while taking another action normally. However, there are reasonable limits on what you can really do for free, as decided by the GM.

This is not covered within the rules, but if there is a choice to be made about order of actions then conventionally the controller of those actions chooses the order they apply.