Fedorchik1536 wrote:
1. Some think that like in that other old pnprpg you need to choose Pin each round to maintain Pin on you opponent.
No. The Pinned Condition, according to the Core Rulebook, is a more extreme form of the Grappled Condition.
Core Rulebook, PRD, Glossary, Conditions, Pinned wrote:
Pinned is a more severe version of grappled, and their effects do not stack.
Every successful Grapple Check maintains the Pin just as it maintains the Grapple. Also, if your Pinned Opponent makes a successful Grapple Check, he can automatically break free, or be the one in control of the Grapple. You don't have to make 2 checks: 1 to break the Pin and the other to break the Grapple.
Core Rulebook, Combat, Special Attacks, Combat Maneuvers, Grapple, If you are grappled, wrote:
you can attempt to break the grapple as a standard action by making a combat maneuver check (DC equal to your opponent's CMD; this does not provoke an attack of opportunity) or Escape Artist check (with a DC equal to your opponent's CMD). If you succeed, you break the grapple and can act normally. Alternatively, if you succeed, you can become the grappler, grappling the other creature (meaning that the other creature cannot freely release the grapple without making a combat maneuver check, while you can).
Fedorchik1536 wrote:
2. Others think that once you Pin someone he stays pinned untill he escapes. (which is, IMO, a little OP since it completely shutdowns enemy at the cost of two actions).
No. You have to Spend actions, usually a Standard Action, to maintain the Pin, otherwise your victim automatically escapes. Just the same as with maintaining a Grapple, because a Pin is a kind of Grapple.
Core Rulebook, Combat, Special Attacks, Combat Maneuvers, Grapple wrote:
If you do not release the grapple, you must continue to make a check each round, as a standard action, to maintain the hold.
Fedorchik1536 wrote:
Second: Do Grab allows you to do free automatic damage in every situation or only if you choose to take -20 penalty and don't get grappled condition?
Grab doesn't allow you do what I would call "free automatic damage." Grab lets you do 2 things. 1: it gives you a +4 on all your Grapple Checks. 2: After a successful attack with the thing that give you Grab, you get a Free Action Attack which you can use to Initiate a Grapple. And there is 2a: if you are willing to take a -20 on your Grapple Check, if your attack is successful, your opponent is Grappled, but you aren't.
You are probably thinking of Constrict, which does let you inflict damage with every successful Grapple Check.
Fedorchik1536 wrote:
If you have Greater Grapple you can maintain twice per round. But! Do you need to actually maintain your grapple (i.e. wait to the round after you initiate grapple when you need to maintain grapple) or you just have option to do another grapple check every time you have someone grappled and a free move action to spare (for example when you initiate grapple or brake someone's grapple and choose to become primary grappler)?
You don't have to wait. Greater Grapple says you get to make 2 checks/round to harm your opponent: 1 as a Standard Action, 1 as a Move Action.
Core Rulebook, PRD, Feats, Greater Grapple wrote:
Once you have grappled a creature, maintaining the grapple is a move action. This feat allows you to make two grapple checks each round (to move, harm, or pin your opponent)
The Grapple Rules in the Core Rulebook say that once a Grapple is Initiated, subsequent checks allow you to both maintain the Grapple and do those other harmful things: Move, Damage, Pin, and Tie Up.
Core Rulebook, PRD, Combat, Special Attacks, Combat Maneuvers, Grapple wrote:
Once you are grappling an opponent, a successful check allows you to continue grappling the foe, and also allows you to perform one of the following actions... Move... Damage... Pin... Tie Up
Normally, every Grapple Check requires a Standard Action and has a Duration of 1 round. Normally, every Grapple check allows you maintain a Grapple from a previous round and do a grapple-related action. The first action you take has to be Initiate. You have to Pin your opponent before you can Tie Up your opponent.
But the whole point of Feats is that they give you special privileges. Greater Grapple lets you make a check as a Move Action. And it specifically allows you to make 2 checks/round. And the rules specifically say that once a Grapple has been Initiated, every successful check after that lets you do the other Grappling bad stuff.
