| Youneko |
Impact Critical Shot (Combat, Critical)
Prerequisite: Dex 13, Point-Blank Shot, base attack bonus +9.
Benefit: Whenever you score a critical hit with a ranged attack, in addition to the normal damage your attack deals, if your confirmation roll exceeds your opponent’s CMD, you can push your opponent back as if from the bull rush combat maneuver or knock that target prone as if from a trip combat maneuver. If you choose to bull rush, you cannot move with the target. Your maneuver does not provoke an attack of opportunity.
Normal: You must perform a bull rush combat maneuver to bull rush an opponent, and you must perform a trip combat maneuver to trip an opponent.
Greater Bull Rush (Combat)
Prerequisites: Improved Bull Rush, Power Attack, base attack bonus +6, Str 13.
Benefit: You receive a +2 bonus on checks made to bull rush a foe. This bonus stacks with the bonus granted by Improved Bull Rush. Whenever you bull rush an opponent, his movement provokes attacks of opportunity from all of your allies (but not you).
Normal: Creatures moved by bull rush do not provoke attacks of opportunity.
I wonder how these two feats work together? Impact Critical Shot seems quite special yet it still has its effects resolved as maneuvers. So would Greater Bull Rush, or any other effect that works on bull rush maneuver apply on the effect caused by Impact Critical Shot?
| RAWmonger |
So. Here’s my understanding of how it works. You *do not* get the attack bonuses from having the improved/greater feats, since you’re rolling a critical confirmation, and only *after* confirming do you get the free maneuver. However, since it is your character performing the maneuver, you gain any benefits to the combat maneuver you would normally get after rolling. In your instance:
“Whenever you bull rush an opponent, his movement provokes attacks of opportunity from all of your allies (but not you). ”
So in summation for your specific example, you do not gain the +2 to your confirmation roll from improved bull rush, but you do gain the additional effect of the enemy provoking AoO from allies.