Grappling multiple opponents

[Jasobandito]

If you manage to grab more than one opponent in a turn on the following turn do you need to use 2 grapple actions to maintain both or do you make a single grapple role to maintain for both?

[HammerJack]

The Athletics action only affects a single target, regardless of whether you had people grabbed beforehand, so you still need to make 2 new grapple attempts. "Maintain" isn't really thing, like it was in 1E. (By which I mean there is no difference or advantage from an initial grapple attempt when you are making the grapple attempt to keep hold.)

The monster ability Grab does have the ability to extend the duration of grabs on multiple targets with a single action.

[Jasobandito]

Ok thanks!

Does that also mean that if you critically succeed on the grapple to cause them to be restrained you would then, in the next round, need to crit again to have them be restrained?

Or does "You can also Grapple to keep your hold on a creature you already grabbed." Mean that you continue to restrain the creature if you simply succeed?

[HammerJack]

I don't see any way that you wouldn't need to critical again.

[Castilliano]

Yeah, it doesn't seem like a maintain so much as grappling the enemy again before the current grapple expires; results may vary.

[HammerJack]

Well, there's kind of ptecedent here. It seeks to me that we're more following the Starfinder paradigm of grappling more than the PF1 paradigm (though without the ability to stack crazy bonuses to make getting the pon/restrain easy).