MOVEMENT, MODIFIERS, SPECIAL ACTIONS

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• Concealment - To determine whether your target has concealment from your ranged attack, choose a corner of your square.
• Concealment And Hide Checks - You can use concealment to make a Hide check. Without concealment, you usually need cover to make a Hide check.
• Concealment Miss Chance - Concealment gives the subject of a successful attack a 20% chance that the attacker missed because of the concealment.
• Ignoring Concealment - Concealment isn't always effective. A shadowy area or darkness doesn't...
• Total Concealment - If you have line of effect to a target but not line of sight he is considered to have total concealment from you.
• Varying Degrees Of Concealment - Certain situations may provide more or less than typical concealment, and modify the miss chance accordingly.
• Cover - To determine whether your target has cover from your ranged attack, choose a corner of your square.
• Big Creatures And Cover - Any creature with a space larger than 5 feet (1 square) determines cover...
• Cover And Attacks Of Opportunity - You can't execute an attack of opportunity against an opponent with cover relative to you.
• Cover And Hide Checks - You can use cover to make a Hide check. Without cover, you usually need concealment (see below) to make a Hide check.
• Cover And Reflex Saves - Cover grants you a +2 bonus on Reflex saves against attacks that originate...
• Low Obstacles And Cover - A low obstacle (such as a wall no higher than half your height) provides...
• Soft Cover - Creatures, even your enemies, can provide you with cover against ranged attacks, giving you a +4 bonus to AC.
• Total Cover - If you don't have line of effect to your target he is considered to have total cover from you.
• Varying Degrees Of Cover - In some cases, cover may provide a greater bonus to AC and Reflex saves.
• Favorable And Unfavorable Conditions
• Table: Armor Class Modifiers
• Table: Attack Roll Modifiers
• Flanking - When making a melee attack, you get a +2 flanking bonus if your opponent...
• Helpless Defenders - A helpless opponent is someone who is bound, sleeping, paralyzed, unconscious, or otherwise at your mercy.
• Coup De Grace - As a full-round action, you can use a melee weapon to deliver a coup de grace to a helpless opponent.
• Regular Attack - A helpless character takes a -4 penalty to AC against melee attacks, but no penalty to AC against ranged attacks.
• Movement, Position, And Distance - Miniatures are on the 30mm scale-a miniature figure of a six-foot-tall human is approximately 30mm tall.
• Big And Little Creatures In Combat - Creatures smaller than Small or larger than Medium have special rules relating to position.
• Tactical Movement
• Special Attacks
• Aid Another - In melee combat, you can help a friend attack or defend by distracting or interfering with an opponent.
• Bull Rush - You can make a bull rush as a standard action (an attack) or as part of a charge (see Charge, below).
• Charge - Charging is a special full-round action that allows you to move up to twice your speed and attack during the action.
• Disarm - As a melee attack, you may attempt to disarm your opponent.
• Feint - Feinting is a standard action. To feint, make a Bluff check opposed by a Sense Motive check by your target.
• Grapple - Grapple Checks Repeatedly in a grapple, you need to make opposed grapple checks against an opponent.
• Mounted Combat
• Overrun - You can attempt an overrun as a standard action taken during your move.
• Sunder - You can use a melee attack with a slashing or bludgeoning weapon to strike a weapon or shield that your opponent is holding.
• Table: Special Attacks
• Throw Splash Weapon - A splash weapon is a ranged weapon that breaks on impact, splashing or...
• Trip - You can try to trip an opponent as an unarmed melee attack.
• Turn Or Rebuke Undead - Good clerics and paladins and some neutral clerics can channel positive...
• Two-Weapon Fighting - If you wield a second weapon in your off hand, you can get one extra attack per round with that weapon.
• Special Initiative Actions - Here are ways to change when you act during combat by altering your place in the initiative order.
• Delay - By choosing to delay, you take no action and then act normally on whatever initiative count you decide to act.
• Ready - The ready action lets you prepare to take an action later, after your turn is over but before your next one has begun.