Chokehold

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Ultimate Combat

While grappling, you can cut off an opponent’s air and blood supply.

Feat Type(s)

Combat

Prerequisites

Improved Grapple
Improved Unarmed Strike
base attack bonus +6 or monk level 5th

Benefit

While you have an opponent up to one size category larger than you grappled, you can attempt a grapple combat maneuver with a –5 penalty on the check. If you succeed, you have pinned your opponent and hold the opponent in a chokehold. When you maintain the grapple, you also maintain the chokehold. A creature in a chokehold cannot breathe or speak, and thus cannot cast spells that have a verbal component. An opponent you have in a chokehold has to hold his breath or begin suffocating. Any creature that does not breathe, is immune to bleed damage, or is immune to critical hits is immune to the effects of your chokehold. When the grapple is ended, so is the chokehold.

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Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Ultimate Combat

SECTION 15

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Core Rulebook, Copyright 2010, Paizo Publishing, LLC; Author: Jason Bulmahn, based on material by Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, and Skip Williams.
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Ultimate Combat, Copyright 2011, Paizo Publishing, LLC; Authors: Jason Bulmahn, Tim Hitchcock, Colin McComb, Rob McCreary, Jason Nelson, Stephen Radney-MacFarland, Sean K Reynolds, Owen K.C. Stephens, and Russ Taylor.
Marid from the Tome of Horrors III, Copyright 2005, Necromancer Games, Inc.; Author: Scott Greene.
System Reference Document, Copyright 2000, Wizards of the Coast, Inc.; Authors Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams, based on material by E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson.