Improved Impaling Critical

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Ultimate Combat

When you impale a target, you hinder its movement and can cause severe bleeding.

Feat Type(s)

Prerequisites

Impaling Critical
Critical Focus
Weapon Specialization with selected piercing melee weapon
base attack bonus +13

Benefit

While you are using Impaling Critical to impale an opponent, and you are still holding onto that weapon, that opponent must succeed at a grapple combat maneuver check against you to pull your weapon out. If you have let go of your weapon, the impaled opponent must spend a standard action to remove the weapon. Until the opponent pulls the weapon out, his speed in all modes is halved and his maneuverability, if any, is reduced by one step. When the weapon comes out, instead of dealing the damage normal for Impaling Critical, you can deal bleed damage equal to your weapon’s damage dice result once per round at the start of that opponent’s turn.

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Sources:

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.
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