How Combat Works

Combat Statistics

• Attack Roll
• Attack Bonus
• Damage
  • Minimum Damage
  • Strength Bonus
    • Off-Hand Weapon
    • Wielding a Weapon Two-Handed
  • Multiplying Damage
  • Ability Damage
• Armor Class
  • Other Modifiers
    • Enhancement Bonuses
    • Deflection Bonus
    • Natural Armor
    • Dodge Bonuses
  • Touch Attacks
• Hit Points
• Speed
• Saving Throws
  • Saving Throw Types
    • Fortitude
    • Reflex
    • Will
  • Saving Throw Difficulty Class
  • Automatic Failures and Successes

Initiative

• Initiative Checks
• Flat-Footed
• Inaction
• Surprise
  • Determining Awareness
  • The Surprise Round
  • Unaware Combatants

Attacks Of Opportunity

• Threatened Squares
  • Reach Weapons
• Provoking an AoO
  • Moving
  • Performing a Distracting Act
• Making an AoO
  • Combat Reflexes and AoOs

Actions In Combat

• The Combat Round
• Action Types
• Standard Actions
  • Attack
  • Cast a Spell
  • Activate Magic Item
  • Use Special Ability
  • Total Defense
  • Start/Complete Full-Round Action
• Move Actions
  • Move
  • Draw or Sheathe a Weapon
  • Ready or Loose a Shield
  • Manipulate an Item
  • Direct or Redirect a Spell
  • Stand Up
  • Mount/Dismount a Steed
• Full-Round Actions
  • Full Attack
  • Cast a Spell
  • Use Special Ability
  • Withdraw
  • Run
  • Move 5 Feet through Difficult Terrain
• Free Actions
  • Drop an Item
  • Drop Prone
  • Speak
  • Cease Concentration on Spell
• Swift Actions
• Immediate Actions
• Miscellaneous Actions
  • Take 5-Foot Step
  • Use Feat
  • Use Skill

Injury and Death

• Loss Of Hit Points
  • Massive Damage
• Disabled (0 Hit Points)
• Dying (-1 to -9 Hit Points)
• Dead (-10 Hit Points or Lower)
• Stable Characters and Recovery
• Healing
• Temporary Hit Points
• Nonlethal Damage

Movement, Position,
and Distance

• Tactical Movement
  • Measuring Distance
  • Moving through a Square
  • Terrain and Obstacles
  • Special Movement Rules
• Big and Little Creatures In Combat

Combat Modifiers

• Favorable and Unfavorable Conditions
• Cover
• Concealment
• Flanking
• Helpless Defenders
  • Regular Attack
  • Coup de Grace
• Weapon, Armor, and Shield Proficiency

Special Attacks

• Aid Another
• Bull Rush
• Charge
• Disarm
  • Grabbing Items
• Feint
• Grapple
  • Grapple Checks
  • Starting a Grapple
  • Grappling Consequences
  • If You’re Grappling
  • If You’re Pinning an Opponent
  • If You’re Pinned by an Opponent
  • Joining a Grapple
  • Multiple Grapplers
• Mounted Combat
• Overrun
• Sunder
• Throw Splash Weapon
• Trip
• Turn Or Rebuke Undead
  • Turning Checks
  • Evil Clerics and Undead
  • Neutral Clerics and Undead
  • Paladins and Undead
  • Turning Other Creatures
• Two-Weapon Fighting
  • Double Weapons
  • Thrown Weapons
  • Shield Bash Attacks

Special Initiative Actions

• Delay
• Ready