Maneuvers

Maneuvers are combat techniques that any character or monster can learn, regardless of class. They build on the Basic Maneuvers available to everyone. Any class can take a maneuver as a class feat, and a monster can take one as a role feat.

The Monster Maneuvers below require natural weapons, great size, or a monster power, so they are rarely available to PCs.

General Maneuvers

Assault

• Charge: Move in a straight line and attack with advantage.
• Slam: Make a powerful attack that deals bonus damage.
• Rend: Inflict a bleeding wound that deals ongoing damage.
• Overpower: Attack that cannot be parried or blocked.
• Execute: Devastating attack against wounded enemies.

Protection

• Defensive Stance: Protect allies within reach with extra reactions.
• Taunt: Force enemies to focus their attacks on you.
• Revenge: Store damage taken to add to your next attack.
• Intervene: Rush to intercept an attack meant for an ally.

Ranged

• Swift Aim: Aim as a swift action instead of standard.
• Quick Hands: Handle ranged weapons faster.
• Multi Shot: Fire at multiple targets in a cone.
• Precise Shot: Use Aim for special shot effects.
• Hunter's Mark: Mark a quarry so you and your allies strike it harder and can always find it.
• Rapid Fire: Loose a flurry of shots at the cost of accuracy.

Warlord

• Battle Shout: Grant allies bonus damage on their next attack.
• Coordinated Strike: Grant an ally an immediate attack on your target.

Skirmisher

• Spring Attack: Move, attack, and move again without provoking.

Group Fighting

• Cleave: Attack a second enemy after hitting the first.

Trickery

• Feint: Trick an enemy into wasting their reaction.
• Kick: Interrupt an enemy's spell with a melee attack.
• Pocket Sand: Blind an enemy with thrown sand.

Monster Maneuvers

Several of these build on Monster Powers such as Grab, Pounce, Multiattack, and Large.

Grappling

• Improved Grab: Hold a victim with a single limb, leaving the rest of you free to fight and move.
• Swallow Whole: Gulp down a grabbed creature at least two size categories smaller than you.
• Fling: Hurl a grabbed creature across the battlefield.
• Rake: Tear at a grabbed or pounced victim with your hind claws.
• Engulf: Flow over smaller creatures, trapping them inside your body.

Brute

• Improved Multiattack: Your extra attacks deal full damage, and you gain more of them.
• Sweep: Lash out with a tail or wing at every enemy around you.
• Bull Rush: Charge into an enemy and drive them back.
• Enrage: Fly into a rage when wounded, hitting harder but abandoning defense.

Defender

• Shield Wall: Fight in formation with other shield bearers for cover and stability.
• Bodyguard: Take a hit meant for an adjacent ally.