Ultimate Cleave (3.5e Feat)

Ultimate Cleave [General, Fighter]

You can transfer some of the damage you inflict on a powerful blow to your next cleave attack.

Prerequisite

Str 13, Power Attack, Cleave, Base attack bonus +6

Benefit

Once per round when using your Cleave or Great Cleave feats, all damage inflicted beyond that needed to drop your opponent is gained as a damage bonus on your extra cleave attack. This damage bonus only applies against the opponent targeted by your extra cleave attack and is lost if this attack misses.

Example

Bron, a 6th level dwarven fighter with Cleave, Great Cleave and Ultimate Cleave, is in combat with 3 goblins (each with 6 hit points). Bron hits on his first attack, inflicts 12 points of damage and reduces the first goblin to -6 hit points, triggering a cleave attack. Since he has Ultimate Cleave, he disembowels the first goblin and gains a +5 damage bonus on his cleave attack (6-1 = 5). He slays the second goblin with this attack, triggering another cleave attack, but does not gain an additional damage bonus because he's already used Ultimate Cleave that round.

--

Author: Eric D. Harry © Eric D. Harry 2001   This feat is from the NBoF, please see NBoF Credits.

NBoF Balance Rating (0 to 5 Scale)

Overall	Purp	Pow	Port	Comp	Rule
3.80	3.67	3.67	4.00	3.67	4.00

---

Back to Dungeons and Dragons	->DnD Feats	->DnD General Feats.
		->DnD Fighter Feats.

This page is protected from editing because it is distributed under the OGL. Please discuss possible problems or changes on the talk page.

Open Game Content (place problems on the discussion page).

This is a NBoF Feat. It is covered by the Open Game License v1.0a, rather than the GNU Free Documentation License 1.3. To distinguish it, these items will have this notice. If you see any page that contains NBoF material and does not show this license statement, please contact an admin so that this license statement can be added. It is our intent to work within this license in good faith.