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|author_name=Luigifan18
|date_created=November 4th, 2012
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<onlyinclude>{{3.5e Maneuver
|name=Inescapable Embrace
|discipline=Chthonic Serpent
|type=Stance
|desc=See text
|lvl=9
|prereq=Seven Chthonic Serpent maneuvers, Str 14, Dex 16; see text
|initiation=1 swift action
|range=Personal
|tsea=t
|subj=You
|dur=Stance
|save=None
|summary=Perfectly synergize your grappling prowess and your [[SRD:Use Rope Skill|Use Rope]] skill, with each ability adding to the other. If you have [[Binding Growth (3.5e Feat)|Binding Growth]], you become an inescapable predator.
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''Your whip and your ropes are extensions of yourself. Once you latch on to someone, you '''never''' let go. There's no escape from your grasp. None at all. Those who you capture are your prisoners '''for eternity'''.''

You gain a bonus to [[SRD:Grapple|grapple]] checks equal to your ranks in [[SRD:Use Rope Skill|Use Rope]]. In addition, you gain a bonus to [[SRD:Use Rope Skill|Use Rope]] checks equal to your total bonus on [[SRD:Grapple|grapple]] checks (which ''does'' allow you to effectively double the value of your ranks in [[SRD:Use Rope Skill|Use Rope]]).

Special: If you have the [[Binding Growth (3.5e Feat)|Binding Growth]] feat, you may ignore one of the two ability score prerequisites. In addition, your Binding Growth is made ''much'' more effective by being in this stance. You may place a Binding Growth on another creature with a ranged touch attack (its range equal to the reach of your Chthonic Serpent weapon or 5 feet/3 initiator levels, whichever is higher); if you hit, your target must immediately succeed on a grapple check against you (taking a &minus;10 penalty on her grapple check) or be [[SRD:Helpless|helplessly]] wrapped up in your Binding Growth within 1d4 rounds (the target can continue making grapple checks to escape until the growth is complete, but each successive round imposes a further &minus;5 penalty). The [[SRD:DC|DC]] to place a Binding Growth on a foe you have pinned or lifted becomes the target's grapple modifier or [[SRD:Escape Artist Skill|Escape Artist]] modifier, whichever is lower (instead of 10 + the target's grapple modifier), and you may make a [[SRD:Use Rope Skill|Use Rope]] check instead of a grapple check to place the Binding Growth without affecting the time it takes to apply it; all of this means that the Binding Growth can be placed much more easily if you decide to do it conventionally. A slashing weapon must do damage in excess of 10 + 2&times;your HD points of damage to break the bonds, and the bonds' [[SRD:Armor Class|AC]] increases to 15 + 2&times;your [[SRD:Constitution|Constitution]] modifier. The [[SRD:DC|DC]] to break the bonds with a [[SRD:Strength|Strength]] check becomes 25 + 2&times;your [[SRD:Constitution|Constitution]] modifier, while the [[SRD:DC|DC]] to break them with an [[SRD:Escape Artist Skill|Escape Artist]] check becomes 20 + 2&times;your HD + 2&times;your [[SRD:Constitution|Constitution]] modifier. Even if the Binding Growth somehow gets broken, it continues to [[SRD:Entangled|entangle]] the victim for 3d6 rounds, and you automatically succeed on any attempts to put the Binding Growth back on while the victim remains [[SRD:Entangled|entangled]]. You may also partially (or completely) remove and replace your own Binding Growth on a creature you've already bound, which allows you to do pretty much anything you want with it. If you are not in this stance, Binding Growth operates as normal (see its feat description).

If you have the [[Chthonic Grip (3.5e Feat)|Chthonic Grip]] feat (but ''not'' the [[SRD:Improved Grapple|Improved Grapple]] feat), you may ignore one of the two ability score prerequisites. (This means that if you have both Binding Growth and Chthonic Grip, you don't need to meet either of the ability score prerequisites.) You may also, at your option, make all constriction damage you inflict nonlethal with no penalty, and you may use [[Bonds of Jörmungandr (3.5e_Maneuver)|''bonds of Jörmungandr'']] (if you know it) to render a creature unconscious for 24 hours instead of outright killing it (again with no penalty).
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Article Balance	High +
Author	Luigifan18 +
Descriptor	See text +
Discipline	Chthonic Serpent +
Identifier	3.5e Maneuver +
Level	9 +
Rated By	Fluffykittens +, ThunderGod Cid + and DanielDraco +
Rating	Rating Pending +
Summary	Perfectly synergize your grappling prowess and your Use Rope skill, with each ability adding to the other. If you have Binding Growth, you become an inescapable predator. +
Title	Inescapable Embrace +
Type	Stance +