So a friend of mine is playing a dungeoncrasher 6/lion totem barbarian 1 with knockback and needs 1-2 level dips before taking deepwarden.
Before I give bad advice I wanted to doublecheck if what I am suggesting is legal.
Q 239: If he takes some warblade levels and get battle leaders charge, could he then still pounce on his charge in that round? And could he still use knockback for bull rushes with those attacks?
Not sure on that, as per RAW. We don't allow it in our games, and I think it's not legal. What I would suggest Warblade as an option even so, other options are Totemist 2, Incarnate, Feat Rogue 2. Another option is just 3 more levels of Fighter (or 4...), to get the final Zentharim Fight sub. level - that's worth 3 levels.
Because strikes allow for a specific form of attack,
you cannot benefit from spells or effects that grant
you extra attacks when making a strike (such as the
haste spell or a speed weapon). You are not taking a
full attack action when you initiate a strike, even
if its initiation action is 1 full-round action. In
addition, you cannot combine special attacks
such as sunder or bull rush with strikes, even
if you have feats that make such special attacks
more potent. However, some strikes enable you
to make special attacks as part of their initiation;
see the specifi c maneuver descriptions in Chapter
4 for details.
The way I understand it is, that I take a fullround action for the strike, which lets me do a charge. And at the end of the charge pounce could trigger, because it lets you make a full attack after a charge and not an additional attack on a fullattack like haste or speed weapon. And on those full attack hits I could make knockbacks, trips, whatever, but not on the chargeattack, because it is the maneuver strike.
