feat Improved Overrun

Improved Overrun (General)

Prerequisites: Strength 13, Power Attack.
Benefit: When you attempt to overrun an opponent, the target may not choose to avoid you. You also gain a +4 bonus on your Strength check to knock down your opponent.
Normal: Without this feat, the target of an overrun can choose to avoid you or to block you.
Special: A fighter may select Improved Overrun as one of his fighter bonus feats.

How Improved Overrun Works

Improved Overrun prevents the target from simply choosing to avoid the overrun attempt. If the opponent blocks you, the feat also gives +4 on the Strength check used to knock that opponent down.

Improved Overrun Example

A warrior attempts to force a path through an enemy standing in a narrow passage. The enemy cannot choose to step aside and avoid the attempt. If the overrun reaches the opposed Strength-check stage, the warrior adds +4 from Improved Overrun.

When It Is Useful

Breaking through a blocking enemy to reach a position beyond it.
Strength-focused characters who already have Power Attack.
Encounters where movement and controlling space matter as much as dealing damage.

See the Feats index for other combat manoeuvre options.