Questions tagged [natural-weapon]
For questions about natural weapons. A natural weapon generally refers to any natural innate appendage or orifice that can be used to attack with. Creatures with natural weapons do not require a weapon to attack with in the traditional sense.
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If a Lizardfolk druid is in Wild Shape, and uses his Hungry Jaws trait, does he use the damage from the beast's bite or the lizardfolk's bite?
Lizardfolk have a feature that gives them natural weapons in the form of their jaws. This bite deals 1d6+Str damage.
Hungry Jaws. In battle, you can throw yourself into a vicious feeding frenzy. As ...
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How do multiple natural attacks work?
Okay, I need some clarification. The Pathfinder Core Rules state this about natural attacks:
You do not receive additional natural attacks for a high base attack bonus. Instead, you receive ...
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Can a dragonborn bite enemies?
One of my players is a dragonborn and wants to know if he can bite enemies. I didn't see anything in the rules about this, does anyone know how it works?
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Do natural weapons work with the Booming Blade spell?
As far as I can tell, there are three different ways that "natural weapons" are described:
Aarakocra:
Talons: You are proficient with your unarmed strikes, which deal 1d4 slashing damage on a hit.
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Do natural melee weapons (from racial traits) trigger Improved Divine Smite?
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Does Improved Divine Smite trigger when a paladin makes an unarmed strike?
Improved Divine Smite will not trigger on an unarmed strike.
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The paladin in my campaign – ...
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Can you ready an action to attack a monster's natural weapon (a part of its body) with reach?
In my current OOTA Group my party fought against a rocktopus. They attacked them from the ceiling out of reach for melee attacks.
Is it possible for the players to ready an attack with the trigger "...
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What happens if a character gains natural weapons they already have?
My character has a bite attack from his race. What happens if he gains another bite attack from class abilities or spells? Does the damage increase? Can he make more than one attack? Or is it ...
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Are PC Natural Weapons particularly useful?
At my table, it is generally understood that Dragonborn are mechanically underpowered but flavourwise really cool. For the purpose of this question, I'd like to just take these opinions for granted. ...
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Does having natural weapons prevent a multiclassed druid/monk from using Martial Arts while in Wild Shape?
The monk's Martial Arts feature's benefits all require a monk to be "unarmed or only wielding monk weapons". Even if you're a Way of the Kensei monk, that only lets you add a couple of new ...
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Can an Eldritch Knight bond with a natural weapon?
Let's say an Eldritch Knight (lvl 8) casts Alter Self and gains claws as natural weapons, could he then create a Weapon Bond with his claws?
Alternatively, could you be a Minotaur race then Weapon ...
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What are natural weapons?
I am seeing some magical items that refer to natural weapons, but I can't find information about what they actually are. I don't remember seeing it in the Player's Handbook, and googling it isn't ...
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Can the Magic Weapon spell be cast on a natural weapon?
My understanding is that Natural Weapons are considered Weapons, for example for the purpose of the Improved Divine Smite ability (see discussion here).
Yet, according to Jeremy Crawford it is not ...
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With Two-Weapon Fighting, can the second attack be a bite attack?
My son is keen to use a lizardfolk with bite attack as a character. We are assuming the second attack can be a bite as the offhand attack, which seems reasonable. But then he also wants to use a ...
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Can a monk's unarmed strikes be enchanted?
I see a lot of forums calling for Kensai and Amulet of Mighty Fists for a monk to enchant their unarmed strikes. I feel it is unnecessary since the SRD states:
A monk’s unarmed strike is treated ...
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How do natural weapons interact with the Dueling fighting style?
Many creatures in D&D have natural weapons. Player characters can often get natural weapons themselves - whether simply by picking a race that has a natural weapon as part of a racial trait (so ...
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Can Spiritual Weapon summon a natural weapon?
Going back to my halfling cleric of Bahamut -- I RPed him casting Spiritual Weapon as summoning a dragon's head down to chomp on his foes (same damage die, of course). Is reskinning Spiritual Weapon ...
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Can natural weapons be used for unarmed strikes?
While there are several similar questions they all seem to deal with 3.5 or Pathfinder. This question may contain the key to the answer for this, but focuses on Wildshape, doesn't have an accepted ...
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How to describe very damaging natural weapon attacks from a weak creature
I have a 3rd level Ratfolk Unchained Rogue character in a Pathfinder campaign who uses the Sharpclaw racial feat. He's currently dishing out D4+Dex+2D6 (avg 13.5) damage on a Sneak Attack using ...
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Are there any rules for sundering natural weapons?
Many monsters have very dangerous natural attacks (like scorpion's poisonous sting, for example). Sometimes players come to a decision to severe the natural weapon first and then deal with a much less ...
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Do natural weapons have the Finesse property?
Alter Self allows a character to have Natural Weapons. IIRC, in previous editions, Unarmed Strikes and Natural Weapons were considered Finesse-able (i.e., if you had the Feat, they would use Dex ...
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Do Natural Weapons count as Unarmed Attacks?
I have a barbarian who has 2 natural claw attacks.
Do these attacks count as Unarmed or is there a difference between the two?
I'm asking because I'm considering giving him the Improved Unarmed ...
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Different kinds of natural attacks require multiple instances of the Improved Critical feat
I can pick Improved Critical to enhance my natural attacks, no? When I pick the feat, is it tied to a specific natural attack or all of them?
For example, lets say I have a bite attack and two claw ...
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Do natural weapons count for two weapon fighting?
Do natural weapons such as those granted by being a Tabaxi or an Aarakocra count for the purposes of two weapon fighting? Would they have the light property to allow it and if not what about if you ...
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Can a Synthesist wear Boots of Speed and still have his eidolon make claw attacks with those feet?
Can a Synthesist Summoner wear Boots of Speed and still have his eidolon make claw attacks with those feet? While rational thought would say that wearing boots would cover up any claws on the hind ...
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How does a dire toad's tongue attack work?
An upcoming encounter with a dire toad (Monster Manual II 74, 76) has me concerned with its tongue attack. The stat block lists the creature's tongue Attack as tongue +5 ranged and the creature's ...
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Do alignment subtypes allow natural weapons to bypass regeneration?
Regeneration in D&D 3.5 is pretty weird on its own, but a discussion with some friends today made me realize that, as far as I can tell, alignment subtypes allow a creature to bypass damage ...
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Are the attacks of a Wild Shaped druid considered weapon attacks?
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My character is a druid 3 / ranger 2. I'm considering taking Hunter's Mark as one of my ranger spells, but I'm not sure whether it would trigger while attacking in Wild Shape. The spell says:
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Can a creature with one natural attack and no weapons benefit from feats that require the use of two-handed weapons?
So I have a bear-dog animal companion with only a bite natural attack, then she adds 1.5 times her Strength modifier to damage rolls with it. She has Power Attack both for extra damage and as a ...
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Do "natural weapons" count as being unarmed?
One of the Uratha in our pack has the first dot of the Unarmed Defense merit:
From God Machine Chronicles, p65:
Like a Book (*): ... When facing an unarmed opponent and not Dodging, increase your ...
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Do Natural Attacks count as Unarmed?
Several spells and powers, e.g. Dinosaur Form, give you:
natural melee attacks, which are the only types of attacks you can use.
Items such as the Handwraps of Mighty Fists:
give your unarmed ...
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Can natural weapons be simple or martial weapons?
Natural weapons are considered to be melee weapons rather than unarmed.
I see in this answer that natural weapons are neither simple nor martial weapons, but this seems to be an assumption that I can'...
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What happens when you sunder a natural weapon?
Under the sunder rules you can destroy things by dealing them damage by using the combat maneuver rules? If you are having a hard time with attack roles, could you switch to CMB checks. Granted this ...
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Am I handling Natural Weapons incorrectly?
I'm still a little new to this so excuse the ignorance, but I haven't found this explicitly answered elsewhere.
I have a player with a big cat animal companion. It has a bite and two claw attacks. ...
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Can a creature with a natural weapon that has reach make an attack through the Antilife Shell spell?
The Antilife Shell spell states:
An affected creature can cast spells or make attacks with ranged or reach weapons through the barrier.
This suggests that a human could attack with a glaive, since ...
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Stacking size damages
My question is mainly concerning Eidolons and damage stacking abilities.
An eidolon has an evolution called Improved damage that states it increases the die rolls for a specific attack by one step.
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Do natural attacks and monks unarmed damage stack?
Normally beings without claws do very low damage and the monks unarmed damage increases this. Now the question is though what if the character in question comes from a species that has bite or claw ...
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How do multiple attacks with natural weapons work?
I'm planning a character that has 2 claw attacks and a tail attack as natural weapons, but now I'm a little confused about the mechanics of using them all.
Can both claws be used at once as a ...
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Does the Lesser Beast Totem upscale to 1d8 claw damage for large creatures?
I have a half-giant barbarian (built from the Advanced Races Guide). I've reached 2nd level and have taken the Lesser Beast Totem rage power.
I've noticed that the claws only mention scaling down ...
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Can you deal non-lethal sneak attack damage with natural weapons?
Can you deal non-lethal sneak attack damage with natural weapons?
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What's the point of claw weapons/natural weapons?
I'm rolling an Abyssal Bloodrager which gets Claws at level 1. I THINK the point of the claws is that they give higher max damage than normal weapons at level one. Can someone check my math? If I'm ...
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Do natural weapons, such as claws, count as weapon attacks or unarmed attacks? [closed]
I plan to play a character with class levels and natural weapons, such as claws. Specifically, I'm interested it making her claws her primary weapons. What feats or class features would (or wouldn't)...
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Piranha Strike with Claws
What is the interaction of Piranha Strike with creature using multiple Claw natural weapons? Since natural weapons are light weapons, I'm wondering it it would apply to all claw attacks in a full ...
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Does fighting underwater impair natural attacks?
In a game I'm in we have ventured underwater into the ocean. I play a summoner, my eidolon has gills, a swim speed, a Bite, 2 claws, and a tentacle attack. How would being underwater effect his damage ...
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In Pathfinder 1E, how do Greater Magic Fang and Amulet of Mighty Fists stack
My animal companion has an Amulet of Mighty Fists that only gives me, say, +1, Frost, without any enhancement bonus. So it's a +2 equivalency, with a +1 enhancement bonus.
Let's say that I then cast a ...
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What are the properties of Dragon Hide natural weapons?
The Dragon Hide racial feat (XGtE, p. 74) gives you claws. It states that
The claws are natural weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes.
In general, unarmed strikes aren't considered ...
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Is it possible to stack multiple claws from bloodlines/feats/class abilities?
I have a player that currently has Aspect of the Beast and has chosen Claws of the Beast. This grants him a pair of claws. He would also like to take Eldritch Heritage and take the Abyssal Bloodline ...
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Can charnel touch be used in place of a natural attack?
One PC is a darfellan from Stormwrack that's taken levels in the class dread necromancer from Heroes of Horror. A darfellan has a natural bite attack that can be used as a secondary natural weapon ...
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Is it possible to trip with natural weapon?
Usually trip action requires one to use an unarmed attack or a special trip weapon. Is it possible to trip using a natural weapon?
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Do pouncing animal companions get STR modifier bonuses to Rake attacks?
I have a level 11 druid with a lion animal companion. He gets Pounce, Grab, and Multiattack. If I pounce and get five attacks (bite, 2 claws, 2 rakes), do I apply my STR mod to the rake damage?
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Are Rake, Rend and Constrict Natural Weapons?
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Rake states:
A creature with this special attack gains extra natural attacks when it grapples its foe.
Rend states:
If a creature hits with both claw attacks, it latches ...