3.0 - Iterative attacks with slam?

[Mr. Patient]

In 3.0, it appears that creatures with a single slam attack (e.g., Huge earth elementals) get iterative attacks due to a high BAB. As far as I can tell, this is the only case where a natural weapon gets an iterative attack, and it's applied pretty consistently. But I can't find anything in the rules about it. Does anyone know if this is actually specified anywhere? Thanks.

 

[shilsen]

You shouldn't be getting iterative attacks with a slam, which is why that was removed from the elementals in 3.5.

 

[Mr. Patient]

Thanks, I didn't think so. But the 3.0 MM and MM2 are just full of creatures with iterative slam attacks: elementals, shield guardians, corpse gatherers, runic guardians, weirds, tempests, maybe more. It's consistent enough that it almost seems like an exception to the general rule about natural attacks, but I can't find it stated anywhere one way or the other, and there don't seem to be any errata covering it. Although now that I'm looking at it more closely, I see a few creatures that violate the pattern, like animated objects and teratomorphs. Looks like something that should have been corrected and never was (until 3.5, that is).