D&D 3E/3.5 [3.5] Wildshape

[youspoonybard]

Well, the Druid really isn't unarmed; she's attacking with natural weapons.

Kinda like 2-handed fighting, but without the penalties.

The monk is using his whole body to make up for the fact that he only has fists, not claws.

 

[Iku Rex]

The bolded sentence provides evidence of the gaining of natural attacks; the last sentence throws it into doubt.

In the first printing of the 3.0 PH, polymorph other explicitly granted you the attack routines of the new form. This was quickly errataed, and the bolded sentence you quoted is pretty much identical to what they came up with in the errata file for 3.0. If anything that sentence suggests that you don't get attack routines.

The last sentence is another oddity carried over from 3.0 . I'm not sure if even the game designers understand what it's supposed to mean.

Stupid new wildshape rules!

Bah. It's all part of a great tradition.

http://boards1.wizards.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=65301
(WotC boards thread on polymorph.)

 

[youspoonybard]

The point is, though, "attack routines" ceased to exist in 3.5.

There are now clear rules on how to fight with manufactured weapons, natural weapons, or mixtures of both.

So they got rid of the whole "attack routine" convention altogether.