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Multiple Attacks for Monsters?
- Thread starter Ogrork the Mighty
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CRGreathouse
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Hypersmurf said:No, he's right - in 3E, it was Slam melee +16/+11/+6.
Elementals got iterative Slams as well.
Slams seem to be treated as an exception in 3E - more like 'armed' unarmed strikes than natural attacks, or something
Well, they were only sometimes an exception to the rules. Animated objects had non-iteratve slams, as did delvers and balors. (I'm sure there are other examples as well.)
Patryn of Elvenshae
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Ahah ... Sorry, CR.
CRGreathouse
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Patryn of Elvenshae said:Ahah ... Sorry, CR.
Oh, no trouble at all. It's good to point out mistakes; even if it ends up being right in some way (in this case, in 3.0), it helps to clear up ambiguous posts. I should have mentioned "in 3.0", but I didn't.
The feat you are looking for is Multiwaepon fighting (which you could apply to multiple heads with little difficulty). Basically, it's for monsters with lots of arms (or other appendages that hurt) and it takes the place of two-weapon fighting feat for creatures with more than two arms.
In conjunction with that feat, you have multiattack, which allows a creature with three of more natural attacks to take their secondary attacks wih natural weapons as a -2 (rather than the normal -5).
These feats grant multiple attacks to monsters outside of the "more attacks due to high BAB". For example, the monster I just finished editing for Monster Geographica: Forest is a 4 armed humaniod (level 1 warrior, BaB +1, Str 13, Dex 16) with natural weapons as well as a propensity for short swords with the multiweapon fighting feat, but not the multiattack feat.
Here's his attack and full attack line.
Attack: Short sword +2 melee (1d6+1/19-20) or claw +2 melee (1d4+1) or longbow +4 ranged (1d8/x3)
Full Attack: Short sword +0 melee (1d6+1/19-20) and 3 short swords +0 melee (1d6/19-20) and bite -3 melee (1d6) or 4 claws +2 melee (1d4+1) and bite -3 melee (1d6); or longbow +4 ranged (1d8/x3)
Hope that helps. God, I've been spending too much time editing monsters....
Edit: BTW, this is using 3.5 rules
In conjunction with that feat, you have multiattack, which allows a creature with three of more natural attacks to take their secondary attacks wih natural weapons as a -2 (rather than the normal -5).
These feats grant multiple attacks to monsters outside of the "more attacks due to high BAB". For example, the monster I just finished editing for Monster Geographica: Forest is a 4 armed humaniod (level 1 warrior, BaB +1, Str 13, Dex 16) with natural weapons as well as a propensity for short swords with the multiweapon fighting feat, but not the multiattack feat.
Here's his attack and full attack line.
Attack: Short sword +2 melee (1d6+1/19-20) or claw +2 melee (1d4+1) or longbow +4 ranged (1d8/x3)
Full Attack: Short sword +0 melee (1d6+1/19-20) and 3 short swords +0 melee (1d6/19-20) and bite -3 melee (1d6) or 4 claws +2 melee (1d4+1) and bite -3 melee (1d6); or longbow +4 ranged (1d8/x3)
Hope that helps. God, I've been spending too much time editing monsters....
Edit: BTW, this is using 3.5 rules
