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Multiweapon Fighting - Is the Marilith's writeup wrong?

VorpalBunny

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After looking over the stats for the Marilith I'm now thoroughly confused about the armed full attack bonuses the marilith has. Her slam attacks/tail slap make sense - it's the longsword attacks that are making my eyes cross:

According to the 3.5 SRD:

Marilith:
Base Attack/Grapple: +16/+29
Attack: Longsword +25 melee (2d6+9/19–20) or slam +24 melee (1d8+9) or tail slap +24 melee (4d6+9)
Full Attack: Primary longsword +25/+20/+15/+10 melee (2d6+9/19–20) and 5 longswords +25 melee (2d6+4/19–20) and tail slap +22 melee (4d6+4); or 6 slams +24 melee (1d8+9) and tail slap +22 melee (4d6+4)
Feats: Combat Expertise, Combat Reflexes, Multiattack, Multiweapon Fighting, Power Attack, Weapon Focus (longsword)

+25/+20+/+15/+10 primary and +25 secondary?? If the marilith's BAB is +16 and she has a 29 Strength that's a total unmodified +25 melee attack bonus. Add in Multiweapon Fighting and the fact that her off hand weapons are not light, that's +21. The Weapon Focus brings it up to +22.

Where do they get +25 from? Is there errata for this or did I have a brain fart and miss something... :confused:
 

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VorpalBunny said:
Is there errata for this or did I have a brain fart and miss something... :confused:

You missed something.

"Feats: In combination with its natural abilities, a marilith's Multiweapon Fighting feat allows it to attack with all its arms at no penalty."
 
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VorpalBunny said:
Is there errata for this or did I have a brain fart and miss something... :confused:
No errata needed reread the Marilith entry.
SRD said:
Feats: In combination with its natural abilities, a marilith’s Multiweapon Fighting feat allows it to attack with all its arms at no penalty.
 

VorpalBunny said:
According to the 3.5 SRD:

+25/+20+/+15/+10 primary and +25 secondary?? If the marilith's BAB is +16 and she has a 29 Strength that's a total unmodified +25 melee attack bonus. Add in Multiweapon Fighting and the fact that her off hand weapons are not light, that's +21. The Weapon Focus brings it up to +22.

Where do they get +25 from? Is there errata for this or did I have a brain fart and miss something... :confused:

from the SRD Marilith:

Feats: In combination with its natural abilities, a marilith’s Multiweapon Fighting feat allows it to attack with all its arms at no penalty.

Mariliths get a special exemption to the multiweapon fighting rules, so no negatives. +16 BAB, +9 Str, +1 Weapon Focus, -1 Size = +25
 


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