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<blockquote data-quote="Shiroiken" data-source="post: 7576868" data-attributes="member: 6775477"><p>It is clearly a DM's call if they are unarmed attacks or not, since the books are unclear. The only example of a PC having natural weapons without a transmutation (that seem to have listed rules) that I've seen in a non-3PP is the Tabaxi. The Tabaxi cat claws ability clearly calls out that they can be used as an unarmed attack. A DM could believe that this sets precedent, meaning that all natural weapons are unarmed attacks, or believe that this is a case of the specific overruling the general. </p><p></p><p>It should be VERY clear that they are not weapons, since they are a part of the creature. You cannot logically disarm a natural weapon, for instance.</p><p></p><p>My personal belief is that it should be neither. When they changed Unarmed Attacks to no longer be on the weapon table, they indicated that all creatures can make Unarmed Attacks, being redundant for creatures with natural weapons (which is most of them). YMMV</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shiroiken, post: 7576868, member: 6775477"] It is clearly a DM's call if they are unarmed attacks or not, since the books are unclear. The only example of a PC having natural weapons without a transmutation (that seem to have listed rules) that I've seen in a non-3PP is the Tabaxi. The Tabaxi cat claws ability clearly calls out that they can be used as an unarmed attack. A DM could believe that this sets precedent, meaning that all natural weapons are unarmed attacks, or believe that this is a case of the specific overruling the general. It should be VERY clear that they are not weapons, since they are a part of the creature. You cannot logically disarm a natural weapon, for instance. My personal belief is that it should be neither. When they changed Unarmed Attacks to no longer be on the weapon table, they indicated that all creatures can make Unarmed Attacks, being redundant for creatures with natural weapons (which is most of them). YMMV [/QUOTE]
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