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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Al'Kelhar" data-source="post: 1123696" data-attributes="member: 7884">Here's my take.Creatures with natural attacks do not get iterative attacks.  This means each natural weapon does not get multiple attacks, notwithstanding what the creature's BAB is.  However, the "balance" for this is that many animals get multiple natural attacks, and do not suffer the savage two weapon fighting penalties of humanoids using manufactured weapons (all primary attacks - and there can be more than one - use the creature's BAB, all secondary attacks use the creatures BAB -5 [unless the creature has multiattack, in which case all secondary attacks use the creatures's BAB -2]).A druid in wildshape gains all natural attack forms of the adopted animal, plant or elemental.  He uses his normal BAB to determine the attack bonus of one natural weapon.  This single natural weapon gains has a damage multiplier of 1, or 1.5 if it is the creature's only natural weapon.  All other natural weapons are secondary attack forms.  Not only does this penalise the druid's damage with those attacks (0.5 Str bonus only), but if the druid wants to use them, he is treated as attacking with two (or more) weapons, including suffering a -4 attack roll penalty with the primary natural weapon and a -8 attack roll penalty with all secondary natural weapons.Druids in wildshape do not gain any bonuses to multiple attack sequences; they are treated as humanoids with "handedness", not animals, plants or elementals.  A druid in wildshape suffers penalties for attacking with multiple weapons - as interpreted from the description of the alter self spell.Thus, a 5th level druid (BAB +3) wildshaping into a wolf (Str 13, one bite) has a single bite attack at +4 (+3 BAB, +1 Str), and inflicts 1d6+1 points of damage.  The same 5th level druid wildshaping into a black bear (Str 19, 2 claws, 1 bite) attacking as a standard action has one claw attack at +7 (+3 BAB, +4 Str), and inflicts 1d4+4 points of damage.  However, if that druid wants to use a full attack action as a black bear, he has one claw attack at +3 (+3 BAB, +4 Str, -4 two weapon fighting penalty) for 1d4+4 points of damage, one claw attack at -1 (+3 BAB, +4 Str, -8 two weapon fighting penalty) for 1d4+2 points of damage, and one bite attack at -1 (+3 BAB, +4 Str, -8 two weapon fighting penalty) for 1d6+2 points of damage.Cheers, Al'Kelhar</blockquote>

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