Tail Sweep is Useless

Infiniti2000

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Help me understand if you don't think Tail Sweep is useless as an attack option for dragons.

1. A dragon has to be colossal before it even functions on most PCs. Do you think it would be inappropriate to raise the maximum size of the targets by 1 (or 2) classes?

2. It does less damage than a tail slap, which I guess I can understand, but then you can save vs. the tail sweep (and thus use evasion), which makes the tail sweep all but useless.

3. No attack roll, so any feats or attack bonuses are useless.

4. Would it be a bad idea to use a radius equal to the modified reach values (for tail slap) given in the Draconomicon?
 

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It is pretty lame, for anything other than a maneuver to use on landing. It ought to at least be an automatic trip check.

I think it would be fine to modify the radius, but I don't think a wider radius is gonna help much.
 

You are not alone in questioning the efficiency of the tail sweep.


If
the dragon could abuse the rules and power attack for full with it, that might be a different story.
 

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