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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GreenTengu" data-source="post: 6954156" data-attributes="member: 6777454">Yes, the bite-- and honestly, the scaley skin, abilities are pretty much useless in any situation where you are going to be armed and equipped ideally to your desire. Basically all classes have better options to choose from presuming you can pick out and have your ideal equipment at any time. But only if you are a Monk are they totally useless.A d6 damage attack that doesn't require a free hand is actually a better melee option than Wizards, Warlocks or some Clerics normally get though. And Wizard and Warlock don't have a automatic way to boost AC nor proficiency with any armors.But generally the usefulness of those abilities is only going to kick in if you have somehow been disarmed and disrobed. Like if you get taken prisoner or you need to sneak in somewhere and obviously can't go in obviously ready for battle.. or you were in attendance at a party or something where it would be inappropriate to be armed and armored.... or you get ambushed while asleep....Its in those situations where you would otherwise be denied your battle equipment, but regardless this character is effectively always equipped with light armor and a short sword.Consider it like this though.... those aren't really meant to be prime combat abilities, it is more equivalent to when other races give you proficiencies your class almost certainly already gets or resistance to a damage type you may almost never encounter. Its not the core benefit of the race, but rather a fringe benefit that mostly only helps out classes that the race might be otherwise terribly suited to.As for whether you have to be unarmed to do an unarmed attack (which the errata in no way indicates is not necessary, it just attempts to convey that 'unarmed attack' does not mean 'punch'), I don't see a reason to argue it. It kind of seems like saying you can deal damage with the sword strapped to your back without first having it in your hand. But, at the same time-- if I am DM and someone wants to choose to do only 1 + Str damage rather than use the d8 damage weapon in their hand, I don't see any real reason to deny it.It is just weird if someone with their hands full decides to do increased damage based on their claws or something.And the damage inflicted by the weapon has always been meant to convey how much you can do with it over a 6-second period. Great Clubs do not "swing" as fast as daggers.</blockquote>

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