Any gods that have natural weapon as the deitys favorite?


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Title says it all really. I'm looking for a god that has natural weapon as the deitys favourite weapon. Are there any out there?

Dark Archive

Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Charter Superscriber

The only one I see at first glance in Inner Sea Gods' Appendix is Apsu, the patron of metallic dragons. He has bite and quarterstaff as his favored weapons.

Also Dahak, the patron of the chromatic dragons. Bite and whip for him.

Contributor

While thematically awesome, having a natural attack as a favored weapon is rather pointless because a cleric / inquisitor / warpriest gains free proficiency with their deity's favored weapon. So if a natural attack is your favored weapon, you gain free proficiency with that natural attack ... except it actually does nothing. Even if you're proficient with, say, a bite attack, you can't attack with a natural attack that you physically don't possess, just as you can't attack with a longsword you aren't wielding even if its your deity's favored weapon.

Likewise, any creature that gains a natural attack is automatically proficient with it as per the natural attack rules in the Bestiaries. This is why the Draconic Bloodline's 1st-level power doesn't need to call out that the sorcerer is proficient with his new claw attacks. So ultimately, you get nothing.

Now, granted, there are some feats that require you to have Weapon Focus with your deity's favored weapon and with the new warpriest class, a warpriest of Aspu can use his bite attack (if he possesses one) as his sacred weapon. But in most cases, you don't see it often because it sort of gips clerics out of a class feature. (See Aspu and Dahak above, who both offer two favored weapons for this very reason.)

Scarab Sages

It's good for Warpriests due to the free sacred weapon upgrade without ending weapon focus, but Warpriests can make a natural weapon sacred by taking focus in it anyway.


H,mmm it's interesting about the warpriest.

So you could take a white haired witchs hair attack and make it a sacred weapon with all that means?

Maybe a viable white haired witch/warpriest build?


It's pretty neat for Crusader's Flurry.

Scarab Sages

Pupsocket wrote:
It's pretty neat for Crusader's Flurry.

Eh, you'd still need Feral Combat Training to get unarmed strike damage with the bite or to use Style Feats/Stunning Fist/other "Unarmed" feats.

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