Wereboars - why a bite?


Rules Questions


The Bestiary page 196 says, for lycanthropes
"Melee: A lycanthrope gains natural attacks in animal and hybrid forms according to the base animal."

The stats for a wereboar in Bestiary 2 has the wereboar with a bite attack as well as a gore attack. Boars and dire boars don't have bite attacks. So why would a wereboar get one? The quoted line doesn't mention it either. It's late where I am so pardon me if I missed something!


Most likely because lycanthropy is spread through bites.


Natural lycanthropes can breed more though...


best I can see is

Quote:

Curse of Lycanthropy (Su) A natural lycanthrope's bite attack in animal or hybrid form infects a humanoid target with lycanthropy (Fortitude DC 15 negates). If the victim's size is not within one size category of the lycanthrope, this ability has no effect.


Ignoring of course the fact that a boar's gore attack is made with its teeth giving ample opportunity for pathogen containing saliva or what have you to transfer to the wound.

Grand Lodge

Well, I have seen Pigs bite people. Nasty biters they are.


I get it now! The example base creature is a (raging) barbarian with the animal fury rage power. This gives it a bite. That must be it!


lol yea...he has bite already...he gains gore...but i love your enthusiasm HAHA!

Sczarni

blackbloodtroll wrote:
Well, I have seen Pigs bite people. Nasty biters they are.

no doubt about that. I always wondered why my Grandpa let me go pet the bulls but wouldn't let me near the pig sty. Given the opportunity I pig will eat you without so much as a second thought.


That might have to do with the fact that Kine are herbivores, where as Swine are dedicated omnivores... if you get injured, knocked out, or otherwise incapacitated in a pig stye there are decent to good odds (depending on the type of pig you are raising) that the pigs will eat your ass.


A better question (IMO) is "Why do boars have a gore attack in the first place, when every other tooth-based attack is called a bite?", as alluded to by cwslyclgh.


not quite true... elephants also have a 'gore' attack that is made with (albeit longer and even more specialized) teeth.

Many (but not all) boars of various kinds tend to attack with a ripping or slashing motion with their specialized teeth (tusks), not opening their mouth widely and bringing their other non-specialized teeth into play when attacking (you are still likely to get some slobber on you though, and eating of course is a different matter).


cwslyclgh wrote:
That might have to do with the fact that Kine are herbivores, where as Swine are dedicated omnivores... if you get injured, knocked out, or otherwise incapacitated in a pig stye there are decent to good odds (depending on the type of pig you are raising) that the pigs will eat your ass.

Why would they only eat my ass? Is my ass like some kind of swine specialty?


Yes, yes it is.... just yours though... Krodjin would have been as safe as safe can be... his grandfather was apparently under the mistaken impression that he had your ass.

Grand Lodge

Yes.
This is why I can eat bacon and say "look whose eating who!"


Were-bacon. Watch out BBT!!!

Grand Lodge

Hmm. Well, human flesh is known as long pork.

It is noted as tasting like a sweeter, stringier pork.

This must mean that the wereboar is the source of tastiest bacon imaginable.


Interestingly, they will eat everything, even bone. Its why pigs are good for disposing of bodies.


blackbloodtroll wrote:

Hmm. Well, human flesh is known as long pork.

It is noted as tasting like a sweeter, stringier pork.

This must mean that the wereboar is the source of tastiest bacon imaginable.

Mmmmmmm .... bacon ....

Grand Lodge

1 person marked this as a favorite.
johnlocke90 wrote:
Interestingly, they will eat everything, even bone. Its why pigs are good for disposing of bodies.

I have seen Snatch too.


Ever see a pig bite someone? Those guys are VICIOUS. I'm not at all sorry that we eat them. It's not too long ago that they used to eat US.

Grand Lodge

Well, I've raised rabbits.

They are cute, soft, and oh so delicious.

Community / Forums / Pathfinder / Pathfinder First Edition / Rules Questions / Wereboars - why a bite? All Messageboards

Want to post a reply? Sign in.