Question about animal companions for druids


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From Table: Animal Companion Base Statistics it appears that animal companions get multiattack at 9th level. What does this mean for a bird with a bite and two talon attacks? It looks like these are all primary attacks (same BAB) so the bird would get one additional attack at BAB -5 at 9th level. Or should it be that for levels 1 - 8 the bird should be attacking bite at BAB and talons BAB -5 so that multiattack would reduce the deficit for the secondary attacks to BAB -2? Thanks!


relevant clarifying post from SKR.

All of your primary attacks are at full BaB as bite and talon are primary attacks. So at 9th level you would gain an extra attack at -5 to hit with a bite or talon.


Thank you for the quick response!


Where is the '"gain an iterative attack for one of those weapons" option' from? It's not in the Multiattack feat description on o the PRD.

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Bacondale wrote:
Where is the '"gain an iterative attack for one of those weapons" option' from? It's not in the Multiattack feat description on o the PRD.

It's a specific exception to multiattack allowed by animal companions.


According to the CRB, the animal companion only gets that if it has less than three natural attacks. JJ said it should be errata-ed six years ago in this topic.


dragonhunterq wrote:

relevant clarifying post from SKR.

All of your primary attacks are at full BaB as bite and talon are primary attacks. So at 9th level you would gain an extra attack at -5 to hit with a bite or talon.

TL;DR: most companions should gain an iterative, because that's most fair. But I'm not putting it into the errata and I don't understand why that's a problem.

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