Question about secondary melee attacks


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If you have a claw attack and wield a one handed weapon in your main hand, can you use your weapon normally with the addition of a secondary attack, or do you follow the rules for two weapon fighting?


You use your weapon normally and take your claw attack as a Primary Attack (unless otherwise specified) which has no penalty at all.


DeathMetal4tw wrote:
If you have a claw attack and wield a one handed weapon in your main hand, can you use your weapon normally with the addition of a secondary attack, or do you follow the rules for two weapon fighting?

Natural Attacks: "You can make attacks with natural weapons in combination with attacks made with a melee weapon and unarmed strikes, so long as a different limb is used for each attack. For example, you cannot make a claw attack and also use that hand to make attacks with a longsword. When you make additional attacks in this way, all of your natural attacks are treated as secondary natural attacks, using your base attack bonus minus 5 and adding only 1/2 of your Strength modifier on damage rolls."

You do not suffer Two-Weapon Fighting penalties unless you are using the Two-Weapon Fighting style to gain an extra attack with a manufactured weapon.

Kyrt is incorrect, when combining manufactured weapons and natural attacks, the natural attacks all become Secondary.

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So, if your BAB is +6 and you have claws and a longsword, your options are:

Longsword +6 (Full Str)
Longsword +1 (Full Str)
Claw +1 (1/2 Str)

or

2 Claws at +6 each (both Full Str)


Or you could be cheesy and if it doesn't say which limbs the claws grow on, claim they are on your legs and get all 3!

However your gm will hate you.

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