There are a large number of ways a character might gain a bite attack (feats,spells, class features etc) and I was wondering if there were any ill effects to using them?
It seems to me I would not want to put the vast majority of monsters in my mouth, just for sanitary reasons, but in a fantastical world is there any monsters that can cause ill effects if you accidently got their blood or body parts exposed to your mucus membranes or accidentally swallowed some of their flesh?
i don't know about contact poisons or diseases, but there's at least one monster i've found in the bestiary that does contact damage with hit with natural attacks
An enraged remorhaz generates heat so intense that anything touching its body takes 8d6 points of fire damage. Creatures striking a remorhaz with natural attacks or unarmed strikes are subject to this damage, but creatures striking with melee weapons are not. The heat can melt or burn weapons; any weapon that strikes a remorhaz is allowed a DC 19 Fortitude save to avoid taking damage. The save DC is Constitution-based.
Not as a general case by the rules, no.
You don't get weird diseases from having blood splattered over you too.
Some creatures have abilities that make them taste bad.
Not as a general case by the rules, no.
You don't get weird diseases from having blood splattered over you too.
Some creatures have abilities that make them taste bad.
I figured it was something like this or "just houserules it".
Personally I think a strong case can be made for the case, if the monster has the disease and you bite it you'd need to make the saves.
Was just wondering what the general idea was.
There are some specific monsters that punish for natural attacks and unarmed strikes though.
Burning skeletons punish natural attacks (fire damage), as do acid skeletons (acid damage).
While not specifically targeting natural attacks or bites in particular, festrogs are covered in pustules that when struck with piercing or slashing damage spray an attacker with pus-like fluids carrying the contact disease Necrotic Boils.
The blood knight template (from Green Ronin Advanced Bestiary for 3.5e, used in Pathfinder rules by Paizo in AP#47) has poisonous blood that poisons anyone that bites it, and it also has a blood spray attack that poisons anyone coated in its blood.
It's fairly safe to say that anything covered with contact poison or ingested poison is also poisonous to anyone biting it, and some diseases definitely make sense to transmit by biting a carrier, such as contracting ghoul fever by biting a ghoul.
Note that I'm sure there are other examples that aren't undead, but undead are just the ones I know.
