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Can creatures without limbs make unarmed strikes?
If I have used Vermin Shape to become a Giant Leech, Giant Rot Grub, Giant Sea Anemone, or other headless, limbless creature, do I lose the ability to make unarmed strikes?
If I create an Animated Cannonball via Craft Construct, add the Brain Bioconstruct Modification to give it the Improved Unarmed Strike feat, can it make no use of it?
You should be able to make unarmed strikes as a giant leech and such. Unarmed strike is a strike that doesn't use a weapon like a sword for example.
You still have a body that you could throw at your opponent in some form or other.
The other part I have no clue about. I haven't read up on constructs.
Doesn't the animated cannonball already get a slam attack?
I know, I'm just wondering why you would still want unarmed strikes. XD
Unarmed strikes can be used more often at higher BAB.
They can also be used with a number of other feats, that cannot be used with natural attacks.
There is a number of reasons why.
Just had a few amusing mental images from this.
"How...on earth...does a cannonball emulate a [i]snake[/] in its fighting style?"
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"Did that cannonball just do piercing damage!?" O_o
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If it doesn't make sense as a GM or PC you probably shouldn't do it.
That said, unarmed strike can be made with any part of the body. And I wouldn't assume a ball of metal is perfectly smooth, especially after taking any damage. So it rolls in a fashion kinda like a charmed snake and bounces at you focusing on its jagged edges.
Simple answer: Yes. To my knowledge, all creatures of all types possess an "Unarmed Strike."
This thread makes me giggle.
This simple answer is yes. Anything living can have an unarmed strike as per raw I believe, even constructs and slugs. A snake could whip you with its tail, jump on you, etc. AS a GM I'd still require you to be able to describe some ways that the creature in question could realistically attack you with just it's natural body.
The more complicated answer is how would you animate a cannonball? It has no arms or legs, no mouth and essentially no way to interact with the outside world. Congrats: it's sentient but unable to manipulate the world around it (and yes, in this case I'd personally rule that it has no unarmed strike. Or a landspeed for that matter.)
Unarmed strikes are different from natural attacks. If something has natural attacks listed, you should use that. The bestiary says that “Some creatures do not have natural attacks. These creatures can make unarmed strikes just like humans do.”
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As the Unarmed Attacks entry does not mention a prerequisite (like for instance the ranged attacks entry does) I say it is save to assume that you can make unarmed attacks if you have a body of any kind.
The more dire question is: can you make unarmed attacks and hit anything with them, because the monk can't and so why should you?