Powerful Charge

[Wasum]

What is powerful charge doing for this monster?

[zerocool270]

Arsinoitherium

Starting Statistics

Size Medium; Speed 30 ft.; AC +4 natural armor; Attack gore (1d8); Ability Scores Str 14, Dex 12, Con 15, Int 2, Wis 13, Cha 3; Special Qualities low-light vision, scent.

7th-Level Advancement

Size Large; AC +2 natural armor; Attack gore (2d8); Ability Scores Str +8, Dex –2, Con +4; Special Qualities powerful charge (gore, 2d8), trample. it gives it a regular attack with a gore of 2d8.

[Wasum]

yea - but what does powerful charge do there?

[Sir Gavvin]

Looks like a typo. Powerful charge on other animal companions increase the die by one level.

[Wasum]

So it should be 4d6?

[Chris P. Bacon]

Creatures with powerful charge deal additional damage (in this case, 2d8) with the listed attack when charging.

So, a 7th level arsinoitherium deals 2d8 on a regular gore attack, but deals 4d8 when charging.

[Wasum]

When making him huge sized and giving him imp. Natural Attack (what brings his gore to 6d6, right?) he would do 12d6 powerful charge?

[Chris P. Bacon]

That's a good question; I assume that the powerful charge damage would also scale with size. But 2d8 steps up to 3d8, so it would be dealing a total of 6d8 (+str and other bonuses, of course) on a charge if it were huge.

[Wasum]

Why does it scale to 3d8?

Applying huge should get it to 4d6 ([url]http://www.d20pfsrd.com/bestiary/rules-for-monsters/universal-monster-rule s#TOC-Table:-Natural-Attacks-by-Size[/url] and then getting improved natural attack makes it 6d6, what did I do wrong?

[Chris P. Bacon]

Oh, I think you may be right. I just took a look at the progression in the improved natural attack feat, but the chart you listed is probably more appropriate.