Anaconda's Coils and Final Embrace


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Would wearing Anaconda's Coils give you the constrict ability and qualify you for the Final Embrace feat (assuming 13 str, 3 int, and bab +3)?

Also, semi related question, can you apply your 1.5 x str modifier for your constrict damage assuming you have two free hands?

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Belt, Anaconda’s Coils
Aura moderate transmutation; CL 8th
Slot belt; Price 18,500 gp; Weight 1 lb.

DESCRIPTION

This snakeskin belt’s buckle is shaped like a serpent’s head.

The wearer gains a +2 enhancement bonus to Strength and a +2 competence bonus on grapple combat maneuver checks. Treat the enhancement bonus to Strength as temporary ability bonus for the first 24 hours the belt is worn. In addition, the belt grants the wearer the constrict ability for 1d6 points of damage plus the wearer’s Strength modifier.

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Final Embrace (Combat)
Your coils are particularly deadly, allowing you to constrict opponents of your size or smaller.

Prerequisite: Str 13, Int 3; naga, serpentfolk, or creature that has the constrict special attack; base attack bonus +3.

Benefit: You gain the constrict and grab special attacks. Your constrict attack deals damage equal to your unarmed strike or primary natural weapon melee attack. Further, you can grab and constrict opponents up to your size.

Normal: You can grab and constrict creatures one size smaller than you.


I would say yes. The real question is whether or not you lose the feat when you take off the belt. The reason I say this is Final Embrace actually grants you constrict. So you qualify for it by virtue of having it.

Dark Archive

The more I look through the rules the more I think this would work. And if the character takes off the belt, the feat is not lost:

edit: what i mean is the character would just have to put the belt back on again, but would probably lose access to the benefits of the feat while it was off. I would prefer that the character didn't, obviously, but I wouldn't complain if the judged ruled that the character did lose the benefit.

From the d20pfsrd

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A character can't use a feat if he loses a prerequisite, but he does not lose the feat itself. If, at a later time, he regains the lost prerequisite, he immediately regains full use of the feat that prerequisite enables.


Lost was a bad choice I should have turned off. I just find it funny that this is the only feat written that would allow you to qualify for having once taken if your normal method of qualifying was lost.

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I know right. It is amusing.


For the damage question, that would be a no to the 1.5 modifier. Your number of hands free don't work into the constrict 'equation' RAW.


Would having Anacondas Coils and the Final Embrace Feat for a Human be legal for PFS?

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