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Here is another straightforward, probably silly, question about the spell Bless Weapon. Does it work on natural weapons and unarmed strikes? Spells like Magic Weapon and Align Weapon specifically say that they do not work on natural attacks. So does this omission mean that the spell Bless Weapon will work with them?
Thanks for any help. My searching on the boards hasn't found an answer for me.
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Actually a Natural Weapon isn't a thing in the game. Your thinking of a natural attack. Bless Weapon specifically targets weapons.
So you can cast Bless Weapon on someone's longsword or someone's unarmed strikes (which are called out as being treated as a light weapon) but not on a bear's claws or a horse's hooves.
Actually a Natural Weapon isn't a thing in the game. Your thinking of a natural attack.
By "thing" do you mean object? IE A valid target for a spell that only works on objects?
Natural Attacks: "Attacks made with natural weapons, such as claws and bites, are melee attacks that can be made against any creature within your reach (usually 5 feet).... You can make attacks with natural weapons in combination with attacks made with a melee weapon and unarmed strikes...."
Holding the Charge: "Alternatively, you may make a normal unarmed attack (or an attack with a natural weapon) while holding a charge. In this case, you aren't considered armed and you provoke attacks of opportunity as normal for the attack. If your unarmed attack or natural weapon attack normally doesn't provoke attacks of opportunity, neither does this attack. If the attack hits, you deal normal damage for your unarmed attack or natural weapon and the spell discharges."
Natural weapons certainly exist, however they are almost always listed as a separate category from unarmed strikes and melee weapons (which we can assume generally means manufactured melee weapons).
The target of "bless weapon" is listed as "weapon touched". Sounds like that if you can touch it and it can be used as a weapon, it'll work. Except on your little incorporeal ghost buddy that you can't touch.
Except on your little incorporeal ghost buddy that you can't touch.
What if you're a creature with DR/magic, thus your natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction, which allows you to damage incorporeal creatures? Could you then touch a ghost to bless it? Or would you have to hold the charge then use your natural weapon in a real attack to deliver the spell?
That was just the only example of something that couldn't be touched that can still make an attack that I could come up with on short notice. If you've got some way around not being able to touch the incorporeal weapon (be it natural or otherwise) to bless it, then go for it. There are some other effects like the Athame of Force that you might not be able to touch in order to bless either, but YMMV.