Animal Aspect: Gorilla and Feral Mutagen (or other natural weapons)


Rules Questions

Dark Archive

I couldn't find a thread that addressed this spell/ability combination.

Animal Aspect:

Spoiler:
Gorilla: Your arms become long, flexible, and strong like those of a great ape. Your unarmed damage die type increases by one step, and you gain a +4 competence bonus on combat maneuver checks when making the grapple or reposition combat maneuver.

"Armed" Unarmed Attacks:

Spoiler:
Sometimes a character's or creature's unarmed attack counts as an armed attack. A monk, a character with the Improved Unarmed Strike feat, a spellcaster delivering a touch attack spell, and a creature with natural physical weapons all count as being armed (see natural attacks).

Note that being armed counts for both offense and defense (the character can make attacks of opportunity).

So natural attacks are considered "armed" for the purpose of not generating AoOs and allowing the ability to perform AoOs. However, with respect to the Animal Aspect spell, do the claw and/or bite attacks gained Feral Mutagen get the benefit of the increase in damage die? It states unarmed damage (vice unarmed "strike"), so it confuses matters.

Grand Lodge

Natural Weapons and Unarmed Strikes are separate things.

Just because something improves one, does not mean they improve the other.

Natural Attacks threaten, and can be used to make AoO.

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