When elephants attack!


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I can't seem to find a place that tells me the elephant's slam attack is its trunk or the elephant stomping.

Any clue? It sort of matters for a arm wereelephant in hybrid form.


I am fairly certain that slam is with arm/long, arm-like appendages. Trample or some type of hoof is the typical name for stomping.

Another indicator that this is the trunk is the fact that it is a primary natural attack (it has full strength damage and to hit). Other than claws, attacks with the limbs on quadrupeds tend to be secondary.

If you are making a wereelephant, I'd suggest choosing a form without tusks for balance. Three primary natural attacks uninvolved with your limbs is a bit too powerful. For how it works as an arm, I'd roughly model it after a tiefling's prehensile tail. Basically, retrival of stored items as a swift action, and maybe a feat to do the same from 5 feet away.


Nice idea about the trunk as a prehensible tail.

As for the gore attacks, elephants only get one. One gore, one slam.


Ah, forgot that. Still, it does seem a bit much for attacks unassociated with limbs. Technically, if you were going to cheese it, a wereelephant could qualify for aspect of the beast and get two claw attacks, which brings them up to 4 primary attacks

...yes, elephants lack claws. You never see anyone complaining about werewolves though. Wolves aren't exactly sporting that attack either.

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lemeres wrote:
...yes, elephants lack claws. You never see anyone complaining about werewolves though. Wolves aren't exactly sporting that attack either.

I think that werewolves get a pass because of things like this.


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There's never any were-giraffes. :(

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They don't work in tombs, dungeons, or forest of any density, or on boats in high wind.
They have a nasty kick that can kill a lion with one shot.
They use their heads and necks against each other and it sounds like death and destruction but that doesn't seem to happen.
They have a dense forest smaller relative: Okapi but it's fighting style is unknown, if there is one.

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It does my heart good to hear the phrase "were-elephant." As a fan of some of the... less epic... monsters of old-school D&D, I can't believe Gary never got around to inventing pachydermanthropy.

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There was a fantasy story about a guy who was cursed at some party he doesn't remember well (too drunk) to turn into a medium grey elephant on national holidays. At the end of the story, it saved his sweetheart's life and went away (like Ground Hog Day)


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Cast awaken on the elephant and ask the wizard to cast fly and enlarge on it and you have a dm that won't ever put an elephant in his campaign :-p

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