Bite & gore?


Pathfinder First Edition General Discussion


How can you both Bite and gore in a round?

Both attacks come off your head?
Both are Primary attacks if your have both should one be secondary?


Yes you can use both in the same round, and both are primary. They both come off of your head yes, but they're still considered to come off of different limbs so your still free to attack with both in the same round. If your only using natural attacks a primary should never become a secondary.


Bite, let go (or tear off hunk of flesh), then headbutt/gore.


How come you can hit someone with a sword four times in a round?


Actually, depending on the horn design, how can you avoid using a gore attack?

Imagine elephant tusks, a rhino horn, or just the typical fore head horns that just happen to curve downward or forward (more typical with creatures with snouts like some demonic hound type...thing). How could you sink your teeth into a creature's torso without accidentally stabbing them with a stray horn?

But if that doesn't suit you: do the horns first with your head down, raise your head up during the gore attack,and then thrust your face forward for a bite.

The Exchange

I can see how it seems counter-intuitive because all the attacks in a full attack are made, in game terms, during a single moment in the round. It will probably be more palatable once you remember that this is supposed to be reflecting six full seconds' worth of combat. Managing first one and then the other is a little more reasonable if you think of the two events happening over that length of time, right?

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