Draconic Bloodline tiefling natural attack query

[Charon's Little Helper]

I know that when a creature only has 1 natural attack they get 1.5x strength damage with it. This would apply to a tiefling who'd traded their spell-like ability for a bite attack.

However - what about a tiefling sorceror with the draconic bloodline? They have claws some of the time. Would their bite suddenly do less damage when they manifest the claws for a full attack then when they move & bite? Or do they count differently than if said character had the claws all the time?

What about for attacks of opportunity? Could the character say that their claws were only manifested when swinging with them so that they only have 1 natural attack for their attacks of opportunity?

[anthonydido]

They are a free action to activate but they are tracked in rounds. Therefore, once activated they are there for at least one round.

So, no, you can't activate them during your turn and then get 1.5 strength on your bite for an aoo.

[thorin001]

anthonydido wrote:

They are a free action to activate but they are tracked in rounds. Therefore, once activated they are there for at least one round.

So, no, you can't activate them during your turn and then get 1.5 strength on your bite for an aoo.

But what about making the bite attack and then activating the claws?

Don't say that you cannot take free actions in the middle of an attack, because if that is true then archers cannot make full attacks.

[anthonydido]

Do you mean activating them after the aoo?

If so, I don't see a problem with that.

Remember though if you do that then they will be there until the creature's turn that you activated them on comes up again (1 round later).