Does Racial Heritage provide physical attributes


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Some racial feats presume the possession of certain physical qualities that are not listed as prerequisites, such as Tail Terror utilizing the use of a tail, or Mother's Gift utilizing claw attacks. If a character with the Racial Heritage takes one of these feats, are they considered to possess the requisite physical properties (tails, claws, etc.)?


No, all it does as the text states, is allows you to qualify for traits, feats, how spells and how magic items affect you. Of course you can houserule it for home games, but for PFS it does not do anything more then clearly written in the text.


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Yes and no.

As Alistus said, it doesn't grant you any racial traits or physical appendages not described in the feat.

So Tail Terror doesn't work, as it allow you to attack with a tail, you do not possess. Mother's Gift grant you +1 to attack and damage of claws you already possess, it doesn't grant you claws.

Others however, such as the Catfolk Exemplar feat, grants natural attacks, to the parent race even if they didn't possess them. As such your Racial Heritage human is catfolk enough to grow claws by taking the feat.


I'm personally against the idea, but there's enough back and forth on it that I think it makes a valid FAQ request.

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