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Prehensile Hair (Su) : The witch can instantly cause her hair (or even her eyebrows) to grow up to 10 feet long or to shrink to its normal length, and can manipulate her hair as if it were a limb with a Strength score equal to her Intelligence score. Her hair has reach 10 feet, and she can use it as a secondary natural attack that deals 1d3 points of damage (1d2 for a Small witch). Her hair can manipulate objects (but not weapons) as dexterously as a human hand. The hair cannot be sundered or attacked as a separate creature. Pieces cut from the witch's elongated hair shrink away to nothing. Using her hair does not harm the witch's head or neck, even if she lifts something heavy with it. The witch can manipulate her hair a number of minutes each day equal to her level; these minutes do not need to be consecutive, but must be spent in 1-minute increments. A typical male witch with this hex can also manipulate his beard, moustache, or eyebrows.
Could I wrap my hair around my arms and use it to augment my strength and apply it to weapon attacks and damage? The hair may not be able to manipulate weapons as well as a normal hand but let the hand manipulate, the hair moves with the arm to add power, I don't see why not.
You can't because it specifically calls out what you can do with it and that isn't one of the things. Your GM may feel like letting you do it, and that's fine, but it is not the intended use of the feature.
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Isn't this within what the hair can do? It can push and pull like muscles so wrapping it around an arm or two, acting as muscles, causes it to override or support natural strength. It's like a powered exoskeleton.
http://singularityhub.com/2009/06/11/army-exoskeleton-suit-gives-man-superh uman-strength/
Nothing says it cannot wrap around objects, body parts, or that it cannot apply its strength to an object, like pressing a button.
I first read the thread title as 'Prehensile Body Hair Enhancement.' Which really struck me as funny.
Body hair is funny.
That is all.
Sure, I get your theory, but the rules don't support it. You could probably argue that you could use it to, say, climb and thus make the check with int mod instead of strength mod. However, it doesn't let you attack any differently because the rules don't give any reason to provide the capability to swing a sword harder or throw a weapon with more force.
However, your GM may agree with your theory; it isn't especially game-breaking since it is a limited use ability and by the time you can use it a notable number of times a day you will not be doing much melee attacking.
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The game is written based on the rules telling you what you can do, not them telling you what you can't. If you start interpreting various rules by saying, "It doesn't say you CAN'T do X," you are going to run into big problems.
It also doesn't say you can't use the hair to grant an armor bonus by wrapping it around yourself, or give yourself an jumping bonus by pushing off the ground, etc. The list is endless of the things it doesn't say you can't do.
But, if you petition your GM and he/she allows it, more power to you.