If I'm not mistaken, there seem to be two conflicting views on how natural attack damage dice progress by size.
The Improved Natural Attack feat follows the progression for manufactured weapons on the weapons page:
A) 1d2, 1d3, 1d4, 1d6, 1d8, 2d6, 3d6, 4d6, 6d6, 8d6, 12d6, etc.
and
B) 1d10, 2d8, 3d8, 4d8, 6d8, 8d8, 12d8, etc.
However, the Strong Jaw spell follows the progression for natural attacks in the Universal Monster Rules:
A) 1, 1d2, 1d3, 1d4, 1d6, 1d8, 2d6, 2d8, 4d6, 4d8, 6d6, 6d8, etc.
Which of these is correct, and how do they interact? Am I going crazy, or is there a rule out there that I'm not aware about?
You should be going crazy. This is one of the more confusing parts of the rules and there are no real clarification on the subject. There's been multiple threads on the subject with A LOT of FAQ hits.
Ah, sorry, I didn't mean to add to the problems. I couldn't find anything a few months ago (perhaps before your most recent posts?), and a quick search yesterday didn't pull anything up when I was looking for natural attacks specifically. I guess we'll just wait for a more definitive response, I guess?
On July 11th, Mark Seifter wrote: Just posting here to tell you that I've been watching this thread and its actually one that has been mentioned among the design team at least once. We have members coming in and out for a while at cons and the like plus some amazingly cool (but hard) stuff on our plate, so don't expect any more FAQs (let alone any one particular FAQ) for a few weeks. However, there's good money on this one being answered relatively soon (the key being relatively) compared to other FAQs. This post is mostly just for reassurance, and I hope it helps.
HSalgo wrote: Ah, sorry, I didn't mean to add to the problems. I couldn't find anything a few months ago (perhaps before your most recent posts?), and a quick search yesterday didn't pull anything up when I was looking for natural attacks specifically. I guess we'll just wait for a more definitive response, I guess? Don't worry about it. It is a good idea to use the search function first, but at least this thread took a buried post to the front line (I'm talking about the post that Nefreet quoted. I hadn't read that)
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