Advice for reading the beastiary


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I'm a relatively new game master(pardon me if that term is incorrect), and I'm having a small issue reading some parts of the bestiary. For the most part, I can figure things out, but I need help with this one: http://paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/monsters/angel.html

Specifically, with the part with his attack bonus for his +2 disrupting warhammer. Normally, there is one number there and I can work with that, but this guy have 3. Can someone clue me in here?

Thanks.


It means that when he spends a full-round action attacking with the warhammer, he gets to make 3 attacks, one attack with each listed bonus.

If he just uses a standard action to attack, he makes one attack with the highest bonus.

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He has three attack bonuses because of his Base Attack Bonus. When a character or creature's base attack bonus gets high enough (over 5) they can make multiple attacks as part of a full round action. If the Astral Deva either doesn't move, or only takes a five foot step, he can attack three times in one round. His attacks lowering for each swing.

I hope this helps and feel free to ask if this wasn't clear enough.


Jericho Graves wrote:

He has three attack bonuses because of his Base Attack Bonus. When a character or creature's base attack bonus gets high enough (over 5) they can make multiple attacks as part of a full round action. If the Astral Deva either doesn't move, or only takes a five foot step, he can attack three times in one round. His attacks lowering for each swing.

I hope this helps and feel free to ask if this wasn't clear enough.

That's extremely helpful! Thanks!

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