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No. "The wielder applies his Strength modifier to damage dealt by thrown weapons." Looking at the weapon chart, nets deal no damage to begin with, so there's nothing to apply your strength mod to.
I'd say, since it's listed as doing no damage, STR mod doesn't apply, nor would Dex-to-damage stuff. It's an example of a thrown weapon, but if the base weapon doesn't damage ...
(And would you like to bear the shame of being slain by a damn net?)
The nets and the lasso are the only weapons that seem to be called out for 0 damage on the table, while the poisoned sand tube is more of an area effect that doesn't itself do normal hit point damage. Looks like the intent was to be entirely 'harmless'. Of course, being stuck in a net next to a raging berserker and her favourite earthbreaker hammer doesn't kill you as such ...
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Does that mean that a Fine sized Slam doesn't add STR to damage either?
Can you give an example of a fine sized creature with a positive STR modifier?
Does that mean that a Fine sized Slam doesn't add STR to damage either?
That chart doesn't indicate that the slam attack of a Fine-sized creature does no damage. It indicates that creatures of Fine size do not have slam attacks.
Nets do no damage. They're not designed to damage. They're designed to entangle, as indicated in their entry in the Core Rulebook.
A flaming net does 1d6 fire damage on a successful hit. It still does no physical damage.
A better question is what about a snag net?
The snag net only damages when you do a trip manoeuvre on an entangled foe and decide you don't want to actually trip the guy. So you do 1 piercing and all the other gladiators laugh at you. Since it's not calling out STR mod here (and it's being done via the trip manoeuvre), I'd say no here too, although I can see this open to interpretation.
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Does that mean that a Fine sized Slam doesn't add STR to damage either?Can you give an example of a fine sized creature with a positive STR modifier?Get the Improved Familiar Silvanshee Agathion. Take a class ability so that you can Reduce Person on outsiders.
3 base strength
-2 Reduce Person
+4 Bull's Strength
+8 Heroic Strength (Su)
If you're gonna use buffs: Any Fine size creature with a strength score (1 or more) + Arcanist [Brown Fur Transmuter] 20 => 15 strength via Form of the Dragon III. Add bull's strength for 19 and a lvl 16+ skald for 25.
Did we ever get an answer as to whether or not nets and lassos were granted a damage die by being a warpriest's sacred weapon? Anything worth doing is worth over doing, right?
I agree, for me it could easily go either way. If a player wanted to do it i'd let it go and accept the consequences, but I wouldn't be surprised if another DM ruled the other way.
I think the main support for "no" would come from whether or not it impacted the damage from a snag net or just hitting people with the net and what type of damage it caused. There's enough other things with no clear answer that it could be easier to just say no.
The only sane way to rule is that "-" means no damage, there is nothing to add to, and there is nothing to replace. I don't know if that's correct, though. A Net Warpriest could be hilarious, and nothing in Sacred Weapons conflicts with the concept.
The CRB still states that all weapons do HP damage, the Net is listed as a weapon, and it doesn't say that it doesn't do damage.
So, a Warpriest could take Quickdraw at first level and throw nets at 10' range for 1d6+Str+Entangle against Touch AC, and at level 3 he takes Net Adept and becomes a Touch AC reach weapon terror.