How would you go about it? I see Magic Items that add claws/stings/bites/hooves/gore. Ragebred Skinwalker looks best to start with as far as I can tell, with hoof/hoof/gore. How do I go about maximizing natural attacks, and how should they best be utilized? Smite or sneak attacks looked the most tempting, but any opinions are appreciated.
A Vivisectionist Alchemist gives sneak attack and claw/claw/bite with the right discovery, which brings your skinwalker up to six. Add in Beastmorph and you're pouncing with all of that.
Bloodrager -> Dragon disciple perhaps? That will give you a couple claws and a bite as well as great hit points and BAB plus some spellcasting.
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The magic whip: Fleshwarped Scorpion's Tail
There's also the synthesist route.
There's also the synthesist route.
Summoner is banned at the table. That's about all that is, though.
Lots of great ideas, thanks! Keep them coming.
A Vivisectionist Alchemist gives sneak attack and claw/claw/bite with the right discovery, which brings your skinwalker up to six. Add in Beastmorph and you're pouncing with all of that."The right Discovery" would be Feral Mutagen, iIrc.
Some other ways to get Natural Attacks:
Be a Druid and Wildshape into a Giant Octopus: 1 Bite and 8 Tentacles with Grab and Constrict.
Slightly fewer but still many Natural Attacks would be to wildshape into a feline: 1 Bite and 2 Claws + a 2 Claw Rake.
Or a Megaraptor Dinosaur with 1 Bite, 2 Claws, and 2 Talons.
Tengu can start with 2 Claws and a Bite.
1 Level in White Haired Witch gives you a Hair Attack.
There are Witch Hexes: Prehensile Hair and Nails.
I guess you could be a White Haired Witch and multiclass with Hexcrafter Magus and get Prehensile Hair, Nails, and White Hair.
Beast Bonded Witches can turn into larger versions of their Familiars and get Natural Attacks like much like Druids can.
Helm of the Mammoth Lord gives you a Gore Attack.
Ring of Ratfangs gives you a Bite Attack.
The Tentacle Cloak gives you 2 Tentacles.
Kraken Call Druids get many Tentacle Attacks or just 1 big one.
There is a magic whip that you can graft onto yourself and give yourself a Tail Attack.
You can cast Monstrous Physique I and turn into a 4-Armed Sahaugin and get 4 Claws and a Bite attack.
The Alchemal Tentacle requires you use your regular attacks with it, but if you do, it won't impose penalties on your other natural attacks, since it is still a natural attack itself.
How do you keep the Octopus alive and mobile?
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I think there's a natural attack ranger that can add a few via feats.
I'm always surprised there was no feat for natural attacks akin to Improved Two Weapon fighting granting an extra attack or offhand to make up for the lost iteratives. That seems to be the big weakness of natural attack classes after mid-levels.
What about a Tengu Kraken Caller with claws via alt racial trait?
Giant Octopi do have a land speed, 20'. And as to "alive," I have heard compelling arguments that Wildshaping into an Aquatic creature does not take away your ability to breathe air, but I'm worried about that myself. Take a long look at the Polymorph rules, then talk about them with your GM.Be a Druid and Wildshape into a Giant Octopus: 1 Bite and 8 Tentacles with Grab and Constrict.How do you keep the Octopus alive and mobile?
Polymorph spells don't turn you into another creature - they give you "the form of" another creature with very specific rules as to what abilities you lose and gain. None of those very specific rules say you lose the ability to breathe air.
The relevant rule covering what you lose:
While under the effects of a polymorph spell, you lose all extraordinary and supernatural abilities that depend on your original form (such as keen senses, scent, and darkvision), as well as any natural attacks and movement types possessed by your original form. You also lose any class features that depend upon form, but those that allow you to add features (such as sorcerers that can grow claws) still function.
Personally, I would make a Tengu Kraken Caller. I would take the alternative racial trait that gives you two claw attacks instead of sword trained. Now then, unless you really want an animal companion, I would take a domain instead. The goal for me would be to use self buffing in order to try to balance quantity and quality. My first thought for your domain is Wolf, but I have not given that a lot of thought yet. I will likely be giving this more thought. Unless I hear otherwise, I will be building this with the assumption that it is for PFS.
Ah, here is one of those "compelling arguments" I was referring to: thank you, Mean Mutton. I don't exactly disagree with you, but I think you should use the landlocked octopus form with caution. I can easily see a GM giving you problems with it.Giant Octopi do have a land speed, 20'. And as to "alive," I have heard compelling arguments that Wildshaping into an Aquatic creature does not take away your ability to breathe air, but I'm worried about that myself. Take a long look at the Polymorph rules, then talk about them with your GM.Be a Druid and Wildshape into a Giant Octopus: 1 Bite and 8 Tentacles with Grab and Constrict.How do you keep the Octopus alive and mobile?Polymorph spells don't turn you into another creature - they give you "the form of" another creature with very specific rules as to what abilities you lose and gain. None of those very specific rules say you lose the ability to breathe air.
The relevant rule covering what you lose:
While under the effects of a polymorph spell, you lose all extraordinary and supernatural abilities that depend on your original form (such as keen senses, scent, and darkvision), as well as any natural attacks and movement types possessed by your original form. You also lose any class features that depend upon form, but those that allow you to add features (such as sorcerers that can grow claws) still function.
Totally agree. This should go into a "shenanigans list" that you give to your GM in advance of using it.
So, after doing a little research it seems that the Growth Subdoamin would be the best if all you wanted was raw power, while the Wolf Domain has more utility and shenanigans.
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Another idea is to make a Warpriest of Apsu. Once again I am talking about a Tengu with claws. If you choose your claws as your free Weapon Focus, you will then have three natural attacks that keep going up in damage.
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The Clawed Tengu Warpriest is a very solid choice: well-rounded and powerful. Avoid dipping, but maybe take that level in White Haired Witch.
Tengu don't have hair, though. GMs may well rule that the WHW archetype simply doesn't do anything for a tengu (in the same sense that although a Fighter can take Quicken Spell, the feat simply does nothing for him).
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Technically, yes, and admittedly, I am all about the technically. But isn't that a pretty crappy thing for a GM to do: let you take a level in White Haired Witch then not let you use like the only class ability that the class offers? What that GM should do is not let you take that level in the first place: make you take some other Archetype.
To me, this is not about the technicality but about the flavor; if you don't have hair, it strikes me as a fair (although by no means universal) ruling that you can't use hair-based abilities.
I fully agree that the GM should warn you in advance. Although you probably shouldn't try this in PFS.
I do not know where, but I think it has been established that in PFS Tengu can not use super hair. Although, oddly, Nagaji can.