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...You also gain a bite attack that deals an amount of piercing damage appropriate for your size (1d8 for a Large creature, 1d6 for Medium, 1d4 for Small) as a secondary natural attack. You begin each combat with the sickened condition until you deal damage with your bite attack.
What I would like to know is what the 'Damage' part is supposed to mean. Is it literally any damage (like damaging objects), or does it have to be against a creature?
Can you self-damage to satisfy this condition (like biting into your own arm)?
Does sundering an object using your bite attack count for this damage?
Could you get down and start eating dirt in order to remove the sickened condition (damaging the ground)?
By the RAW any damage would allow you to get over the condition. As a GM I'd require you to damage a creature, but I'd allow you to bite your own arm to get over it.
Bring a bag of rats or similar small critters and bite that creature as you enter combat.
Then you can argue with a DM if the critters have to be dead or alive for it to count as "damage" or as a part of the fluff of the curse that you need to bring a "snack" to a fight.
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My plan was to eat boots and piles of paper and maybe quarterstaves since their cost is near inconsequential. I want to play a goatwoman of death.
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My plan was to eat boots and piles of paper and maybe quarterstaves since their cost is near inconsequential. I want to play a goatwoman of death.
Your curse is hunger, not teething. :)
To be fair, you can do that with any character. Just run into battle while eating a boot the late anime schoolgirl fashion.
My plan was to eat boots and piles of paper and maybe quarterstaves since their cost is near inconsequential. I want to play a goatwoman of death.Your curse is hunger, not teething. :)
Hungry for soil, boot leather and flesh. Teething is just a cute side effect to the horrific reality of this goat of death.
To be fair, you can do that with any character. Just run into battle while eating a boot the late anime schoolgirl fashion.
But if I can't spend the first 6 seconds of every combat screaming and taking a chunk out of stone buildings with my bare teeth, how can I take a chunk out of my enemies? I want to holler loudly, mouth still full of splinters/gravel/dirt/my own flesh and then latch onto the biggest bad I meet with the reliability of not having a stomach ache when I do.
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You can read it here, just scroll down a bit
...You also gain a bite attack that deals an amount of piercing damage appropriate for your size (1d8 for a Large creature, 1d6 for Medium, 1d4 for Small) as a secondary natural attack. You begin each combat with the sickened condition until you deal damage with your bite attack.What I would like to know is what the 'Damage' part is supposed to mean. Is it literally any damage (like damaging objects), or does it have to be against a creature?
Can you self-damage to satisfy this condition (like biting into your own arm)?
Does sundering an object using your bite attack count for this damage?
Could you get down and start eating dirt in order to remove the sickened condition (damaging the ground)?
Up to the GM. I think it really depends how dark the GM is willing to allow the game to be. In a light hearted game, you could probably bite anything, provided it was funny. For a more Dark setting, you'd probably have to bite a chunk of living flesh off a creature and you may even require a fortitude save for eating more unusual creatures. For general PFS play, I'd suggest that sunder should qualify, as would any damage you deal with your bite attack to others. Attacking yourself is probably not legal in RAW, but the GM may allow it anyway.
I would note that hardness and DR probably counts against this ability. If you don't deal damage, you won't benefit.
Main thing is that you must waste a standard action on your first turn to get ride of it, and you'll always start a surprise round being both flat footed and sickened.