Rougarou Bite Dice

[Frozen Mustelid]

A player wants to make a Rougarou (B6) character in a game I'm in, and the DM asked my opinion on it because I know Pathfinder better. I don't see it as OP, but I do find something confusing - The damage die on the bite seems to morph between a d6 and a d4. In the example statblock presented, the bite attack is a d6, but in the Rougarou Character section, it says that it's a d4.

At first I thought that it was because a bite is the only melee option in the example, but I couldn't find anything in the example statblock or the Light/1H/2H weapon section (CRB141) to indicate that changing the handedness of a weapon would change its damage dice. Is there some rule I'm missing, or is this yet another example of the shoddy quality of B6?

[VoodistMonk]

Everything I find about it online says that the Rougarou bite attack is 1D4. It falls in line with the Toothy/Tusked Half Orc bite attack. It is a secondary attack if the Rougarou is wielding a manufactured weapon.

[Frozen Mustelid]

VoodistMonk wrote:

Everything I find about it online says that the Rougarou bite attack is 1D4. It falls in line with the Toothy/Tusked Half Orc bite attack. It is a secondary attack if the Rougarou is wielding a manufactured weapon.

If there's a precedent for 1d4 and no other information, I guess it's supposed to be 1d4.

The confusion arose because on B6-242, the statblock for the Rougarou Ranger example (ranger 1 and no racial HD) lists the bite attack as a 1d6+STR - At least, in the printing I have (1st). However, in the "Rougarou as Characters" sidebar, it says the bite deals 1d4 damage.

Thanks for your help.

[VoodistMonk]

That's it, exactly, in the Rougarou as Characters sidebar.

The NPC version needs extra damage because they will have fewer feats than a playable character.

A PC gets the 1D4 bite because they have feats and more chances to acquire abilities to make the bite better.

Every other PC I can think of with access to a bite attack is a 1D4 attack. If the monster version does more, good, monsters need all the help they can get to keep even halfway decent parties from just rolling over them.

[Dave Justus]

The rougarou ranger in the bestiary is a mistake.

It is possible that they were looking at the damage a bite does in wolf form (that would be 1d6,) it is possible that they were thinking of taking improved natural attack and then decided on PBS instead and forgot to change the bite die back down. It is possible they just messed up.