Does the Improved Unarmed Strike feat apply to natural weapons?


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Core Rulebook, p. 52, Vesk, Natural Weapons wrote:
Vesk are always considered armed. They can deal 1d3 lethal damage with unarmed strikes and the attack doesn’t count as archaic.

I... think like for any race that has a natural weapon, it's simply a deadlier "version" of an unarmed strike... that still counts as an unarmed strike.

Also, the Improved Unarmed Strike... doesn't state natural weapons... because it doesn't talk about it, at all, not even as a special note whether or not a natural weapon is an unarmed strike.

I'm finally asking this because a LOT of natural weapons for playable aliens start at 1d3 points of damage, which would scale comfortably with the Improved Unarmed Strike progression.

So... can a vesk soldier take Improved Unarmed Strike to buff his or her natural weapons?


I believe yes.

There's no distinction between natural weapons and unarmed strikes in pathfinder. Creatures with natural weapons just have better unarmed strikes than those without

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