| Joey Cote |
This is more in relation to the polymorph spells then anything else. Aerial form and animal form refers to the form having unarmed attacks but elemental, dino and dragon all refer to the form having natural melee attacks. Is there somewhere that defines a difference between the two?
Unarmed attacks specifically says its any attack you make with your hand or any part of your body. So I would assume that natural attacks are considered unarmed attacks. But, then why do the spells list the attacks differently (other then the obvious idea of a mistake).
Compounding this, if you had a druid with barbarian multiclass. And the druid wildshaped into a dinoform, it does not seem raging adds to the attack and damage rolls, because rage specifically calls for giving the bonus to melee and unarmed attacks (doesn't even effect ranged attacks because an angry barbarian wouldn't throw an axe or hammer harder?). The barbarian dragon transformation feat actually calls the dragon form melee attacks unarmed (as does the animal form).
Natural melee attacks don't have an entry on page 182/183 to describe them unlike unarmed attacks.