Tusked, Tusk Blades, Special Materials, and so on...


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Both of these items are legal as of Additional Resources. (Heck, the latter is specifically called out as such.)

Tusked:
Source: Orcs of Golarion pg. 23
Category: Trait (Race)
Requirement(s): Half-Orc, Orc
Huge, sharp tusks bulge from your mouth, and you receive a bite attack (1d4 damage for Medium characters). If used as part of a full attack action, the bite attack is made at your full base attack bonus –5.

Tusk Blades:
Source: Belkzen, Hold of the Orc Hordes pg. 39
Price: 50 gp
Weight: 10 lbs.
Category: Animal Gear
Description: These metal caps must be specially fitted to a creature’s horns or tusks; a blade reminiscent of a sword or axe head projects from each cap. If the creature makes a gore attack (including as part of a powerful charge), the attack deals both piercing and slashing damage, and has a critical threat range of 19–20 (this range can be increased by other effects). Tusk blades can be enhanced as melee weapons; the enhancement is applied to the creature’s gore attack.

Okay, some questions. I've read the other items on the board here, even the one about the use of Tusk Blades in PFS, but I'm hoping for a more official answer here.

1) When you apply tusk blades to someone with the tusked race (and, therefore, eligible for adopted) trait, does it shift to the bite attack instead of the gore attack? [I'm guessing no, but it just seems odd phrasing. I'm just not sure which is a funnier image: biting ones way through stone walls... or headbutting through them.]

2) Can you make masterwork tusk blades? Can you make them out of special materials (like, say, adamantine)? If so, what would the prices be (in general, but I'm looking specifically for a PFS ruling)? [My guess: Despite the wording of the piece of equipment, as a weapon, so 350 for Masterwork, 3050 for adamantine, etc.]

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1) No. I mean, you COULD put them on but the only attack they mechanically interact with is the gore.

2) Seems legit. You have the pricing right, up to large.

Good luck on the official ruling. But if you don't get it, perhaps a bunch of people weighing in can let you see how tepid the waters are

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The blades do nothing for bite attacks, they only affect gore. I would be dubious that any humanoid could use them full stop given they are specifically called out as animal gear.


andreww wrote:
The blades do nothing for bite attacks, they only affect gore. I would be dubious that any humanoid could use them full stop given they are specifically called out as animal gear.

Yeah, I remembered that mentioned after I'd posted (as always seems to be the way). Are there rules specific to that? Saying that animal gear can't be used by non-animals? Because the character in question has both a bite (from Tusked) and a gore (from his race) consistently. (Or, at least, he can - there's no limitation on how long he can manifest the gore.)

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Shifters can easily gain a gore attack, now, as well, with the alternative natural attack rules for Shifters in Wilderness Origins.


GreatGraySkwid wrote:
Shifters can easily gain a gore attack, now, as well, with the alternative natural attack rules for Shifters in Wilderness Origins.

Getting a gore attack isn't what I'm worried about -- the race already gets them. I was more trying to get official wording on the tusk blades.

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