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