
MajorSarigar |
The Fury aspect barbarian receives Raging Resistance against "physical weapon damage, but not physical damage from other sources (such as unarmed attacks)". My question is, in Pathfinder 2E, do monster attacks with their claws/jaws/tentacles/spikes/horns etc. count as weapons, or as unarmed attacks?

The Gleeful Grognard |

They don't have the unarmed trait but they are indeed unarmed attacks, both by the description of the unarmed trait in the CRB as well as the frequent mentions in the first chapter of the Bestiary.
Further supporting this look at the ghost entry on page 166
"all ghosts have a ghostly hand unarmed strike"
then look at the ghostly hand attacks, no unarmed trait.
(the unarmed trait is on page 283 of the CRB)

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Monsters and NPCs aren't written like players.
It is usually pretty obvious if an attack is a weapon or unarmed:
Example of two attacks:
Melee [one-action] fist +14 (agile, finesse, good, magical), Damage
3d6+1 bludgeoning plus 1d6 good
Obviously an unarmed attack above.
Melee [one-action] longsword +14 (versatile P), Damage 1d8+6 slashing
This is obviously a weapon attack.

MajorSarigar |
So a Fury barbarian's Raging Resistance only applies against manufactured weapons, not against any sort of natural weapons? That is weird, and weirdly written. Given how much emphasis they put on the difference between unarmed attacks and weapon attacks, and that historically, monster natural attacks have been considered to be armed with a weapon, it's strange that they left this unclear.

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Not really that unclear, they literally went out of their ways to say that Unarmed attacks are not weapons in 2e.
Unarmed: An unarmed attack uses your body rather
than a manufactured weapon. An unarmed attack isn’t a
weapon, though it’s categorized with weapons for weapon
groups, and it might have weapon traits. Since it’s part of
your body, an unarmed attack can’t be Disarmed. It also
doesn’t take up a hand, though a fist or other grasping
appendage follows the same rules as a free‑hand weapon.
It is repeated so much all over the corebook, they really want to make sure that there is no confusion.
This is what the bestiary says about melee attacks from the monsters:
Melee [one-action] (traits; some weapon traits, such as deadly, include
their calculations for convenience) The name of the weapon
or unarmed attack the creature uses for a melee Strike,
followed by the attack modifier and traits in parentheses