Kobold small and deadly feat

[Derek Dalton]

The feat is pretty cool all things considered. But here's my question. I've got a melee build kobold with a positive str of 14. With this feat would I add 4 points to my str for damage purposes? In this case instead of +2 damage would I know do +4 instead since my strength in this case would be 18?

[Ryze Kuja]

Small But Deadly wrote:

Small But Deadly

You have learned to make the most of certain weapons, despite your physical weakness.

Prerequisite(s): Weapon Focus or natural weapon, Small size or smaller.

Benefit(s): You ignore your Strength penalty to damage when making attacks with your racial natural weapons and weapons for which you have the Weapon Focus feat.

Is this the feat you're talking about?

[vhok]

Derek Dalton wrote:

The feat is pretty cool all things considered. But here's my question. I've got a melee build kobold with a positive str of 14. With this feat would I add 4 points to my str for damage purposes? In this case instead of +2 damage would I know do +4 instead since my strength in this case would be 18?

you have 14 str meaning +2 bonus and no str penalty the feat does literally nothing for you.

[Quixote]

Oh, I see. You're reading it as "ignore your *racial* Strength penalty", yeah?

Your Strength penalty *to damage*, as the feat says, is the amount you subtract from your damage roll. So your typical kobold with a Str of 6-7, ignores their -2 to damage. It lets you deal damage as if you have Str10, effectively.
So in your super-strong kobold's case, this is a dead feat. They don't have a Strength penalty to damage, so the benefit doesn't actually do anything for you.

[Derek Dalton]

I figured as much. He's a Barbarian alchemist so when he mutates and rages his str jumps from 14 to a total of 20. He's a Dragonblooded Alchemist.

[Ryze Kuja]

Yeah, this feat would only apply if you had a penalty to Strength, like a 7 (-2 mod) would be treated as if you had a 10 (0 mod).

[Derek Dalton]

Got another question. Take Dragon scale and a feat gives him a Natural AC of +1. Now have Dragonblood Mutagen. It states he gets a +2 natural armor bonus. So would they stack? Or would it only give him a +2 when he uses mutagen?

[Name Violation]

Derek Dalton wrote:

Got another question. Take Dragon scale and a feat gives him a Natural AC of +1. Now have Dragonblood Mutagen. It states he gets a +2 natural armor bonus. So would they stack? Or would it only give him a +2 when he uses mutagen?

+2 over rides +1

If it were labeled an enhancement to natural armor (like barkskin) it would attack

[Derek Dalton]

Thank you. Got rid of natural armor for dragon scale getting 5 acid resistence. Mutagen is only 10 minutes but that will go up as I level up.