Ferrous Form & unarmed attacks

[Falco271]

Going through Gortle's excellent spell guide and saw the Ferrous form spell. It mentions fist strikes (I take it to mean unarmed attacks) to become 1d10

Your fist Strikes have a 1d10 damage die

Not a battleform, doesn't mention any changes in traits for attacks. So would this mean a dragon sorcerer with Dragon Claws would suddenly have d10 attacks? Or your standard 1d4 unarmed would now be 1d10, keeping the agile & finesse traits?

[shroudb]

It has the Polymorph trait, so you cannot use a second polymorph effect.
Dragon claws has the Morph trait, meaning it stacks with other Morph/Polymorph effects as long as they don't change the same body part (which in this case they do, they both change your hands).

So, No to stacking with dragon claws.

On the other hand you are correct that it doesn't modify the Fist attack traits, so they continue to be both Agile and Finesse.

[HammerJack]

Assuming that Fist Strikes means all Unarmed Attacks instead of just Fist is incorrect, though. If you have claws, fangs, tail slaps, Crane Wing strikes from Crane Stance or laser beam eyes, none of those are affected.

[shroudb]

HammerJack wrote:

Assuming that Fist Strikes means all Unarmed Attacks instead of just Fist is incorrect, though. If you have claws, fangs, tail slaps, Crane Wing strikes from Crane Stance or laser beam eyes, none of those are affected.

Yes, only Fist attacks are gaining the d10 damage bump, but also your whole hand is (heck, your whole body is) Polymorphed, so a Morph effect wouldn't work.

[Deriven Firelion]

Biggest downside of ferrous form is no healing. I generally think that means use it early and take advantage of the DR and immunities. Does work great with handwraps.