Velociraptor Animal Companion Talons Damage not working properly?
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As seen in that image, it's displaying as 1d6 when you hover the weapon itself... but in the damage section, and when actually making attacks, it's still rolling 1d4 over 1d6. The previous patch notes mentioned it being 1d3 when it should have been 1d6, so that seems to have got a partial fix, but not a full one. I do have a few mods installed, so I'm wondering if this is an issue people without any are also running into.
Posted Sep 11, 2021, 9:56 PM UTC
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I don't know, but maybe because your raptor is small ? Claw, unarmed attack with small size does less damage then medium size.
Not sure tho.
Sure, if that's the case tho, why does the animal companion sheet when you first select one says that the talons are 1d6, not 1d4. Why does mousing over it say it's 1d6? The bug might be in some of those descriptions are wrong and the rolled amount is right... but that's still a bug then.
It might be showing the damage they'll deal at level 6/7 or whenever it is they go up one size.
That's not how other Animal Companions work according to their selections, and according to the normal Pathfinder ruleset for Velociraptor companions, it should be 1d6 Talons when Small, and 1d8 Talons when medium. The patch notes also say it should be 1d6.
That's why I'm asking if this is something other people have for their Velociraptor companions.
Other animals companions besides horses start at medium and turn large at LV 7. But they still do the same damage.
Raptor is the only animal that start small and turn medium. Also the damage is still 1d6 just after it turn LV 7.
Well, I don't know how it works in pnp, but if for example a small character equips a heavy crossbow it will deal less damage due to their size despite it still saying 1-10 on the weapon's tooltip, because the weapon is actually a 1-10 damage weapon. It's the same way that casting enlarge person increases damage die but keeps the weapon tooltip the same.
In this case I believe the talons themselves are 1d6, and the 1d4 comes when the damage is downgraded due to size.