Racial creation - players companion related

Hi folks! If I were trying to create a race with a natural weapon but not an attack routine, what would be the build point pricing by die size?

 

Ie: how big a bite damage would 1 build point buy?

 

Thanks!

I'd say that a single power gets you a 1d4-1 bite - it's roughly equivalent to brawling damage (1d3 fist, 1d4 kick (-2 atk)), and the Unarmed Fighting proficiency on pg 154 of ACKS:PC is a single proficiency/power that allows for lethal damage while brawling.

Put alternatively, you just give your race Unarmed Fighting (Bite), and it's a peculiar twist of their biology that allows it to be for a bite attack.

(the reverse of this then implies that a particularly dirty (normal human) fighter that bites a guy during a bar fight does nonlethal damage eq. to a kick, perhaps at the -2 to attack as well, which then further implies the Mike Tyson Memorial Rule that getting a person to 0HP via nonlethal damage involves a special roll on a possibly alternate Mortal Wounds table for very specific sorts of scars/cosmetic damage...)

 

Yes, that sounds reasonable. Even if the damage is poor, it is still an attack that the character can never loose. How would you suggest the damage proceeds from there? I am comparing this to the bite/claw/claw attack routine granted from Fangs and Claws. If one point buys a d4-1 and two can get d4-1 and two d2-1's, what would two points get for just a single attack?

I would go with 1d6

Attack routines typically have an average damage spread across the routine, thus a single attack would roughly do the same average damage as the full routine.

Thus a two point fangs and claws routine is roughly 2.5 (0.5 + 0.5 + 1.5) average damage or 1d4 for a single attack.

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Attack routines typically have an average damage spread across the routine, thus a single attack would roughly do the same average damage as the full routine.

Thus a two point fangs and claws routine is roughly 2.5 (0.5 + 0.5 + 1.5) average damage or 1d4 for a single attack.

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Now that is an excellent piece of information I would not have noticed! Because we shouldn't discount the value of splitting damage to many targets (and potentially gaining STR bonus on each of those attacks), I think I'll go with a d6 as Frijoles Junior suggested. Thanks!