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5 years ago ::
Jul 02, 2008 - 11:25PM
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I see, I thought a nonprehensile tail you do not have complete control to a certain extent over as well. But as someone said earlier, I'm not sure one would have the strength to do significant damage. That or they could just do base damage, without strength added in.
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5 years ago ::
Jul 03, 2008 - 4:32AM
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It should be noted that some groups in the ancient world used to grow ponytails and plait hair so that daggers and spikes could be tied to the ends and used as weapons.
I could see a Tiefling doing a similar thing, so that if he spins at velocity, the tail-weapon whips up and strikes the legs of his opponent...
It'd probably be strapped to the tail using leather buckles or something, though...
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5 years ago ::
Jul 03, 2008 - 6:35AM
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That Tiefling also makes an appearance in Dragon. At the very least, his tail blade discourages children from playfully grabbing it. As they are wont to do with tails.
The Bruce Campbell of D&D.
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5 years ago ::
Jul 03, 2008 - 1:38PM
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Didn't think of it from spinning to lash at their tail. How would you view that attack? Just the 1d4 or if it was a SA 1d4+2d8, subtracting str or dex though to damage?
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5 years ago ::
Jul 03, 2008 - 2:20PM
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Non-prehensile pretty much means that it cannot grab/hold something esp. by curling around it.
So strapping a weapon to a tail wouldn't disallow it from being used to attack - you just can't hold anything with the tail.
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5 years ago ::
Jul 03, 2008 - 2:27PM
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Yes, we went over that yesterday I believe. :P
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5 years ago ::
Jul 03, 2008 - 5:28PM
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What about swimming? Would the tail be useful for swimming? The art for TFD shows the tail to have a fair amount of strength mobility and not something that just drags behind the tiefling. What would people think about the tail aiding in swimming or perhaps as a trip device?
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5 years ago ::
Jul 03, 2008 - 7:08PM
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Just because it's a tail doesn't mean it would drag behind you. And I dunno about that.
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5 years ago ::
Jul 03, 2008 - 7:23PM
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What about swimming? Would the tail be useful for swimming? The art for TFD shows the tail to have a fair amount of strength mobility and not something that just drags behind the tiefling. What would people think about the tail aiding in swimming or perhaps as a trip device?
Given that the tails are typically depicted as tapering down to very narrow points at the end, I'd say that they'd be fairly useless for swimming. As for tripping, maybe or maybe not, depends on how flexible they are.
One thing they would be good for, however, is balance. Whether tightrope walking or trying to make a sharp turn while running, a tielfing's tail would definitely come in handy.
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5 years ago ::
Jul 03, 2008 - 7:26PM
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Ah, I was wondering because in the Monster Manual, there is a picture of a tiefling under "Tiefling" with a dagger on its tail. It also shows a prehensile tail in my eyes. Would the tiefling atleast be able to flick the tail upwards to unsheath the dagger though? The thing I'm wondering, is having the shortsword on his waist sheathed, and 5 daggers in various locations, with the one on the tail as well.
If possible, I was thinking it would be possible to whip the dagger around, either to attack with it or draw it.
You need to understand that artists are hired to DRAW, not to know the rules. Thus the artist has no idea that tiefling don't have prehensile tails. Case in point I talked to a guy who drew the cyborg ninja in one of the Cyberpunk books and I wanted to know what cyberware the guy had on him. The artist had NO clue. He said he was told to draw a cyborg ninja and that's what he came up with. You CANNOT take the artwork as cannon. It's eye candy. That's it.
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