Natural attacks skill

Skill 'beast strike'.

• This is a passive skill, it works automatically.

Natural attacks are the weapons a beast is born with. What it does depends on its body: horns and tusks gore and knock you down, claws rake and leave a bleeding wound, fangs maul (a wolf also hamstrings you, a venomous beast poisons), hooves trample whoever is already down, wings buffet and throw dust in your eyes, a beak pecks at your eyes, pincers and tentacles grab and hold, a snake coils and squeezes, a spider webs you and then bites.

A natural attack goes past shield, parry and dodge, but luck lets you slip it now and then. A bleeding wound keeps taking health for a few seconds, even after the fight. A grip keeps you from fleeing: every try to flee is first a try to tear free. Small beasts strike rarely and only wound, poison or wear you out. Veterans and bosses use their whole body and chain their attacks.