Looking for ways to get a primary tail attack

[GargantuanOwl]

So I'm going to be starting a campaign soon and I really want to create a dragon born fighter/dragonfire adept with a tail attack which I can use to trip opponents. I know there is a graft that I can get but I feel like a dragon born wouldnt want that due to their dragon pride and seeing dragon trophies as disgusting, also I want it ASAP and getting a graft would take to long for me. My DM says I may use anything in any 3.5 book (and may possibly be able to be talked into 3.0) or any dragon magazine, but I only have starting equipment or anything else worth no more than 5500gp.

[Psyren]

Shape Soulmeld (Dragon Tail) from Dragon Magic will give you a tail attack, but it's hard to combine it with other attacks as written.

[Forrestfire]

The Dragon Tail feat from Races of the Dragon grants a tail attack, but it is noted to be Secondary. However, if you take the Two-Weapon Fighting feat and the Prehensile Tail feat (Serpent Kingdoms), you can then use the tail as a "hand" to use a weapon, making it effectively primary (and, in fact, your Two-Weapon Fighting will upgrade to Multiweapon Fighting). Slap a locked gauntlet (as a gauntlet, it is a weapon, and thus wieldable by the tail. Maybe it's better refluffed as strapping the blade to the tail) and a sickle or something onto it, and you've got the same amount of damage you'd be doing with a tail attack, and almost the same penalty as if you were using it in normal melee.

And it can trip things, which a normal tail would not be able to do.

[Troacctid]

And it can trip things, which a normal tail would not be able to do.

Why couldn't a normal tail trip things? Tripping only requires making an unarmed melee touch attack; it doesn't have to be with your hands or feet.

[Forrestfire]

Oh, my bad. Correction: A normal trip attack doesn't trip things. You could do it with any tail, even one that doesn't have any attacks. Just need to unarmed touch... And I now want to play someone who uses prehensile hair to trip attack people.

[Psyren]

Oh, my bad. Correction: A normal trip attack doesn't trip things. You could do it with any tail, even one that doesn't have any attacks. Just need to unarmed touch... And I now want to play someone who uses prehensile hair to trip attack people.

Pathfinder Witch (particularly the white-haired witch archetype) can do this easily.

[Sian]

and, in fact, your Two-Weapon Fighting will upgrade to Multiweapon Fighting

Where is this actually writen? ... been looking after it for some time, but i've been unable to find it.

[hamishspence]

And I now want to play someone who uses prehensile hair to trip attack people.

One of the Dungeon Magazine issues had rules for blades worn in the hair, as a weapon - issue 120. Those are bonus attacks though, rather than main ones - used in a full-round attack.

[Psyren]

Where is this actually writen? ... been looking after it for some time, but i've been unable to find it.

It's from the special line:


Multiweapon Fighting [General]
Prerequisites
Dex 13, three or more hands.

Benefit
Penalties for fighting with multiple weapons are reduced by 2 with the primary hand and reduced by 6 with off hands.

Normal
A creature without this feat takes a -6 penalty on attacks made with its primary hand and a -10 penalty on attacks made with its off hands. (It has one primary hand, and all the others are off hands.) See Two-Weapon Fighting.

Special
This feat replaces the Two-Weapon Fighting feat for creatures with more than two arms.

Though your DM may not allow this for a tail-arm.

[WhamBamSam]

The Prehensile Tail feat explicitly says it counts as a third hand for the purposes of Multiweapon Fighting.


You can use your tail as an extra "hand." It can grasp melee weapons and u se them in combat, a lthough the normal penalties for using an off-hand weapon apply. If you have two hands, your tail counts as a third hand for the purpose of the Multiweapon Fighting feat and all other feats for which it is a prerequisite. You can also use your tail to assist with grapple checks and Climb checks. You gain a +2 competence bonus on all such checks.This is the current 3.5 version, though the one in Savage Species uses the same language if you choose not to use Serpent Kingdoms.

[GargantuanOwl]

Thanks the soul meld is exactly what I'm looking for. Didn't even think of it.