Uplifted Duck beak striker or not?

[jacobmuller]

Tinkering with some uplift stats, this one is from a Scoter Duck, and wondered if this was okay:
Striker (Cannot Parry, -40%) Blunt Beak Thr+1 [3]; Striking ST 2 (Beak only, -50%) [5].

Badly modeled?

[Sam Baughn]

Any particular reason for a blunt beak to not just be a default bite attack?

[Psychotime]

Just get a beak. It's only 1 point and it's large piercing.

Also, One Attack Only is -60%, not -50%.

[jacobmuller]

Thank you!
Striker (Cannot Parry, -40%) Blunt Beak Thr+1 [3]; Striking ST 2 (Beak only, -60%) [4].

I'm including Weak Bite and smacking someone with the beak has comedic value over being savagely nipped. Add in that the typical armour will be practically impervious to Imp but vulnerable to crushing and it becomes threateningly funny.
Also, the Scoter has a typical blunt duck beak and, although Imp damage is tempting, I thought better to keep the shape... And it'll be a humanoid, black duck who can't talk properly?

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by jacobmuller

And it'll be a humanoid, black duck who can't talk properly?

That's despicable!

[jacobmuller]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

That's despicable!

He'll either be a cult icon amongst Scooters or a "whatever you do, don't mention the D word".

I guess it is, as psychotime said, simpler and cheaper to just use Beak. But it'd have to be blunt, Thr Cr?
(And Striker is meant to be an added body part, doh!)

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by jacobmuller

I guess it is, as psychotime said, simpler and cheaper to just use Beak. But it'd have to be blunt, Thr Cr?

If it doesn't do anything different than a human bite or headbutt then I'd think it's just a 0 point feature, really.

(And Striker is meant to be an added body part, doh!)

It doesn't have to be, look how Martial Arts uses it for "hardened" striking surfaces on limbs. The only real advantage this will give your ducks is protecting them from the "Parrying Unarmed Attacks" rule.

[jacobmuller]

Thank you - that is a very good reason to spend 3cp.

[Psychotime]

Originally Posted by jacobmuller

I guess it is, as psychotime said, simpler and cheaper to just use Beak. But it'd have to be blunt, Thr Cr?
(And Striker is meant to be an added body part, doh!)

If Striker can make anything from tails to horns to Buns of Steel (not kidding, MA47) a beak is fair game. It's just that they've already made something for it.

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by Psychotime

It's just that they've already made something for it.

Teeth doesn't protect against the damage from successful parries, Striker does.