Constrictor snake's reach?

[Ravingdork]

What's the reach of a large constrictor snake animal companion?

[James Jacobs]

Ravingdork wrote:

What's the reach of a large constrictor snake animal companion?

5 feet.

10 feet reach for Large creatures is almost always limited to "tall" (AKA bipedal) creatures.

[Ravingdork]

James Jacobs wrote:

Ravingdork wrote:

What's the reach of a large constrictor snake animal companion?

5 feet.

10 feet reach for Large creatures is almost always limited to "tall" (AKA bipedal) creatures.

Thank you for the quick response!

[Iczer]

Oops......

I must apologise then, to last night's swallowed cleric

Batts

[SIRHITMANHEART]

I don't understand y that is since snakes attcak by body length not body size for instance u looking at a 10. Foot long in the wild the snake could tag you with two thirds of its body length

[SIRHITMANHEART]

I know what I need to do that real world situatin but can I use a magic item to qualify for a feat and two can I give the magic I want to my snake because I need the int bonus to qualify for my feat I want for my snake

[blackbloodtroll]

5 year necro, huh?

What is your question?

[SIRHITMANHEART]

Head band of vast int can I use it to qelify for a feat on my snake
And two is snakes dont sit back and wait for prey be beside them to attack as I said before snakes strectch their body's

[blackbloodtroll]

I don't understand the question.

[SIRHITMANHEART]

My snake int plus one needs int three and since snakes are not repersented in the same way the real wild snakes are the fact that snakes reach out to attack. A threat or prey I need a feat to do this and one I was thinking was headband of vast int to get my feat
For my snake

[Nefreet]

(I'm going to steer this discussion back to the OP, and its first reply, if nobody minds)

James Jacobs wrote:

Ravingdork wrote:

What's the reach of a large constrictor snake animal companion?

5 feet.

10 feet reach for Large creatures is almost always limited to "tall" (AKA bipedal) creatures.

For those reading this and about to exclaim, "wait, I thought large snakes had a reach of 10 feet", remember that James' response is from 5 years ago (before there were any statblocks for a large-sized snake in print).

Every large-sized snake that's been printed in a Bestiary since has had a reach of 10 feet.

[SIRHITMANHEART]

So if I find a newer printing of the beastiary I should find a reach attck of 10

[Paladin of Baha-who?]

The Bestiary doesn't have such a listing, but the Bestiary 2 does have a large sized snake (a giant emperor cobra) with a reach of 10ft. If your snake animal companion is large, it will have a reach of 10ft. Note that animal companions qualify for certain feats regardless of their intelligence, so you don't have to give it a headband in order to use those feats.

[SIRHITMANHEART]

Ok so go by beastly 2 then

[SIRHITMANHEART]

But in the core rule book says use the bestairy does bestairy 2 over ride bestairy 1

[Nefreet]

There are no large-sized snakes in Bestiary 1 to go off of.

[Rikkan]

Nefreet wrote:

There are no large-sized snakes in Bestiary 1 to go off of.

It might not have the statblock for a large-sized snake, but there are large snakes in the first bestiary.

PRD wrote:

Snake, Constrictor

This large snake has a thick, muscular body and dull green scales decorated with dirty brown stripes.

N Medium animal

[Nefreet]

-_-

[SIRHITMANHEART]

That's the thing the bestairy does have a stat block but no reach attack

[SIRHITMANHEART]

Unless I am missing something her

[SIRHITMANHEART]

Because when they attacking stretch their body's

[Nefreet]

There is no large-sized snake in the Bestiary.

Rikkan was doing a play on words, quoting the descriptive text for the medium-sized snake that is in the Bestiary.

Before Bestiary II was released, the question of how far a snake could reach was a legitimate question. There was no answer anywhere in print.

When Bestiary II was released, it contained *two* different snake statblocks: one that was large-sized, and one that was gargantuan-sized.

The large-sized snake has a reach of 10' (equal to its space) and the gargantuan-sized snake has a reach of 20' (equal to its space).

Using these two statblocks we can safely assume that snakes, in general, have a reach equal to their space.

5' for a medium-sized snake
10' for a large-sized snake
15' for a huge-sized snake
20' for a gargantuan-sized snake
30' for a colossal-sized snake

You needn't rationalize it by constrictor vs viper, or use real-life physics to explain it. We have a statblock (two) that we can infer from, and that's all we need.

[SIRHITMANHEART]

Makes sense it's just that I was at a con that brought up the qestion so I have been playing it wright my large snake has a 10 foot reach to body size

[SIRHITMANHEART]

I play snake shaman and I chose the constrictor as my animal of choice

[Paladin of Baha-who?]

Large-sized snake animal companions get reach 10ft, in every instance that I've seen, and in Herolab.

[SIRHITMANHEART]

That's what I get as well