Grow Spikes

Feats

A child of the manticore can grow spikes from her body and throw them. At 1st level, a child of the manticore can throw spikes from her body as a natural throwing ranged attack, which replaces her claw attack. This ability otherwise functions as the shifter claws class feature and benefits from all shifter claws improvements as well as shifter's fury. At will, a child of the manticore in her natural form can gain two spike attacks as a swift action to use as a weapon. The spikes can be used as a primary natural attack, dealing 1d4 points of piercing damage (1d3 if she is Small). As the child of the manticore gains levels, the power of her spikes increases. At 3rd level, her spikes bypass DR N/cold iron, N/magic, and N/silver. At 7th level, her spike damage increases to 1d6 (1d4 if Small). At 11th level, her spike damage increases to 1d8 (1d6 if Small). At 13th level, her spike damage increases to 1d10 (1d8 if Small). At 17th level, the damage die does not increase, but the critical multiplier becomes ×3. Finally, at 19th level, the spikes bypass DR N/adamantine and N/—.