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Homebrew better unarmed strike 5e2/6/2024 ![]() Add the wielder’s Strength bonus (if any) to damage rolls for melee attacks with a light weapon if it’s used in the primary hand, or one-half the wielder’s Strength bonus if it’s used in the off hand. It indicates whether a melee weapon, when wielded by a character of the weapon’s size category, is considered a light weapon, a one-handed weapon, or a two-handed weapon.Ī light weapon is easier to use in one’s off hand than a one-handed weapon is, and it can be used while grappling. This designation is a measure of how much effort it takes to wield a weapon in combat. Light, One-Handed, and Two-Handed Melee Weapons ![]() Then add on top of that, that if a monk has natural attacks of his own, he can add those ON TOP OF his unarmed strike attack routine, just like a monster with natural attacks and a manufactured weapon can slash you with a sword a bunch of times and then gore you with its horns. Also, unarmed strike attacks can be used interchangably with special monk weapons in a flurry, which again implies that an unarmed strike is the equivalent of a manufactured weapon. This general stance is also backed up by the itterative attack sequence only granted to manufactured weapons, natural weapons only get on attack per round buy default. A Small monk deals less damage than the amount given there with her unarmed attacks, while a Large monk deals more damage see Table: Small or Large Monk Unarmed Damage. The unarmed damage on Table: The Monk is for Medium monks. She has the same choice to deal lethal or nonlethal damage while grappling.Ī monk’s unarmed strike is treated both as a manufactured weapon and a natural weapon for the purpose of spells and effects that enhance or improve either manufactured weapons or natural weapons.Ī monk also deals more damage with her unarmed strikes than a normal person would, as shown on Table: The Monk. Usually a monk’s unarmed strikes deal lethal damage, but she can choose to deal nonlethal damage instead with no penalty on her attack roll. A monk may thus apply her full Strength bonus on damage rolls for all her unarmed strikes. There is no such thing as an off-hand attack for a monk striking unarmed. ![]() This means that a monk may even make unarmed strikes with her hands full. A monk’s attacks may be with either fist interchangeably or even from elbows, knees, and feet. They did learn something, it’s just not what you expected them to learn.At 1st level, a monk gains Improved Unarmed Strike as a bonus feat. Then they go off and learns martial arts and comes back knowing how to do either 1d4+ (Str or Dex) slashing damage with their Natural Weapon, or1d4+ (Str or Dex) bludgeoning damage with their Unarmed Strike. The other aspect to consider is that Leonin could just innately not need training to use their claws as it is a part of their form, and players would need to consider the other RP aspects that answer why the Leonin decided to become a monk to begin with and lean more into that.Ī Leonin knows how to use its claws and brute force to do 1d4+Str slashing damage with their Natural Weapon, or their punches and kicks with brute force to do 1+Str bludgeoning damage with their Unarmed Strike. Basically what I mean is just ignore the whole you can reroll the weapon’s damage dice where it implies it only works for weapons bit and let it work for your Leonin's unarmed strikes. I'd just make a special case where a Leonin Monk's unarmed attacks count as a weapon in regards to the Savage Attacker feat possibly. Seems a playable race with natural weapons should get better at using those natural weapons with training versus a commoner of that race with no training. Doesn't training make them better in some negligible way? Know vital points, gets faster, something?
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