Otterscrubber
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In our last adventure our DM had us fight some vampire monks. My question is do they get their level drain with all their hand to hand attacks, or just with their slam attack, which can only be used once per round?
Otterscrubber said:In our last adventure our DM had us fight some vampire monks. My question is do they get their level drain with all their hand to hand attacks, or just with their slam attack, which can only be used once per round?
Would all of the unarmed strikes by a vampiric monk
be considered slam attacks and bestow negative levels?
Would the vampire monk use its slam damage rating or
its monk unarmed damage rating?
   Creatures with level-draining ability drain levels only once
per action, so if they get multiple attacks, only the first hit in
a series of hits bestows a negative level. (Note that a hasted
creature bestows a negative level with a hit during its regular
action and another negative level with a hit during its extra
partial action.)
   As pointed out before, creatures with monk levels can
combine their natural weapons and their monk unarmed
attacks in any way they see fit. For example, the monk could
use either its slam damage rating or its monk unarmed
damage rating, as it chooses. In either case, it can drain
energy as noted earlier. If the vampire wishes to use its monk
unarmed attack rate, it must use only its monk attack bonus,
however.
BenjaminB said:What the heck is a slam attack anyway?