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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mvincent" data-source="post: 4009366" data-attributes="member: 27034">Yup. Even the FAQ and RotG tend to stay away from this one. Best to ask your DM.However, the 3.5 FAQ (if desired) does say:"Can a monk make disarm, sunder, and trip attacksduring her flurry of blows? What about grapple checks?What about bull rushes, overruns, or other special combatmaneuvers?As long as every attack is made with one of the monk’sspecial weapons (that is, weapons allowed as part of a flurry),the monk can perform any special attack that takes the place ofa normal attack. She’s free to disarm, sunder, trip, and grappleto her heart’s content."This answer has some issues because initiating a grapple is an unarmed attack, but not specifically an unarmed strike... and the concensus is that there is a difference between the two. However, this may not be a truism, since both Andy Collins and Skip Williams (and other WotC authors) have used the terms interchangeably.But this only covers initiating a grapple. Once a monk is in a grapple, then we have a separate issue of whether flurry is similar to TWF'ing or multi-limb fighting (which cannot be done in a grapple), and/or whether it counts as effectively increasing your BAB.Again, best to ask your DM (or just avoid the whole issue entirely by never trying to flurry in a grapple).</blockquote>