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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 1875040" data-attributes="member: 14159">Okay, I've been thinking about the subject of unarmed combat in D&D.As the rules currently stand in D&D 3.x, the only way to be an effective unarmed combatant is to be a Monk (funky PrC's excluded).  The Improved Unarmed Combat feat is a joke it's so poor, and Monks don't meet many peoples character concepts.  Personally, I like monks in D&D and don't want them watered down into a general "unarmed fighter" class, I like my wuxia-style monks, but there should be a way to model effective unarmed combat in D&D with any class without removing the benefit that the Monk is the best Unarmed fighter.The Combat Martial Arts feat tree from d20 seems to present an option for this.    This improves upon Improved Unarmed Combat, making unarmed strikes usable by other classes, while not giving them clearly an advantage, since they start at 1d6 damage, while the feat just gives 1d4.  Presumably some language may be added to change the damage for smaller/larger characters.I'd make them all Fighter Bonus Feats, and the Monk Unarmed Strike ability count as Combat Martial Arts for prereqs (buying Improved and Advanced, since they don't get anything to improve their critical range).  Also, the name might be changed a little for flavor purposes.But, what do people think of the idea in general?</blockquote>