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<blockquote data-quote="Doctor Bomb" data-source="post: 1875248" data-attributes="member: 8300"><p>The only difference between Improved Unarmed Strike and Combat Martial Artist is the BAB +1 prereq and the increase in die type damage.</p><p></p><p>That being said, I think pulling those feats into the fighter bonus list is a great idea, and I would go as far as replacing the Improved Unarmed Strike text* with that of the Combat Martial Artist in my campaign. (I think I already did that, but it's been about a year and a half since I had a monk in my game group....)</p><p></p><p>I am adding these to my campaign, replacing the "Combat Martial Artist" labels with "Precise Unarmed Strike" for the Improved CMA feat, and "Greater Unarmed Strike" for the Advanced CMA feat. </p><p></p><p>HMMM, fighters wearing a Cestus count as armed but are carrying no weapon, could they benefit from this as well?</p><p></p><p>*If you don't want your experts, rogues, etc. to wait a level before starting as martial artists, leave both in game, and add "Improved Unarmed Strike or" in front of the Combat Martial Artist prereq in the follow on feats. Sneak attack unarmed damage is TASTY!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doctor Bomb, post: 1875248, member: 8300"] The only difference between Improved Unarmed Strike and Combat Martial Artist is the BAB +1 prereq and the increase in die type damage. That being said, I think pulling those feats into the fighter bonus list is a great idea, and I would go as far as replacing the Improved Unarmed Strike text* with that of the Combat Martial Artist in my campaign. (I think I already did that, but it's been about a year and a half since I had a monk in my game group....) I am adding these to my campaign, replacing the "Combat Martial Artist" labels with "Precise Unarmed Strike" for the Improved CMA feat, and "Greater Unarmed Strike" for the Advanced CMA feat. HMMM, fighters wearing a Cestus count as armed but are carrying no weapon, could they benefit from this as well? *If you don't want your experts, rogues, etc. to wait a level before starting as martial artists, leave both in game, and add "Improved Unarmed Strike or" in front of the Combat Martial Artist prereq in the follow on feats. Sneak attack unarmed damage is TASTY! [/QUOTE]
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