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<blockquote data-quote="jgsugden" data-source="post: 1360835" data-attributes="member: 2629"><p>Flurry of blows, etc ... may not be used with a natural weapon gained via polymorph. It may be performed with an unarmed strike (a defined term in D&D meaning an unarmed attack turned into a manufactures/natural attack via the feat unarmed strike) or with a monk weapon. A natural weapon gained via polymorph is not an unarmed strike - it is a natural weapon.</p><p></p><p>That does not mean that the druid can not do a flurry of blows while in animal form. It can. It just doesn't use the attack values of the natural weapons. It instead uses the monk damage dice for natural attacks (modified for size). So, a medium monk of 10th level that normally deals d10 damage with an unarmed strike that is polymorphed into a large creature may make unarmed strikes for 2d8 damage (d10 increases to 2d8 with a size increase) and use the flurry of blows ability with those attacks (3 attacks at BAB +7/+7/+2).</p><p></p><p>The druid that multiclasses into monk (a lawful neutral druid) will also gain the AC bonus from wisdom of a monk when in wildshape form, though a DM may wish to <strong>house rule</strong> the monk AC bonus to work like the duelist AC bonus (see the DMG description of the duelist) to prevent too much of a gain from taking 1 level of monk.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jgsugden, post: 1360835, member: 2629"] Flurry of blows, etc ... may not be used with a natural weapon gained via polymorph. It may be performed with an unarmed strike (a defined term in D&D meaning an unarmed attack turned into a manufactures/natural attack via the feat unarmed strike) or with a monk weapon. A natural weapon gained via polymorph is not an unarmed strike - it is a natural weapon. That does not mean that the druid can not do a flurry of blows while in animal form. It can. It just doesn't use the attack values of the natural weapons. It instead uses the monk damage dice for natural attacks (modified for size). So, a medium monk of 10th level that normally deals d10 damage with an unarmed strike that is polymorphed into a large creature may make unarmed strikes for 2d8 damage (d10 increases to 2d8 with a size increase) and use the flurry of blows ability with those attacks (3 attacks at BAB +7/+7/+2). The druid that multiclasses into monk (a lawful neutral druid) will also gain the AC bonus from wisdom of a monk when in wildshape form, though a DM may wish to [b]house rule[/b] the monk AC bonus to work like the duelist AC bonus (see the DMG description of the duelist) to prevent too much of a gain from taking 1 level of monk. [/QUOTE]
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