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<blockquote data-quote="kerbarian" data-source="post: 3034821" data-attributes="member: 40393">What I had in mind was that the scope of the flurry of blows was essentially &quot;all manufactured weapon attacks made during the full attack action&quot;.&nbsp; Going by the D&amp;D definition of manufactured weapon attacks, of course, which oddly enough includes unarmed strikes, even from a commoner.Writing it out like that, it does look somewhat contrived.&nbsp; The real reason I was thinking that isn't so much the wording of the rules but the way they're organized.&nbsp; Most of the PHB describes everything in terms of manufactured weapon attacks and doesn't even acknowledge the possibility of natural attacks.&nbsp; You have to go to the MM to even find out how they can be combined.&nbsp; So my assumption is that the monk rules were written like most of the other rules in the PHB -- from the perspective of manufactured weapon attacks only -- and the flurry rules would refer only to those.Looking at it as purely a RAW issue, I did spot something that supports that position.&nbsp; The monk table in the PHB has the column &quot;Flurry of Blows Attack Bonus&quot;, and it lists only the attacks that would be gained from BAB plus flurry.&nbsp; That seems like a pretty clear definition of the scope of flurry to me.&nbsp; Of course, the -2 penalty applies to all attacks during the round, not just flurry attacks, so natural attacks would still get the penalty.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kerbarian, post: 3034821, member: 40393"] What I had in mind was that the scope of the flurry of blows was essentially "all manufactured weapon attacks made during the full attack action". Going by the D&D definition of manufactured weapon attacks, of course, which oddly enough includes unarmed strikes, even from a commoner. Writing it out like that, it does look somewhat contrived. The real reason I was thinking that isn't so much the wording of the rules but the way they're organized. Most of the PHB describes everything in terms of manufactured weapon attacks and doesn't even acknowledge the possibility of natural attacks. You have to go to the MM to even find out how they can be combined. So my assumption is that the monk rules were written like most of the other rules in the PHB -- from the perspective of manufactured weapon attacks only -- and the flurry rules would refer only to those. Looking at it as purely a RAW issue, I did spot something that supports that position. The monk table in the PHB has the column "Flurry of Blows Attack Bonus", and it lists only the attacks that would be gained from BAB plus flurry. That seems like a pretty clear definition of the scope of flurry to me. Of course, the -2 penalty applies to all attacks during the round, not just flurry attacks, so natural attacks would still get the penalty. [/QUOTE]

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