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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mneme" data-source="post: 5078810" data-attributes="member: 59248">This is simple enough.When a monk (or assassin or any other weapon-using psionic character) uses a weapon as an implement, they aren't hitting things with the weapon.  They're hitting things with their Chi (or, if you like, with their mind).As such, they don't get any of the features they'd get if they were hitting people with the weapon -- no high crit, no weapon die, no weapon properties like brutal -- those all affect the weapon's physical form--but the physical weapon isn't going anywhere near their foes, any more than a Swordmage's sword is hitting people when they channel arcs of lightning or bursts of fire through it.  They do get the weapon's magical properties (just like a swordsmage or sorcerer gets from their weapon), as the attack's being channelled through the weapon.But the weapon isn't hitting their enemies.  Psychic force (or magic, if you like) is hitting their enemies. (edit: Or your fists!  The point is that for a monk, the weapon they're holding, if they bother bringing on, is a prop--a power source, but not something to use directly against their enemies.  Against foes, a monk uses fists, feet, their head, or any other part of their body--maybe part of their weapon if it's convenient, but not in any way where the fact that it's a weapon overrrides their technique.  The weapon comes into play when using multiclass powers or making attacks of opportunity -- but why would a monk use a weapon rather than holistic technique in situations (most of them) where the technique is far more effective?  Their ability to channel the weapon's magic and magical properties is enough!)</blockquote>

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