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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 4694611" data-attributes="member: 35909">A monk's whole body can be used as a weapon -- punches, kicks, elbows, knees, headbutts, butt bounces...whatever strikes your fancy.  So I don't see why merely touching the monk's body at any location wouldn't be sufficient...I don't know, it is listed as a simple weapon, and unlike the questionable status of unarmed strike (which I've decided is a "manufactured weapon" normally, with monks getting special treatment), is definitely a manufactured weapon.  The -4 or get simple weapon proficiency clause also seemed like a nice counter balance to allowing gauntlet-armed monks to overcome material DR (and I suppose even cheaply enhance their unarmed strikes, not that they didn't just get GMW or GMF cast in most parties anyway).First off, how does IUS help with gauntlets?  Gauntlets make your attacks lethal and thus get rid of the act of provoking AoO's.  Further, by my interpretation, gauntlets remove the ability to choose lethal or nonlethal that IUS grants.  So what exactly is the feat benefiting you in that circumstance?As to your first point...what?!  Gauntlets may be weapons, but they don't have their own damage value.  They are unarmed strikes, and deal appropriate (lethal) unarmed strike damage.  How would the monk's higher unarmed damage not apply?</blockquote>