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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Doctor Shaft" data-source="post: 1992915" data-attributes="member: 25737">Also, I have a particular special ability that grants me the ability to do significant damage to all things that I touch, or that touch me during a round. Can I convert all my normal attacks into multiple "touch" attacks, say for a creature that has a low touch AC, but a high DR/normal AC?By the rules... no.  A monk's "Flurry of Blows" attack progression is only valid when using unarmed strikes or valid monk weapons like the kama, quarterstaff.  For instance, by the rules, a monk should not be able to do five trip attacks, but instead only 3 (rogue BAB).  By the rules, a monk should only be able to do 3 touch attacks.Granted, I think that ruling is kind of stupid, in that it means a monk, at least in 3.5, has less attacks than any of the other "warrior" classes, and it means that a monk only excels at "punching alot"... which as we all know is NOT what a monk excels at. Of course, using outside sources for feats, you can bypass this (check out Oriental Adventures. They have feats in there that let you damage with an unarmed strike, THEN immediately get to roll for a successful grapple... no touch attack needed).  In 3.0, monks got 5 attacks by default (so long as they weren't using weapons that coudln't be flurried), and 6 if they chose to use flurry of blows (I think).  Hence, in 3.0 this was never really an issue, because monks were given a totally different, special kind of BAB progression. 3.5 strengthened the usefulness of Flurry of Blows, but also completely nerfed a monks ability, at least towards the later levels, to do other things.I would house rule that a monk may use flurry of blows attack progression for special "attacks" so long as it is within the monk's repoirtore of weaponry.  (ie.- I wouldn't allow a monk to do 5 trip attacks with a 10' reach chain... as that's not within the monk weaponry list... even if they take martial proficiency for it).</blockquote>

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