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Message: <blockquote data-quote="maldonuich" data-source="post: 1799506" data-attributes="member: 25041">Taking into account the latest FAQ:"Can a monk fight with two weapons? Can she combinea two-weapon attack with a flurry of blows? What are herpenalties on attack rolls?A monk can fight with two weapons just like any othercharacter, but she must accept the normal penalties on herattack rolls to do so. She can use an unarmed strike as an offhandweapon. She can even combine two-weapon fighting witha flurry of blows to gain an extra attack with her off hand (butremember that she can use only unarmed strikes or specialmonk weapons as part of the flurry). The penalties for twoweaponfighting stack with the penalties for flurry of blows.For example, at 6th level, the monk Ember can normallymake one attack per round at a +4 bonus. When using flurry ofblows, she may make two attacks (using unarmed strikes or anyspecial monk weapons she holds), each at a +3 bonus. If shewants to make an extra attack with her off hand, she has toaccept a –4 penalty on her primary hand attacks and a –8penalty on her off-hand attacks (assuming she wields a lightweapon in her off hand).If Ember has Two-Weapon Fighting, she has to accept onlya –2 penalty on all attacks to make an extra attack with her offhand. Thus, when wielding a light weapon in her off handduring a flurry of blows, she can make a total of three attacks,each at a total bonus of +1. At least one of these attacks has tobe with her off-hand weapon.A 20th-level monk with Greater Two-Weapon Fighting canmake eight attacks per round during a flurry of blows.Assuming she wields a light weapon in her off hand, her threeoff-hand weapon attacks are at +13/+8/+3, and she has fiveattacks (at +13/+13/+13/+8/+3) with unarmed strikes or anyweapons she carries in her primary hand. If the same monk alsohas Rapid Shot and throws at least one shuriken as part of herflurry of blows (since Rapid Shot can be used only with rangedattacks), she can throw one additional shuriken with herprimary hand, but all of her attacks (even melee attacks) suffera –2 penalty. Thus, her full attack array looks like this:+11/+11/+11/+11/+6/+1 primary hand (two must be withshuriken) and +11/+6/+1 off hand."My question is:Can a monk only attacking with unarmed strikes make his main attack with an unarmed strike and then a second off-hand attack (applying the rules and penalties for two-weapon fighting) with another unarmed strike?Can the same monk make a flurry of blows using only unarmed strikes and then an extra off-hand attack with an unarmed strike? Reading the FAQ I know that if the monk uses a special monk weapon (for example a sai) as his main weapon he can do off-hand attacks with unarmed strikes or another special weapon in the other hand but I do not know if the same applies if he is attacking only unarmed.</blockquote>

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