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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 6769156" data-attributes="member: 6790260">&quot;You gain the following benefits when you are unarmed or wielding only monk weapons and you aren't wearing armor or wielding a shield:...You can roll a d4 in place of the normal damage of your unarmed strike or monk weapon. This die changes as you gain Monk levels, as shown in the Martial Arts column of the Monk table.&quot;Monk weapons are defined as &quot;shortswords, and any simple melee weapons that don't have the heavy or two-handed property.&quot; (Currently, this means all simple weapons except the greatclub; there are no simple melee weapons with the heavy property.)The bonus attack you get is another, separate benefit provided by this feature (Martial Arts). The second sentence quoted above (from PHB p. 78) clearly states you can use the d4 etc. in place of a monk weapon's &quot;normal&quot; damage. Of course, for the shortsword, you don't get any benefit until level 11 (when the die rises to d8).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 6769156, member: 6790260"] "You gain the following benefits when you are unarmed or wielding only monk weapons and you aren't wearing armor or wielding a shield: ... You can roll a d4 in place of the normal damage of your unarmed strike or monk weapon. This die changes as you gain Monk levels, as shown in the Martial Arts column of the Monk table." Monk weapons are defined as "shortswords, and any simple melee weapons that don't have the heavy or two-handed property." (Currently, this means all simple weapons except the greatclub; there are no simple melee weapons with the heavy property.) The bonus attack you get is another, separate benefit provided by this feature (Martial Arts). The second sentence quoted above (from PHB p. 78) clearly states you can use the d4 etc. in place of a monk weapon's "normal" damage. Of course, for the shortsword, you don't get any benefit until level 11 (when the die rises to d8). [/QUOTE]

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