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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Deset Gled" data-source="post: 2031017" data-attributes="member: 7808">A few of my favorite FAQ rulings, not counting the two-handed weapon BS:FAQ Ruling: The rules don’t come right out and say that a monk can’t use an unarmed strike for an off-hand strike (although the exact wording of the unarmed strike ability suggests otherwise), and no compelling reason why a monk could not do so exists. When using an unarmed strike as an off-hand attack, the monk suffers all the usual attack penalties from two-weapon fighting (see Table 8–10 in the Player’s Handbook) and the monk addsonly half her Strength bonus (if any) to damage if the off-hand unarmed strike hits.The SRD states "There is no such thing as an off-hand attack for a monk striking unarmed."  Seems pretty clear and un-suggestive to me.FAQ Ruling: How many Hit Dice does my 1st-level pixie rogue have? What would his effective character level be? Unless noted otherwise, all 1-HD creatures (other than 1-HD humanoids) lose their racial HD when they gain class levels. Thus, your pixie would have 1 Hit Dice: one from his race, and one from his class level.This one contradicts itself, due to lack of proofreading.  It's worth noting that when this clause originally appeared, it was ruled a pixe rouge had a minimum of 2 HD (which is just plain wrong).  A flurry of people having issues with it (a number of them from ENWorld) got it changed.FAQ Ruling:  The rules don’t state what type of action is required to switch hands on aweapon, but it seems reasonable to assume that it’s the equivalent of drawing a weapon (a move action that doesn’t provoke attacks of opportunity).This one was contricted both before and after being published by the 3.0 FAQ and RotG articles.  Goes to show that there is absolutely no consensus on the topic within WotC.The bottom line?  The FAQ is just as messed up as everything else WotC publishes as "aids" to D+D players.  Lack of thought, colaboration, common sense, and understanding of the rules run rampant in it.  The FAQ is not official errata.  No way, no how.  And only official errata trumps the PHB.  The FAQ, the RotG articles, Sage Advice, Monte Cook's website, and anything else you can think of are also not official errata.  Feel free to argue intent, playability, balance, or whatever else you want.  But in the case of FAQ vs PHB, PHB wins.</blockquote>

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