Multiclass Monk Unarmed BAB.

[Draxus the Tainted]

If my DM allows me to freely multiclass between Monk and Fighter, would the BAB for unarmed strike go up like it normally would as if it were normal BAB when you multiclass, or would the unarmed BAB only go up with other monk levels? Someone please explain this to me, I can't find anything in the books about this. Thanks!

 

[Stalker0]

Let's say you have a 6th level monk/5th level fighter

By the book, you can take your attacks one of two ways.

You can use your unarmed BAB, and your unarmed iterative attacks.

That would be +4/+1.

You use your full BAB, and use the standard -5 on iteraive attacks.
+9/+4.


Some allow it to be your full BAB with your unarmed interative attacks, but that's a house rule.

 

[Thain]

Yes, by the rules you have to use one or the other. My party house ruled this out of the game almost immediately... Actually, we had played for nearly four months before we found out we were doing it wrong we had just allowed any one with monk levels to calculate their iteritive unarmed attacks at -3.

Sean K Reynolds has a good explaination aboutWhy Monk Base Attack Bonus Should Stack He pretty much sums up all the arguements for and agianst, and IMHO more or less shreds the critics.

 

[Stalker0]

I don't think the problem occurs when you multiclass as a fighter, its when you multiclass as some of the other classes.

1) Rogue: Sneak attacks on all unarmed strikes, ouch!!

2) Paladin: Saves throws go through the roof.

3) Barbarian. This one requires an alignment change, but its legal by the book, so add that rage bonus to all those unarmed strikes.


When you start thinking of what a monk's power can do in the hands of other classes, I can see why WOTC decided to keep the unarmed attack power only with the monk.