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<blockquote data-quote="Paraxis" data-source="post: 6541439" data-attributes="member: 13009"><p>During a session go with your gut ruling and just play, stopping for excessive amounts of time or multiple times in a session to look up rules slows down play, destroys any sense of immersion, and isn't very fun.</p><p>Make a note of any rule you want to look up later, and explain that DM's are allowed to change previous rulings and judgement calls, it happens all the time.</p><p></p><p>Saying that, players throwing fits is way worse. If you act like are 5 years old, you can't play at my table, unless you are 5 and I invited you because some 5 year olds are cool. (Read in a loving father way, not a creepy stranger way, my son started playing D&D around 6 when he first showed interest in what his dad was doing.)</p><p></p><p>As to the rule.</p><p></p><p>This is one of those weird, they didn't use the right language in the books things IMO.</p><p></p><p>A dart is not a melee weapon so it is not a monk weapon, simply being proficient doesn't make something a monk weapon or short bows would be monk weapons.</p><p></p><p>The normal bonus action attack under martial arts ability says, <em>"When you use the attack action with an unarmed strike or monk weapon, on your turn, you may make one unarmed strike as a bonus action.</em>" </p><p></p><p>Throwing a dart as your attack action is not an attack with a monk weapon.</p><p></p><p>Throwing a dagger would be, so if you refluff something as a shuriken I would refluff a dagger.</p><p></p><p>KI point usage, Flurry of blows. "<em>Immediately after you take the Attack action on your turn, you can spend 1 ki point to make two unarmed strikes as a bonus action.</em>"</p><p></p><p>Flurry of blows doesn't limit your attacks you take with the Attack action to monk only weapons, an elf monk for example could fire a long bow, move up to an enemy, and unarmed strike twice.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: wanted to add my opinion of the rule, I would ignore the "monk weapon" requirement on the martial arts bonus action attack, just like flurry of blows already does. There should be no difference between throwing a dart and throwing a dagger, if you multiclass rogue daggers & short swords can already be used to sneak attack and are both already monk weapons, if you multiclass and get a two handed sword it is upping a single attack from a d8 (using the staff or spear 2-handed) to 2d6 for the great sword not that big a deal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Paraxis, post: 6541439, member: 13009"] During a session go with your gut ruling and just play, stopping for excessive amounts of time or multiple times in a session to look up rules slows down play, destroys any sense of immersion, and isn't very fun. Make a note of any rule you want to look up later, and explain that DM's are allowed to change previous rulings and judgement calls, it happens all the time. Saying that, players throwing fits is way worse. If you act like are 5 years old, you can't play at my table, unless you are 5 and I invited you because some 5 year olds are cool. (Read in a loving father way, not a creepy stranger way, my son started playing D&D around 6 when he first showed interest in what his dad was doing.) As to the rule. This is one of those weird, they didn't use the right language in the books things IMO. A dart is not a melee weapon so it is not a monk weapon, simply being proficient doesn't make something a monk weapon or short bows would be monk weapons. The normal bonus action attack under martial arts ability says, [I]"When you use the attack action with an unarmed strike or monk weapon, on your turn, you may make one unarmed strike as a bonus action.[/I]" Throwing a dart as your attack action is not an attack with a monk weapon. Throwing a dagger would be, so if you refluff something as a shuriken I would refluff a dagger. KI point usage, Flurry of blows. "[I]Immediately after you take the Attack action on your turn, you can spend 1 ki point to make two unarmed strikes as a bonus action.[/I]" Flurry of blows doesn't limit your attacks you take with the Attack action to monk only weapons, an elf monk for example could fire a long bow, move up to an enemy, and unarmed strike twice. EDIT: wanted to add my opinion of the rule, I would ignore the "monk weapon" requirement on the martial arts bonus action attack, just like flurry of blows already does. There should be no difference between throwing a dart and throwing a dagger, if you multiclass rogue daggers & short swords can already be used to sneak attack and are both already monk weapons, if you multiclass and get a two handed sword it is upping a single attack from a d8 (using the staff or spear 2-handed) to 2d6 for the great sword not that big a deal. [/QUOTE]
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