Two-Weapon fighting and the Monk

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"The rules don't come right out and say that a monk can't use an unarmed strike for an off-hand strike..."

Except, of course, they actually say, "There is no such thing as an off-hand attack for a monk striking unarmed."

Not taking an actual position at all here... just an observation.
(Well, ok, and opinion too, I think that the rules state that you'd have to be using a weapon for the off hand attack. Of course, they don't state that an unarmed attack isn't a weapon... but that's circular arguing.)

The rules DO say that there's no such thing as an off-hand attack for a monk striking unarmed. And they also say that if you fire into a melee combat where one of the participants of that combat is friendly, you get a -4...

There's a feat to counter the second, feats are there for the express purpose of altering or adding onto base rules. Therefore a TWF feat creating an off-hand attack seems to fit in perfectly well.