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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cabral" data-source="post: 2801312" data-attributes="member: 1193">No it doesn't. It is an effect that targets the target of the unarmed strike which is triggered by the hitting with a natural weapon. The language of the Unarmed Strike ability is so that monks can use either Magic Weapon or Magic Fang.No. It says it can be treated as a natural weapon or a manufactured weapon for spells and effects that improve one or the other. In no other way is it to be treated as a natural weapon. If a spell negatively affects a target's natural weapons, it does not work on a monk's unarmed strike. The unarmed strike is not a natural weapon. It can be enhanced as if it were one, that's it.The list lists the most common. If the unarmed strike was intended to be a natural weapon, the simplest thing would be to call it a slam. The class feature explicitly calls out its ability to be enhanced by either Magic Weapon or Magic Fang (Although if you play eberron, a question of whether or not Artificer infusions work on non-construct monks <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />)Sorry, it just doesn't work. The language is very precise and does not allow for it. By contrast, if the Energy Drain was an effect that charged a natural weapon with negative energy, then it would work.Instead, it inflicts 2 negative levels on a creature struck by the Vampire's natural weapons and Unarmed Strikes are not natural weapons. This may be intuitively/conceptual wrong, but as far as the rules language is concerned, it is correct.As a side note, natural weapons are not monk weapons and cannot flurry with natural weapons.Also note:If a monk's unarmed strike was a natural weapon, he'd get one attack per round.</blockquote>

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