Warbringer
Explorer
I'd do light club 1-handed, 1d4, using the nunchaku to stoke with 1 hand, or 2d4 2handed using them in classic perceived use, switching from hand to hand
D&D 5E Weapons: Nunchuku
It's really simple.
A martial nunchaku is a flail. This weapon was made for combat. A monk cannot use it in Martial Arts.
A simple numchaku is a club. This weapon was probably an improvised weapon, a lighter version of the above, or a grain or bean thresher. A monk can use it in Martial Arts.
A martial nunchaku is a flail. This weapon was made for combat. A monk cannot use it in Martial Arts.
A simple numchaku is a club. This weapon was probably an improvised weapon, a lighter version of the above, or a grain or bean thresher. A monk can use it in Martial Arts.
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Shadowdweller00
Adventurer
Yeah...I personally wouldn't hold any sort of nunchaku as being equivalent to a flail. The physical properties of the two weapons have some notable divergences - while admittedly there really isn't much of a consistent standard or historical record for either, the center of mass of the nunchaku is much closer to the wielder than is that of the flail and the area of impact tends to be larger; which would result in a very considerably less powerful strike. I can't find any indication that nunchaku were ever used as a battlefield weapon. They seem mostly to have found use as something cheap and easily carried that could outrange a knife.
For the monk it's kinda irrelevant what weapon they actually wield, and past level 11 it doesn't really matter at all. You use your Martial Arts die for damage, your attacks are magical, and there are very few monsters for whom the distinction between bludgeoning/piercing/slashing is relevant. So just use the stats of a mace of disruption and call it whatever you want (nunchaku, tekko, iron fan, vajra, etc).
MechaTarrasque
Hero
Don't forget the special property that the user has to spend one round making a spectacle of themselves with the chucks before being able to make an attack......
And if you role a 1, you suffer a self inflicted low blow. On the plus side, if you are fighting a humanoid (or humanoidish monstrocity/fiend/celestial), he will make his next attack against you with disadvantage from wincing in sympathy (or she will be laughing really hard at your humorous collapse and whimpering).
Just kidding (mostly). Has anyone actually ever seen a bad kung fu movie where someone just uses the chucks without putting on some kind of show first?
And if you role a 1, you suffer a self inflicted low blow. On the plus side, if you are fighting a humanoid (or humanoidish monstrocity/fiend/celestial), he will make his next attack against you with disadvantage from wincing in sympathy (or she will be laughing really hard at your humorous collapse and whimpering).
Just kidding (mostly). Has anyone actually ever seen a bad kung fu movie where someone just uses the chucks without putting on some kind of show first?
Gabriel Pendragon
First Post
The PBH says specifically that chucks are clubs.
