Would this be unbalancing?

[Nifft]

sunder?

Ooh, I gotta disagree on that one. Martial artists are forever beating up on bricks and inanimate objects. Plus, given that they have honed their bodies to be weapons, it makes sense to me that they would be able to strike at the 'lesser' tools of their opponents.

C'mon, it's not a real martial arts film unless someone breaks someone else's weapon

Sorry for the delay.

Anyway, I think of the OLH as having "Expertise"-type powers, like Trip, so IMHO giving them Improved Disarm would be preferable to giving them Sunder.

Flavor Text for Disarm: "The Monk knows that the threat of a weapon is an illusion; it is the hand which weilds the weapon that is the threat. The Monk knows to attack the hand and break the illusion."

-- Nifft

 

[Capellan]

Anyway, I think of the OLH as having "Expertise"-type powers, like Trip, so IMHO giving them Improved Disarm would be preferable to giving them Sunder.

Flavor Text for Disarm: "The Monk knows that the threat of a weapon is an illusion; it is the hand which weilds the weapon that is the threat. The Monk knows to attack the hand and break the illusion."

That sounds like a pretty good idea, though I like the sunder option as well - for the cool breaking stuff wuxia approach.

Hmm. Maybe give the PC the choice of sundering strike or improved disarm? What would they get instead of Shattering Strike if they took disarm, though?

 

[Nifft]

Projected Grip: The monk may make a ranged touch attack up to 10' away to attempt to disarm an opponent. If the monk chooses to do this, use the monk's Wisdom modifier instead of his Strength modifier for resolving the opposed disarm roll.

-- Nifft

 

[Capellan]

Nifft's suggestions re: a disarming ability have been edited into my original class post. I've called the Improved Disarm ability "Open Hand", to reflect that it only works when unarmed, just as Sundering Strike does, and is not fully equal to the Improved Disarm feat.

 

[Nifft]

You could group the Disarm/Sunder chains into "Distain Arms I" and "Distain Arms II" if you wanted -- that's a little more "conceptually grouped".

-- Nifft