Caphi
2010-07-16, 12:03 PM
At first blush, it seems like it's supported. Unarmed strike is a Tiger Claw weapon, and Snap Kick uses unarmed damage. Begin the crazy Street Fighter comboing action, right?
Well, I tried making one. You run into a paradox pretty quickly.
See, RAW, the unarmed strike is just one big weapon, but comboing with TC is based on two-weapon fighting. Wolf fang strike has an specific exception built into it for this situation. Wild mongoose and raging mongoose appear to just not work; you only get one and two attacks, not two and four like the guy with two kukhris is doing.
Or you can pretend there are two weapons in there, which, in addition to forcing you to basically play a boxer, which is not what I'm interested in, raises the question of what happens to "generic" unarmed strikes like the one granted by Snap Kick, especially if your "weapons" are enhanced. So now you're back to the same drawbacks as the guy with TWF shortswords, wondering why you bothered with the whole IUS/SUS/losing light armor proficiency dance in the first place.
Is there any elegant way to do this? Or is unarmed swordsage just incompatible with half of the one discipline designed to let you be a monk that doesn't suck?
Well, I tried making one. You run into a paradox pretty quickly.
See, RAW, the unarmed strike is just one big weapon, but comboing with TC is based on two-weapon fighting. Wolf fang strike has an specific exception built into it for this situation. Wild mongoose and raging mongoose appear to just not work; you only get one and two attacks, not two and four like the guy with two kukhris is doing.
Or you can pretend there are two weapons in there, which, in addition to forcing you to basically play a boxer, which is not what I'm interested in, raises the question of what happens to "generic" unarmed strikes like the one granted by Snap Kick, especially if your "weapons" are enhanced. So now you're back to the same drawbacks as the guy with TWF shortswords, wondering why you bothered with the whole IUS/SUS/losing light armor proficiency dance in the first place.
Is there any elegant way to do this? Or is unarmed swordsage just incompatible with half of the one discipline designed to let you be a monk that doesn't suck?