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Chained Birds
2013-02-25, 08:02 PM
Unarmed Strike

At 1st level, a monk gains Improved Unarmed Strike as a bonus feat. A monk's attacks may be with fist, elbows, knees, and feet. This means that a monk may make unarmed strikes with his hands full. There is no such thing as an off-hand attack for a monk striking unarmed. A monk may thus apply his full Strength bonus on damage rolls for all his unarmed strikes.

Usually a monk's unarmed strikes deal lethal damage, but he can choose to deal nonlethal damage instead with no penalty on his attack roll. He has the same choice to deal lethal or nonlethal damage while grappling.

A monk's unarmed strike is treated as both a manufactured weapon and a natural weapon for the purpose of spells and effects that enhance or improve either manufactured weapons or natural weapons.


Masterwork Transformation

You convert a non-masterwork item into its masterwork equivalent. A normal sword becomes a masterwork sword, a suit of leather armor becomes a masterwork suit of leather armor, a set of thieves’ tools becomes masterwork thieves’ tools, and so on. If the target object has no masterwork equivalent, the spell has no effect. You can affect 50 pieces of ammunition as if they were one weapon. You decide if the object’s appearance changes to reflect this improved quality.

The material component for the spell is magical reagents worth the cost difference between a normal item and the equivalent masterwork item (typically 300 gp for a weapon, 150 gp for armor, or 50 gp for a tool). If an object has multiple masterwork options (such as a double weapon, or a spiked shield that could be made masterwork as a weapon or armor), you choose one option of the object to affect (though you can cast the spell again to affect another option).

So, does this work?

Psyren
2013-02-25, 08:13 PM
The spell says:

"If the target object has no masterwork equivalent, the spell has no effect."

If you can find a masterwork unarmed strike anywhere else other than this spell, then yes it would. If not, no.

Alienist
2013-02-25, 08:19 PM
Isn't that just the equivalent of getting a manicure?

Chained Birds
2013-02-25, 08:22 PM
The spell says:

"If the target object has no masterwork equivalent, the spell has no effect."

If you can find a masterwork unarmed strike anywhere else other than this spell, then yes it would. If not, no.

I noticed that part... But why don't we omit that part until a Masterworked Unarmed Strike is found in the d&d universe.

What would be the benefits from having a Masterwork Monk?

Gildedragon
2013-02-25, 08:23 PM
+1 to hit. Making the effective penalty of FoB only -1

SamBurke
2013-02-25, 08:26 PM
Isn't that just the equivalent of getting a manicure?

This is an awesome way to do this.

Sadly, Psyren may have a point.

Other than that point, it does work, though. I'd say that you gain +1 Attack and such, just as with a +1 Weapon.

Baroncognito
2013-02-25, 09:11 PM
Isn't that just the equivalent of getting a manicure?

No, because a Monk's unarmed attack are not necessarily just her fists.

It'd be the equivalent of getting a whole spa treatment.

avr
2013-02-25, 11:57 PM
Huh. You've found a way to make a monk worth 300 GP.

But yes, if a monk can have Magic Weapon cast on them (and they can) then they can logically have this spell cast on them.

Psyren
2013-02-26, 12:20 AM
But yes, if a monk can have Magic Weapon cast on them (and they can) then they can logically have this spell cast on them.

The Magic Weapon spell doesn't say "melee weapon" like the Masterwork Weapon spell does. (Indeed, it can be used on projectiles/ranged weapons as well, so it couldn't.) So this analogy doesn't work.

Also, a monk's unarmed strike is a specific exception to MW - MT contains no such exception.

Alienist
2013-02-26, 05:46 AM
Huh. You've found a way to make a monk worth 300 GP.


Harsh. But fair.

Chained Birds
2013-02-26, 09:34 AM
What about (Taking something from 3.5 unless there is an official PF conversion of them) Warforged?