Soranar
2023-03-28, 05:26 AM
Like many others, I've tried to make a half decent throwing build for a while but I couldn't find a good way to do it short of just using a bloodstorm blade and calling it a day.
Then I read the following description of an arrow
An arrow used as a melee weapon is treated as a light improvised weapon
and it finally clicked.
A drunken master's improvised weapon deals as much damage as his unarmed strike plus an extra 1d4 points.
So you can draw arrows (or bolts) as a free action (since it's ammunition), throw them and they deal 1d4 damage + your unarmed damage. Technically bolts are part of a simple weapon so you can even use this as a vow of poverty build.
Obviously the requirements for drunken master are a bit limiting but a psychic rogue gets evasion and you can easily combine that with tashalatora and monastic training.
So a level 19 psychic rogue /Drunken master 1, with tashalatora and monastic training gets
-7d6 base sneak attack
-level 19 monk's unarmed strike
-3 rogue special abilities (which might be needed for feats
now we still have 2 problems : you're not actually proficient with improvised weapons and you can't flurry with them either
enter unorthodox flurry
Choose one light weapon. You become proficient with that weapon and can use it as a special monk weapon.
Since your arrows (or bolts) are a light melee weapon, you are now proficient with it and it's still an improvised weapon
you can even increase your size to get more damage since your unarmed strike damage is improved by becoming larger
Now this is what I came up with for this trick, what would you guys do to improve on this?
Then I read the following description of an arrow
An arrow used as a melee weapon is treated as a light improvised weapon
and it finally clicked.
A drunken master's improvised weapon deals as much damage as his unarmed strike plus an extra 1d4 points.
So you can draw arrows (or bolts) as a free action (since it's ammunition), throw them and they deal 1d4 damage + your unarmed damage. Technically bolts are part of a simple weapon so you can even use this as a vow of poverty build.
Obviously the requirements for drunken master are a bit limiting but a psychic rogue gets evasion and you can easily combine that with tashalatora and monastic training.
So a level 19 psychic rogue /Drunken master 1, with tashalatora and monastic training gets
-7d6 base sneak attack
-level 19 monk's unarmed strike
-3 rogue special abilities (which might be needed for feats
now we still have 2 problems : you're not actually proficient with improvised weapons and you can't flurry with them either
enter unorthodox flurry
Choose one light weapon. You become proficient with that weapon and can use it as a special monk weapon.
Since your arrows (or bolts) are a light melee weapon, you are now proficient with it and it's still an improvised weapon
you can even increase your size to get more damage since your unarmed strike damage is improved by becoming larger
Now this is what I came up with for this trick, what would you guys do to improve on this?