FotF unarmed strike progression

[liquidformat]

Hi all, so I am barb 2/unarmed swordsage 3 and just gained my first level of Fist of the Forest, should my unarmed strike damage go from 1d6 to 1d8 or to 1d10, since it was already 1d6?

[ChaosStar]

Hi all, so I am barb 2/unarmed swordsage 3 and just gained my first level of Fist of the Forest, should my unarmed strike damage go from 1d6 to 1d8 or to 1d10, since it was already 1d6?

If you were only dealing 1d6 then it increases to 1d8. It only goes up further if you already did 1d8 damage with Unarmed Strikes, or get 3rd level of Fist of the Forest.

[Drelua]

Yeah, FotF only interacts with your preexisting unarmed damage if you already did "this amount of damage," so d8 at 1st level. Might be worth taking a fourth unarmed swordsage level first, get your damage up to a d8 before taking FotF, and it'll go up to d10 at FotF 1 and 2d6 at FotF 3.