like unarmed strikes not counting as weapon attacks
Unarmed strikes are weapon attacks, they are just not made with a finesse weapon. Also, they have to be weapon attacks, since there are only two types of attacks in the game, weapon or spell attacks
By RAW, it does not make them a finesse weapon. I desperately wanted to find a way to sneak-attack with a Quarterstaff for my one-shot high level Thief to stab people with the Staff of the Magi, but by RAW it does not assign the “finesse” trait to those weapons.
I would let my players do it as a DM because it makes sense and is flavorful, and by multiclassing like that you’re diluting your Sneak Attack in any case, but that’s me.
No. I don't think it is a problem to allow it, in fact I think it is super cool, but no, monks using DEX with unarmed strikes does nothing to make them count as finesse
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u/0c4rt0l4 Rules Lawyer Mar 17 '23
Unarmed strikes are weapon attacks, they are just not made with a finesse weapon. Also, they have to be weapon attacks, since there are only two types of attacks in the game, weapon or spell attacks