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Okay, so I went over this many moons ago, and got shouted down by
a couple of people, but my examples were pretty poor.
The basic question: going only by the Rules As Written (RAW), can a
monk gain the doubled Power Attack bonus to damage when using Flurry
of Blows and only one end of his staff?
Now, slow down. Don't hit your follow-up button immediately. Please bear
with my argument:
(a) certainly, a monk using Power Attack and the Attack action can
gain the double bonus, since the quarterstaff is a two-handed
weapon when it isn't being used as a double-weapon.
(b) certainly, a ranger using a quarterstaff as a double weapon
won't gain the double bonus, and in fact will fail to gain *any*
Power Attack bonus with the "off-hand" attack(s), since that
counts as a light weapon.
(c) according to the FAQ, a monk can use the quarterstaff as a double-
weapon *in addition* to his using flurry of blows. in this case,
all of the flurry attacks will generally come from the "primary"
end or be unarmed strikes (and gain a single bonus), and the
"off-hand" attacks will come from the "secondary" end (and gain
no power attack bonus, as (b) above).
If all of the statements above are clearly correct, does a monk flurrying
with a quarterstaff *and only using one end* gain the double power attack
bonus, even though he only gains x1 STR bonus instead of x1.5?
If so, can he gain the double bonus using both ends? Neither end is
being treated as a "light" weapon, after all...
Remember, this is all using the RAW (including FAQs and errata).
(the last time I brought this up, the question used a Three-Section Staff
from OA, since it isn't a double-weapon at all; MSB and at least one other
person argued that the x1 STR bonus implied that the weapon wasn't being
used "two-handed", a conclusion I find absurd)
Same question for longstaff (from Complete Adventurer). Jet Li
using such a beast (in the Once Upon a Time in China series, and
Fong Sai Yuk) is *fairly* clearly doing a flurry with a two-handed
monk weapon...
Donald
Okay, so I went over this many moons ago, and got shouted down by
a couple of people, but my examples were pretty poor.
The basic question: going only by the Rules As Written (RAW), can a
monk gain the doubled Power Attack bonus to damage when using Flurry
of Blows and only one end of his staff?
Now, slow down. Don't hit your follow-up button immediately. Please bear
with my argument:
(a) certainly, a monk using Power Attack and the Attack action can
gain the double bonus, since the quarterstaff is a two-handed
weapon when it isn't being used as a double-weapon.
(b) certainly, a ranger using a quarterstaff as a double weapon
won't gain the double bonus, and in fact will fail to gain *any*
Power Attack bonus with the "off-hand" attack(s), since that
counts as a light weapon.
(c) according to the FAQ, a monk can use the quarterstaff as a double-
weapon *in addition* to his using flurry of blows. in this case,
all of the flurry attacks will generally come from the "primary"
end or be unarmed strikes (and gain a single bonus), and the
"off-hand" attacks will come from the "secondary" end (and gain
no power attack bonus, as (b) above).
If all of the statements above are clearly correct, does a monk flurrying
with a quarterstaff *and only using one end* gain the double power attack
bonus, even though he only gains x1 STR bonus instead of x1.5?
If so, can he gain the double bonus using both ends? Neither end is
being treated as a "light" weapon, after all...
Remember, this is all using the RAW (including FAQs and errata).
(the last time I brought this up, the question used a Three-Section Staff
from OA, since it isn't a double-weapon at all; MSB and at least one other
person argued that the x1 STR bonus implied that the weapon wasn't being
used "two-handed", a conclusion I find absurd)
Same question for longstaff (from Complete Adventurer). Jet Li
using such a beast (in the Once Upon a Time in China series, and
Fong Sai Yuk) is *fairly* clearly doing a flurry with a two-handed
monk weapon...
Donald