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Originally posted by Gimli:
"Weapon finesse can be made to apply to any weapon at least 1 size category smaller than you. It can also be used on neat weapons with that as a special ability (like the spiked chain if I remember right, which I may not)."
Maybe with a Mod I'm not aware of, but in IWD II, so far as I know, weapon finesse applies only to short blades.
"Thats why its pretty popular with single classed monks with lower strength scores. You can still hit, and your damage is already higher than anybody elses. A monk with 20 dex and Weapon Finesse is very powerful. Keep boosting dex too."
It would be more popular if it actually worked without modifying the game; as it comes, weapon finesse in IWD II does not apply to unarmed combat. And I wouldn't say a low Str Monk, even at high levels, has damage "higher than anybody elses". They get a d20 as base damage - but with a low Str, they get no bonus to damage; their criticals only do 2x damage and only happen on a 20; they don't get any added damage a magic weapon would grant. Also they can't take weapon focus or specialization with fists.
A character with maxed out Str and a magic 2-handed weapon does the most melee damage, by far - it's not even close.
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I'm talking about the pnp version. This was a reply to a previous message suggesting that using weapon finesse on unarmed attacks is up to the DM. Its only up to the DM if he's the type that likes to change the core rules. If he DOES want to, thats fine. Not all the rules make sense. It IS up to the DM in the end however.
lol, in IWD2, a monk with 10 strength does 2-30 damage per hit at level 29-30. A barbarian with an outlandish strength of 36 (with rage etc etc), wielding a Great Sword, deals 1d12+19. Thats more, but only while he has his magic aide to his strength. If the monk had the same bonuses (about 10 points worth or so), his damage would be greater.
Also, no other class can deal a d20 in damage, and in IWD 2, they deal 1d20+1d10. lol, it looks like you failed your 'test'. Whatta crock.
Anyway, I say fug you moderator. I was aided by memy to get this sig to work in the first place (with the coding for it), and he obviously saw it. Perhaps the rules of the board have changes since then (this would have been in the late spring or early summer this year), okay. I would think that he would have far more presence of mind (and he certainly does, more than you could ever hope to have) and have mentioned 'hey, dude, your sig is way too big'. And if the rules of the boards HAVE changed since then, fine, but don't suggest that I'm too fugging stupid to read them when I signed up.
Its funny, you try to suggest that I'm a troll with all the bluntness of a sledge hammer, and yet, you claim that their ARE no trolls on the boards here. I think their may yet be a hole in your logic, friend.
Feel free to delete me, I don't plan on returning here again.