I'm currently making a Drunken Master Monk Pirate, and I was wondering if I could use his shortsword using Flurry of Blows or just in terms of the Drunken Master fighting style. This is my first ever Monk character, so I really want to make a cool one
The Flurry of Blows ability specifically states that you need to use your unarmed attacks with that. So at lvl 1 you'd make 1 attack with your shortsword, then use a bonus action to Flurry 2x with unarmed attacks. At lvl 5 you'd get 2x shortsword attacks and 2x unarmed attacks with Flurry as your Bonus action. (emphasis mine)
Flurry of Blows
Immediately after you take the Attack action on your turn, you can spend 1 ki point to make two unarmed strikes as a bonus action.
What Belx said.. except at Level 2 is when you get Flurry of Blows =P
Same applies to Martial Arts attacks though. the Bonus Action Attack has to be an unarmed strike.
As a house rule though, I've definitely allowed for certain PC's to use Daggers and knives in place of unarmed strike for Flurry of Blow, but it's not RAW.
As has been mentioned, you don't get to attack with your monk weapons using either the bonus attack through Martial Arts or the Flurry attacks however the benefit is that you don't have to have free hands in order to make the unarmed attacks. For flavour they're essentially elbow strikes or knees or kicks or some other form of unarmed strike, they just can't be made using the held weapons.
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I'm currently making a Drunken Master Monk Pirate, and I was wondering if I could use his shortsword using Flurry of Blows or just in terms of the Drunken Master fighting style. This is my first ever Monk character, so I really want to make a cool one
The Flurry of Blows ability specifically states that you need to use your unarmed attacks with that. So at lvl 1 you'd make 1 attack with your shortsword, then use a bonus action to Flurry 2x with unarmed attacks. At lvl 5 you'd get 2x shortsword attacks and 2x unarmed attacks with Flurry as your Bonus action. (emphasis mine)
What Belx said.. except at Level 2 is when you get Flurry of Blows =P
Same applies to Martial Arts attacks though. the Bonus Action Attack has to be an unarmed strike.
As a house rule though, I've definitely allowed for certain PC's to use Daggers and knives in place of unarmed strike for Flurry of Blow, but it's not RAW.
As has been mentioned, you don't get to attack with your monk weapons using either the bonus attack through Martial Arts or the Flurry attacks however the benefit is that you don't have to have free hands in order to make the unarmed attacks. For flavour they're essentially elbow strikes or knees or kicks or some other form of unarmed strike, they just can't be made using the held weapons.