The dart is a simple weapon which count as monk weapons for the martial arts die. But the weapon when equipped is not changing die like the rest of the weapons when the monk martial art die increases in size.
"At 1st level, your practice of martial arts gives you mastery of combat styles that use unarmed strikes and monk weapons, which are shortswords and any simple melee weapons that don’t have the two-handed or heavy property."
Daggers however, being Simple Melee weapons with the throw property, do qualify as Monk weapons and will thus benefit from your martial arts die when thrown.
JECrawford doesn't explicitly say this is the case, but it's what one can interpret from his final response in this SageAdvice exchange.
Daggers however, being Simple Melee weapons with the throw property, do qualify as Monk weapons and will thus benefit from your martial arts die when thrown.
JECrawford doesn't explicitly say this is the case, but it's what one can interpret from his final response in this SageAdvice exchange.
yes, daggers will count as monk weapons even if you throw them, because they are Simple Melee Weapons, regardless of if you throw or stab.
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I house ruled that it does count as Monk Weapon for 3 reasons:
1). It's not game breaking.
2). The Monk's best abilities (Spamming Strike!!) are generally most useful at close range rather than long range.
3). Because it's cool!
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Hey, if you want a dart to change its damage die, just get someone to THROW it at you, reduce the damage to zero as per your Deflect Missile Reaction and throw it back as part of said Reaction. Then you will have it hitting as monk weapon for its damage.
"At 1st level, your practice of martial arts gives you mastery of combat styles that use unarmed strikes and monk weapons, which are shortswords and any simple melee weapons that don’t have the two-handed or heavy property."
Darts are simple ranged weapons.
Then why don't this apply to slings because it increases damage for me?
The dart is a simple weapon which count as monk weapons for the martial arts die. But the weapon when equipped is not changing die like the rest of the weapons when the monk martial art die increases in size.
Simple Melee weapons are Monk Weapons. The Dart is a Ranged weapon, and so does not qualify.
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"At 1st level, your practice of martial arts gives you mastery of combat styles that use unarmed strikes and monk weapons, which are shortswords and any simple melee weapons that don’t have the two-handed or heavy property."
Darts are simple ranged weapons.
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thanks for the good reminder. I guess even old dogs need to double check wording at times.
Daggers however, being Simple Melee weapons with the throw property, do qualify as Monk weapons and will thus benefit from your martial arts die when thrown.
JECrawford doesn't explicitly say this is the case, but it's what one can interpret from his final response in this SageAdvice exchange.
yes, daggers will count as monk weapons even if you throw them, because they are Simple Melee Weapons, regardless of if you throw or stab.
Formerly Devan Avalon.
Trying to get your physical content on Beyond is like going to Microsoft and saying "I have a physical Playstation disk, give me a digital Xbox version!"
I house ruled that it does count as Monk Weapon for 3 reasons:
1). It's not game breaking.
2). The Monk's best abilities (Spamming Strike!!) are generally most useful at close range rather than long range.
3). Because it's cool!
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Hey, if you want a dart to change its damage die, just get someone to THROW it at you, reduce the damage to zero as per your Deflect Missile Reaction and throw it back as part of said Reaction. Then you will have it hitting as monk weapon for its damage.
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Then why don't this apply to slings because it increases damage for me?
It shouldn't. Link your character sheet so we can see if something else is going on.
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