So I've been looking through Monk stuff for many years. Thinking about things and how people view them but I just realized something. Dedicated weapon says "And" not "or" when talking about properties a weapon can't have. Where everywhere else says "or". Can a Monk make a heavy Crossbow or a Glaive a monk weapon. I know the general consensus is no but looking at this RAW they don't have both properties. In fact no weapon has both properties. I even looked in the errata and there is nothing for it.
Am I crazy or has the consensus about what Dedicated Weapon applies to been wrong?
The consensus is correct. As you pointed out there are no weapons with both the Special and Heavy properties so the restrictions would be useless. It would be better if they changed the wording to Or, maybe in the 2024 updates.
A Monk's Dedicated Weapon must lack the heavy and special properties. I don't think it means that if a weapon only lack one of them it can't be one; more like an enumeration of all the properties that must be lacking to make a weapon eligible..
So I've been looking through Monk stuff for many years. Thinking about things and how people view them but I just realized something. Dedicated weapon says "And" not "or" when talking about properties a weapon can't have. Where everywhere else says "or". Can a Monk make a heavy Crossbow or a Glaive a monk weapon. I know the general consensus is no but looking at this RAW they don't have both properties. In fact no weapon has both properties. I even looked in the errata and there is nothing for it.
Am I crazy or has the consensus about what Dedicated Weapon applies to been wrong?
I'm confused. What is a Dedicated Weapon? Is that in the PHB? If you are trying to change how you can use weapons you can multiclass and/or change races. Otherwise the rules say you can use any weapons:
which are shortswords and any simple melee weapons that don’t have the two-handed or heavy property.
So I've been looking through Monk stuff for many years. Thinking about things and how people view them but I just realized something. Dedicated weapon says "And" not "or" when talking about properties a weapon can't have. Where everywhere else says "or". Can a Monk make a heavy Crossbow or a Glaive a monk weapon. I know the general consensus is no but looking at this RAW they don't have both properties. In fact no weapon has both properties. I even looked in the errata and there is nothing for it.
Am I crazy or has the consensus about what Dedicated Weapon applies to been wrong?
The consensus is correct. As you pointed out there are no weapons with both the Special and Heavy properties so the restrictions would be useless. It would be better if they changed the wording to Or, maybe in the 2024 updates.
A Monk's Dedicated Weapon must lack the heavy and special properties. I don't think it means that if a weapon only lack one of them it can't be one; more like an enumeration of all the properties that must be lacking to make a weapon eligible..
I'm confused. What is a Dedicated Weapon? Is that in the PHB? If you are trying to change how you can use weapons you can multiclass and/or change races. Otherwise the rules say you can use any weapons:
which are shortswords and any simple
melee weapons that don’t have the two-handed or
heavy property.
Dedicated Weapon is an optional class feature for Monks introduced in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything. - https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/tcoe/monk#DedicatedWeapon