Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
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Can you use the vampiric bite as an unarmed strike for the monk multiattack? My DM is open to it.
Vampiric bite:
Your fanged bite is a natural weapon, which counts as a simple melee weapon with which you are proficient. You add your Constitution modifier, instead of your Strength modifier, to the attack and damage rolls when you attack with this bite. It deals 1d4 piercing damage on a hit. While you are missing half or more of your hit points, you have advantage on attack rolls you make with this bite.
When you attack with this bite and hit a creature that isn’t a Construct or an Undead, you can empower yourself in one of the following ways of your choice:
You can empower yourself with this bite a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Genius with a god complex...
Get the joke?
Bites, claws, horns etc are natural weapons, not unarmed strikes. An unarmed strike, per the glossary, is a punch, kick, headbutt etc.
Exceptions to the general rules, are specific rules such as the Alter Self, spell.
From what I read
General Rule can use DEX instead of CON for Attack roll
Specific Rule Damage mod is CON
So from 24 (ish) ABoH Dhamphir you can replace an unarmed strike with a bite. Fair play. That does not however make a bite a monk weapon so it stays classified as an unarmed strike.
However the 2024 Monk says under it's martial arts features that;
Bonus fries then it stacks with Monks martial arts and the damage scales as you level up. There must be some gothic style of martial arts that emphasises bites instead of elbows or leg sweeps maybe.
And as a RP type thing, you can bite to heal, especially when the victim is asleep and unsuspecting/unwilling ... just acting the part like a real bloodsucker I guess.
Dress like Elvis and say "FANG you very much" after biting victims?
Life's hard - get a helmet!
Trying to build a 5.5 Monk with the 5.5 Dhampir rules on D&DBeyond, when checking the Vampiric Bite Action D&DBeyond uses the Martial Art die and even uses Dex mod for damage :
What was the characters total CON/DEX at the level shown?
Monk level 1, 16 Dex (+3), 8 everywhere else (-1)