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Selfless_Id

04-01-07, 01:27 AM
I'm hoping next week's article covers this.

In this situation assume the Improved Disarm feat has been obtained.

The Disarm combat option states that if you engage the atempt while using a light weapon (ie unarmed attack) you take a -4 to your roll. But to me it seems a tad strange that a monk would be privy to such a penalty. Granted the outcome of a successful disarm is STRONGLY in the favour of the monk. It just seems strange that something that is considered a natural weapon be penalized during such an action. I know that Imp Disarm effectively negates the penalty but its still a negative effect due to the fact that any other non-light weapon would get a +4 relative to any light weapon. Thoughts? References?
ClementWillowbreaker

04-01-07, 12:50 PM
Use a quarterstaff. Nunchaku give +2 to disarm as well, negative half the penalty they suffer for being light.