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Sorath 06-25-07, 02:12 PM	A 4th level drunken master has the class ability to use improvised weapons with reach equal to their length. If I were using a 10 foot ladder as my improvised weapon, then I would have a weapon with 10 feet of reach. According to the rule for improvised weapons, it adds damage dice to my unarmed strike damage. So my question is this: Since my use of improvised weapons adds damage to my unarmed strike, and I can trip opponents with unarmed strikes, can I then use the 10 foot ladder to trip opponents? The attack rolls are then based on my unarmed strike, correct? And am I also able to use my flurry ability with the improvised weapons? Thanks for any advice or opinions.
Chaos90 06-25-07, 05:38 PM	This is a pretty hard question, but i'll atempt to answer it: 1. One way you can see it is the improvised weapon dealing damage equal to his unarmed strike +1d4 points, and it this case it wouldnt really count as his unarmed strike, and therefore you couldnt trip or flurry with it. EDIT: On second thought, I think that you could do trips with the improvised weapons, since technically they are weapons... So the normal rules for tripping would still apply in that case. Also, on a third thought, you could consider the improvised weapons as special monk weapons(because the drunken master "specializes" in them, I think CW says something along those lines), and therefore, you could still flurry with them too 2. But I would rule against that probably, mainly because the intent of most monk classes is that you get to improve your abilities from your monk levels(and even the drunken master improves his monk abilities, just in a wierd way). And since your improvised weapons are effectively supposed to be your unarmed damage progression, you could say that they work like your normal unarmed strikes. So by RAW, I think it would not work, but the class as intended would be able to.