I was wondering what the DM Team and Community thought of the idea of allowing Staffs to be used as a light weapon for Weapons finesse? Really not sure if the staff weapon is hard coded or if it would give a huge advantage game wise, but the thought of a Monk with a staff, i see it being used with finesse, not brute strength, its not a club. Weight wise i see no issue, magically a thumb width staff would do the trick. Then another question arises, should you have to have the feats to duel wield a staff to try and balance back? Just really curious what you all thought about this.

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Deacon Lott-Merchant

That stuff is hard coded I am afraid. So hak work.

Also I am pretty much not for doing this anyway. Monks already have other weapon finesse choices and I think the one strength weapon they have adds a lot of diversity.

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Levexal
Techsmith Tokas Tokersun - http://amiaworld.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=88661

Balancewise, this is a bad move, really.

Unarmed-monks are already behind the 8-ball, so-to-speak with being very mechanically inferior. Making staves finessable means giving monks an option so much better than using monk gloves (warforged staves are +2d8 dmg, keen, mass crit +2d10, vs monk gloves, +6 ab, non-keenable, +2d6 ignorable dmg) that unarmed monks would be a stupid choice to even bother with in comparison.

Unarmed monks still don't have a "comparable" epic weapon to make them meaningfully competitive and warforged staves are the best "generic" weapons in the game, bonus-wise.

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Rashad the Azure, Zakharan Merchant-lord Most Fair and Master of the Desert Wind
Loremaster Tukson Devers, Oghmanyte Wrestler of Knowledge and Child of the Passive Voice

(No tells for Rashad while I'm playing other characters please.)

Kamas.

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Levexal
Techsmith Tokas Tokersun - http://amiaworld.net/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=88661

I'm not for it on the grounds of niche-hogging: Qstaff for STR, Kamas for dex, and STr for either (+wis for unarmed stunning fist stuff) seems like nice things to go off of, and I'm not keen on making Dex even better than it already is, honestly.

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Davion Telemos - Monk of the Four Winds
Korthan Isharnos - Dragon Shaman of Thunder Spirit Zamasham