A sohei and his bow


Rules Questions


Hey guys, i just stumpled over something i found rather odd in the sohei description and since i couldnt find any other threads on it, i wanted to hear what your interpretation of the rules is.

For the purpose of this thread lets assume that sohei can actually flyrry with a bow (using all attacks) though it doesnt really matter to this rule point.

Lets look at a sohei wielding a normal longbow doin 1d8 dam. The sohei has 14 str and 16 dex, and at level 6 he picks bows for flurry. As soon as he does this how much damage will his bow give?

is it 1d8 + 1 (weapon training), or 1d8 + 1 (weapon training) + 2 (str)?

The reason for this is the specific wording in flurry of blows that allows monks to do str damage to all weapons used in combination with flurry, and since this is a specific rule then it should overwrite the "no str to damage on regular bows" rule. Just like the sohei doesnt recieve 1.5 str damage when using 2 handed weapons in his flurry.

Now lets take it one step better, if this would work on a bow, then he should also be able to make it work with a crossbow right ? Just thinking that this fact alone might make the sohei the best crossbow man in the game, assuming it works ofc.

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