Weapon Adept and the Temple Sword


Rules Questions


Hi guys. I'm reworking my monk whose level 1, after using a pre-gen in my first society game. Looking over the archtypes for monks, I saw the weapon adept.

"Perfect," I thought. "I want my monk to be a master of his temple sword, flurry blowing left and right." Then it said you get perfect strike, and I saw it read,

When wielding a monk weapon, your attacks can be extremely precise.

Yay so far. Then I read the mechanics.

The rules wrote:
You must use one of the following weapons to make the attack: kama, nunchaku, quarterstaff, sai, and siangham.

Now this made me sad, cause even though the temple sword is a monk weapon, it's not listed there as usable with the feat. Was perfect strike written before there was a trait called Monk weapon? Or is my dream of having a weapon adept, temple sword swinging monk, just another fantasy?


Pathfinder Maps, Starfinder Maps Subscriber

Sadly, the feat doesn't work with temple sword. Weapon Adepts, the Perfect Strike feat, and the temple sword came out in the same book, and the monk weapon trait has been around since the core rulebook. There is no PFS-specific adjustment to the feat, so sadly you're out of luck.

Sovereign Court

In this instance, if the rules read that you must use those specific weapons, then you are indeed limited to that list.

And "Monk Weapon" is a mechanic straight from the Core Rulebook.

You can still use a Temple Sword in regular combat, just not while using this Feat.

Scarab Sages

Perfect strike is limited to the specific weapons listed in the feat, or a bow if you are a Zen Archer. It's perfectly reasonable to allow it to work with other monk weapons as a house rule, but for PFS you are stuck with the limited list.


Imbicatus wrote:

Perfect strike is limited to the specific weapons listed in the feat, or a bow if you are a Zen Archer. It's perfectly reasonable to allow it to work with other monk weapons as a house rule, but for PFS you are stuck with the limited list.

Dang. That's unfortunate, but I'll just go with my monk without that archetype then. I might go with a whole new concept-Spirit master looks fun, and is legal.

Thanks for your help guys.

Scarab Sages

If you want to keep the weapon based feel, Sohei or Martial Artist both work great. Sohei's weapon training more than makes up for the lack of specialization, and Martial Artist can take fighter only feats with any monk weapon.

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