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What does a cestus do for a monk? From the APG:
Benefit: While wearing a cestus, you are considered armed and your unarmed attacks deal normal damage. If you are proficient with a cestus, your unarmed strikes may deal bludgeoning or piercing damage. Monks are proficient with the cestus.
Drawback: When using a cestus, your fingers are mostly exposed, allowing you to wield or carry items in that hand, but the constriction of the weapon at your knuckles gives you a –2 penalty on all precision-based tasks involving that hand (such as opening locks).
My guess is that a level 1 monk with a cestus may choose to do either:
A. Use the cestus as a weapon for d4 damage with crits at 19-20/x2
B. Use unarmed attacks, and the cestus allows the unarmed attack to do their standard damage dice of D6, but with the ability to count as piercing.
Questions 1: Is that right?
Question 2: Does a monk with a cestus doing unarmed damage get his critical threat improved to 19-20/x2 from using the cestus?
Question 3: Does a cestus made with adamantium allow the monk's unarmed attacks to count as adamantium for overcoming DR?
Question 4: If the cestus is enchanted, do the monk's unarmed attacks get the enhancement bonus?
Question 5: Since the hand may hold something, would a monk with a cestus on both hands still have free hands for Crane Style?
Thanks!