| McaPhoo |
None of the circus weapons in The Show Must Go On have the Monk trait, but I feel like it would be reasonable for them to have it. Would it cause any balance issues if I made them monk weapons?
I'm about to start the AP, and one of my players is interested in the fire poi as a monk weapon. Another issue is that fire poi is an advanced weapon, which Monks don't get proficiency in. I'm still relatively new to the game, but I think that if he takes the Weapon Proficiency General feat at level 3 and 7, he can become trained in the fire poi. I'm not sure how he would get expert or master. The Monastic Weaponry Monk increases proficiencies to expert or master, but it's unclear to me if that applies to all weapons with the Monk trait, or if that only applies to simple and martial weapons with the monk trait. I guess all the weapons with the monk trait RAW are simple or martial so there is no discrepancy, unless I made fire poi a monk weapon.
Does anyone have any thoughts on this? Would it take too many feat choices to be worth it just for that weapon by the time level 7 rolls around? Would it be unbalanced for an advanced weapon to be a monk weapon?