I dont know if this has been addressed elsewhere and if it has I do apologise for a rehash of a topic.
Im looking for an expanded list of monk weapons. Anyone know where I can find more. Im looking for sai and tonfa mainly.
Thanks
Are you looking for a definitive list of weapons useable by monks or are you looking for stats of said weapons (i.e. damage, critical range, etc)?
For weapon lists I've always taken the policy of "use whatever you want." There are many, many martial traditions that embrace a enormous variety of weapons: if the DM is willing the monk's weapon list can be expanded to reflect that. As far as stats for said weapons (tonfa and sai particularly) I believe I remember seeing them in Oriental Adventures. As far as their inclusion in 3.5 material, I'm drawing a blank.
Im looking for stats for said weapons and an expanded list as well.
Dunno if it's kosher to post up stats for weapons not in the SRD so I'd suggest tracking down a copy of Oriental Adventures (or a 3.5 equivalent if anyone knows what book they would be in). Sorry man. But hey you can always just work up the stats on your own. Just as a Katana is essentially a masterwork bastard sword, the tonfa is (essentially) a club and a sai is essentially a dagger that can only do piercing damage and assists in disarms.
For several monk weapons with Pathfinder flavor, you can look in the Pathfinder Chronicles Campaign Setting.
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From OA 3e:
Weapon Proficiency: Monks are proficient with the following
weapons: butterfly sword, club, crossbow (light or heavy), dagger,
javelin, jitte, kama, nunchaku, quarterstaff, sai, shuriken, and tonfa.
Monks can use any of the following weapons with their unarmed
base attack bonus: butterfly sword, club, jitte, kama, lajatang,
nekode, nunchaku, quarterstaff, sai, three-section staff, and tonfa.
I'm liking the last sentence a lot. I assume the monk is also proficient with the second list.
Holy Threadomancy, Man-bat! Monks are officially proficient in the weapons they are said to be proficient in under their class features, and with any weapons that it says in the description that monks are proficient with it. E.g. Cestus, Temple Sword in APG. Monk weapons are those that can be used to flurry, not necessarily ones that monks are proficient with. If using traits, any monk can be made to be proficient with a simple or martial monk weapon by taking the trait Heirloom weapon. That won't work for exotic weapons, though, which many of them are. Rule 0 also applies in everything except PFS organized play: If your GM decides that your monk was trained in Tonfa, bo, sai, and monk spade instead of club, quarterstaff, siangham, and spear, then that's how it is.
