Improvised Flurry
A monk can use an improvised weapon as part of their flurry of blows.
Prerequisites: Catch Off-Guard or Throw Anything
Benefit: You are able to use an improvised melee or ranged weapon in a flurry of blows. You still suffer the penalties for using an improvised weapon if you do not have the appropriate prequisite feat when using an improvised weapon you are not proficient in (Catch Off-Guard for melee, Throw Anything for ranged).
Normal: You can make a flurry of blows with unarmed attacks or monk weapons only.
Second, I would make it melee weapons only and use catch ioffguard as the prereq.
and your character name must be Jackie Chan....
Second, I would make it melee weapons only and use catch ioffguard as the prereq.
and your character name must be Jackie Chan....
Shuriken are listed as a weapon that the monk can use in a flurry of blows as per the rules and is a ranged weapon. So rather than a flurry of melee attacks the flurry is a flurry of flying metal death!!!! Okay they only do 1d3 damage, but they are still allowed in a flurry.
So if a character grabbed up a handful of beer mugs and started winging them at foes (a mug does 1d3 dmg by the way), I can totally see a flurry of mugs. Or perhaps a flurry of thrown broken glass or a flurry of thrown rolls that were not baked very well and left out too long that are hard as a rock. I can see lots of flurried thrown objects.
So that is why I added the throw anything in there as well as melee, it just seemed to fit the idea behind it.
I don't know, I think throwing a bucket full of swords at something sounds cool.
a) shuriken are a monk weapon, and so a monk can flurry with them. A monk can also take the Cornugon Stun feat (from the Cheliax Companion), and actually throw a Stunning Fist (I'd call it a Stunning Star). (If you succeed in stunning a flying enemy from the ground with a shuriken, go you!)
b) I think a monk that took Improvised Flurry for ranged would also need Quick Draw, because no thrown weapon other than shuriken are free to draw. Also you still couldn't throw more than 1 two-handed object.
Good observation with item B. I was pretty much thinking of smaller and light 1 handed objects that a person could easily snatch up like apples, mugs, spoons, and the such for this feat. Perhaps we could add "improvised weapons must be considered light weapons to be used in a flurry".
It would nip out anyone trying to pick up a heavy chair and doing a flurry with it =) Thats just silliness.
I suppose that I'll check this out later.