Haste effects question

[Cylerist]

Since the haste spells reads: "When making a full attack action, a hasted creature may make one extra attack with any weapon he is holding."
Does this mean a person using unarmed strikes and a monk using flurry of blows cannot benifit from the extra attack since they are not holding a weapon?

[Starglim]

An unarmed strike is listed as a simple weapon.

In the Bestiary, a clay golem's haste ability is "[other than casting time and duration] the same as the spell". The golem has two slam attacks and no weapon proficiencies, so if the spell required the recipient to wield a separate weapon to get an extra attack, the golem's ability would be much less useful to it.

[james maissen]

Cylerist wrote:

Since the haste spells reads: "When making a full attack action, a hasted creature may make one extra attack with any weapon he is holding."

Does this mean a person using unarmed strikes and a monk using flurry of blows cannot benifit from the extra attack since they are not holding a weapon?

This comes up every so often and has since 3.5.

Just ignore the extra phrase 'with any weapon he is holding' and pretend it doesn't exist... that would be the way almost everyone I've ever heard of plays it.

-James

[James Risner]

james maissen wrote:

Just ignore the extra phrase 'with any weapon he is holding' and pretend it doesn't exist..

No need to ignore anything, since you are always considered "holding" your Unarmed Strike weapon.