Monks Flurry Of Blows

[Slumbo824]

I've been reading the fine print of flurry of blows for a monk and I'm not sure if this is right or not but it just came to mind. It says a monk uses their level as their B.A.B. so lets say you have a level 4 Monk. It's your Strength Mod. + your monk level (4) but then you have a Flurry of blow bonus in the chart. So what im asking is are you adding that flurry of blows bonus on top of your strength mod. and your monk level ? it seems kinda crazy, that would make monks have some of the highest attack bonuses in the game. Lets say you had a 16 str. score. so that'd be 3+4(monk level) + 2/2 so that would be +9/+9 for your full round flurry ? just curious is all. I never really play monks but that just came to mind.

[Brain in a Jar]

A 4th level Monk using his Flurry of Blows with a Str 16 would be;

Unarmed +5/+5

The reason being that the Flurry of Blows progression on the Monk chart already factors in the BAB along with Two-weapon fighting rules.

So a Monk has a +4 BAB for Flurry but has a -2 penalty for TWF so it becomes a +2/+2.

[Slumbo824]

That makes perfect sense, I suppose I didn't factor in that part of it, Jumped the gun on that one. haha, thanks for the help.

[Shadow_of_death]

The flurry of blows chart is the attack bonus you use before adding in strength or anything else. It is not really necessary, but I assume they thought the "level=BAB" was confusing so just gave you a FOB BAB chart instead. It is essentially the BAB you have when flurrying

Edit: sooo ninja'd