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Monks of the empty hand are proficient with the shuriken only. A monk of the empty hand treats normal weapons as improvised weapons with the following equivalencies (substituting all of their statistics for the listed weapon): a light weapon functions as a light hammer, a one-handed weapon functions as a club, and a Two-handed weapon functions as a quarterstaff.
The quoted text is from the Monk of the Empty Hand's Weapon Proficiencies. I'm curious how this interacts with multiclassing; if a MotEH has weapon proficiencies from another class, or gains levels in a class later that gives weapon proficiencies, what happens? Is he still stuck only able to use them as improvised weapons? Is he able to choose between using weapons properly, and as improvised weapons? Would new proficiencies replace the improvised weapons?
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I'd agree with that ruling.
I think that you could wield another weapon as its meant to be wielded, but not flurry, or you could wield it as an improvised weapon doing less damage and flurrying.
That is pretty much how it reads to me.
If you multiclass into druid could shillelagh be cast on the improvised weapon?
What is a club or a quarterstaff really? especially if it was once a bar stool leg or a tent pole at one time does that mean it is not a club or a quarterstaff now? If that is true then the way the item is being used at that moment defines what it is... I would be hard pressed on making a short sword have this even if it's stats get swapped to a club and it is being used as a club. Note most police carry asps (a metal collapsible club)