Deity Favoured Weapon: Unarmed Strike


Rules Questions


I have a cleric of Korada (favoured weapon unarmed strike). Does a cleric's proficiency with her deity's favoured weapon essentially give her the Improved Unarmed Strike feat (allow her to do lethal and not provoke attacks of opportunity) or is it mechanically useless?

For:

If I was GM'ing in a home game, I would probably allow it to function as Improved Unarmed Strike, because it's essentially the same as getting the martial or exotic weapon proficiency to use a longbow of Erastil or starknife of Desna. I mean, the whole point of being proficient with a deity's weapon is to be able to use it with at least a small degree of competence.

Against:

Pharasma, Nethys and several other deities have simple weapons (which clerics are already proficient with) making them mechanically useless. Unarmed strike is a simple weapon, so why should a cleric of Korada get anything special?


Yes.

Scarab Sages

Yes, you get improved unarmed. That was clarified by either James Jacobs or SKR somewhere in the forums a while back. I had tracked it down for playing a cleric of Irori which has the same issue. I don't recall if there was an official errata.

Sczarni

In PFS, Inquisitors of Korada and Irori also now receive IUS as a bonus feat (which was only a recent change).

Grand Lodge

Nefreet wrote:
In PFS, Inquisitors of Korada and Irori also now receive IUS as a bonus feat (which was only a recent change).

True, by adoption of the Golarion FAQ linked above.

There are some odd bits and bobs in the campaign setting FAQ, presumably because it provides a home for questions about the - of Golarion softcovers. It seems as if this entry would fit in the CRB FAQ, next to the very similar question about favoured weapon (bastard sword) - or do deities with favoured weapon (unarmed strike) grant this bonus feat only on Golarion?

Anyhow, it's been asked and answered.


Thanks all, especially Rynjin for the link.

Sczarni

Starglim wrote:
Nefreet wrote:
In PFS, Inquisitors of Korada and Irori also now receive IUS as a bonus feat (which was only a recent change).
True, by adoption of the Golarion FAQ linked above.

It's more recent than that. Inquisitors in PFS weren't treated the same as Clerics. It took its own FAQ request to get it resolved.

I mentioned it here because some PFS judges I encounter at Cons weren't aware of the change.

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