Strength Bonus on Vicious Stomp


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I have a PC who will be taking a level of Monk to get Combat Reflexes and qualify for Vicious Stomp more easily. He likes using a flail to trip people, so I want to verify that his unarmed AoO from Vicious Stomp would still get his full Str mod as a bonus to damage. In other words, since his Str is 20 I think his Vicious Stomp will do 1d6+5 damage. If so that's pretty cool. I don't see any reason why this shouldn't work. I just figure that it seems like the sort of thing which other players are likely to question since they haven't seen it in action before.


Yes, it adds his full str bonus to every AoO.


Nicos wrote:
Yes, it adds his full str bonus to every AoO.

Or 1.5x Str if using a one-handed weapon in two hands because an AoO is *not* part of Flurry of Blows.

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In addition, he gets his full Strength bonus on unarmed strikes, even if he is a Master of Many Styles with Two-Weapon Fighting, because

Monk wrote:
There is no such thing as an off-hand attack for a monk striking unarmed. A monk may thus apply his full Strength bonus on damage rolls for all his unarmed strikes.

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