If one added the Versatile Design modification to a weapon, he could add it to the monk weapon ground and use it with flurry of blows?
Versatile Design also specifies that "A melee weapon cannot be considered part of a weapon group for ranged weapons, and vice versa", but the Monk weapon group is hybrid since it contains also shuriken, wushu dart and rope dart which are ranged wapon...
...so...
...if one adds Versatile Design to a firearm, in theory, he could go "gun kata" like a Tetragrammaton cleric? :P
I mean...he would be able to use flurry of blows with that firearm?
If a weapon belongs to the monk weapon group then the monk will automatically count as proficient with it?
And if the weapon had the Training property with the Weapon Adept feat embedded in it, in theory, if you can use it without non-proficiency penalty if you are proficient with the "base" weapon?
Skarm
Changing its weapon group won't grant it the Monk special quality, so it probably won't work. The Unchained Monk specifies it is proficient with weapons with the Monk special quality, not the Monk weapon group, while the Core Monk is not automatically proficient with all Monk weapons.
If you want to flurry with things that are probably not meant to be flurried with, using versatile design, the preferred method is to move them to the close weapon group and be a brawler.
The close weapon group also contains the wushu dart.
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I've been waiting for someone to ask about the gun monk. The way you do it is to go Sohei monk and use versatile design on your gun to put it into the bow weapon group. Now once you hit 6 you just choose the bow group for weapon training and voila; You can now flurry with a gun.
As cool as it is, it's actually far worse than just using a bow due to misfire chance and having to multiclass to get dex to damage.
Changing its weapon group won't grant it the Monk special quality, so it probably won't work. The Unchained Monk specifies it is proficient with weapons with the Monk special quality, not the Monk weapon group, while the Core Monk is not automatically proficient with all Monk weapons.
If you want to flurry with things that are probably not meant to be flurried with, using versatile design, the preferred method is to move them to the close weapon group and be a brawler.
The close weapon group also contains the wushu dart.
I've been waiting for someone to ask about the gun monk. The way you do it is to go Sohei monk and use versatile design on your gun to put it into the bow weapon group. Now once you hit 6 you just choose the bow group for weapon training and voila; You can now flurry with a gun.
As cool as it is, it's actually far worse than just using a bow due to misfire chance and having to multiclass to get dex to damage.
Sigh!
I knew that it looked too good to be true!! :(I guess that the only way to get this benefit is to ask my DM if I can try to stack the Blade of the Sword Saint property on another kind of weapon...
Skarm