Monastic Weaponry feat still doesn't allow monk weapons fully

[SuperSheep]

So monk weapons are universally uncommon and the feat grants you access, but do all the stores just start magically selling to just your monk and not the other monk in the party or the other PCs?

Can anyone just buy them, with the understanding that only monks can be proficient with them? I'm trying to understand how the feat and the rarity interact. It's not entirely clear to me.

[Captain Morgan]

The thing I imagined in my head was that when something uncommon becomes available through your ancestry or class or whatever you learn where you can get it through cultural familiarity. So a dwarf knows where to look in the city to find the special weaponsmith who makes dwarven war axes. In a smaller town, maybe that isn't a proper shop keeper but a lone drunk craftsman.

[PossibleCabbage]

I feel like most of the time when a feat gives access to an uncommon option it's to avoid having to ask the GM "so, I want to use this unusual weapon, can I buy one? Can you make sure to seed treasure piles with magical versions thereof?"

Like the number of Fauchards appearing in loot piles spikes precipitously when someone takes "Weapon Focus (Fauchard)" in my experience. But in PF2 you don't need to keep replacing you weapon, you can just get the one you've got upgraded.

But in general I'm inclined to let people find uncommon weapons if they set out to find them and there's a plausible way they can get access to one.

[graystone]

SuperSheep wrote:

So monk weapons are universally uncommon and the feat grants you access, but do all the stores just start magically selling to just your monk and not the other monk in the party or the other PCs?

Yep. Every store now stocks the weapons but only those with the feat can see them. They are schrodinger's weapons, both there and not there. ;)

[thenobledrake]

The only thing that the feat granting you access to uncommon weapons does is let you start play with one without having to get your GM's explicit permission by spending your starting funds on it.

It doesn't affect the stock of any stores you may or may not shop at during play. Heck, a store you encounter in play might not even have some items that are rated as common.

[Reverse]

It's an odd group that has two Monks, both of whom want Monk weapons, but only one is willing to invest the feat (by default, the second Monk won't be proficient with many of them).

Presumably in this scenario, Weapon Monk buys extra weapons for Weaponless Monk, in just the same way previous a Fighter would only need access to his Crafting Wizard buddy, not to actually take the item crafting feats himself. If a third PC also wants a Monk weapon, Weapon Monk can buy it for them as well. Although for a group this invested in Monk weapons, they're likely to be playing in Tian Xia and find plenty of them in treasure anyway.