Greetings, i have a simple question. Are monk stiles needed to be performed with a specific body part (say, tiger claws requires your hands to be free) or are they free styile?
I think that'S mostly flavor - my girlfriends next to me disagrees
Unarmed strikes are written in a way that you can use them with whatever body-part is availible and at least raw there is nothing in the styles that say you can't do it
Seems to be a thing where it comes down to what your gm decides
If someone else has some deeper insight in that I would be happy to be corrected though
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Standard unarmed strikes are very clearly whatever body part you want. Style-specific ones actually do state themselves to involve specific body parts, and whether that's a mechanical or purely flavor thing is not clear.
IMO, I'd say you need to have your hands free to use Tiger Style (or your feet for Dragon, or whatever), but wouldn't object to a specific attack being described as a kick, punch, headbutt, or whatever.
I think it would be counterproductive lock them into specific body parts since the combat styles themselves (Tiger, Crane, Dragon, etc) have several different types of moves and techniques. That would be very reductive, in my opinion, specially since they're Kung Fu styles (mainly) and it's a martial arts that use every body.
If it was boxing, taekwon do or something similar, then it would make more sense, imo.
That wouldn't make any sense considering some of the other style attacks might not have an equivalent body part. How would a human do a Dragon's Tail attack? Or a Falling Boulder attack? The names are obviously just for flavor.
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That wouldn't make any sense considering some of the other style attacks might not have an equivalent body part. How would a human do a Dragon's Tail attack? Or a Falling Boulder attack? The names are obviously just for flavor.
Many of them specify what body part they use in the actual Feat text. For example:
You enter the stance of a dragon and make powerful leg strikes like a lashing dragon’s tail. You can make dragon tail attacks that deal 1d10 bludgeoning damage.
Mountain Stance does not have such language, nor do Crane or Tiger Stances, but Rain of Embers and Wolf Stances do.
That said, going over them again, enough don't list anything that I'd probably call it pure flavor even on those that do.