Hello, I could not find any thread about this topic, so I will try to ask here:
When you take the Flurry of Blows action, do you have to announce the target(s) of both attacks before rolling to hit and damage or not?
Let me paint you a picture on why this might be relevant: Your monk is surrounded by multiple enemies, he sees that one of them is almost dead but not quite yet. He is very confident that a single hit will knock the heavily wounded enemy out. Now can he make his first attack and see if it hits or not before having to announce the target of his second attack or not? If he has to announce his 2 targets before rolling, then this can lead to either a waste of an attack or to a good chance that the almost dead enemy survives because of the single attack you announced on it misses.
The reason why I am somewhat confused about this is the damage that you are combining in case both attacks target and hit the same enemy. I assume this means that you roll to hit for both attacks before rolling any damage, or do you still roll hit => damage and in case the second attack hits the same target, you keep the resistance/weakness effect of the first damage roll in mind?
I would appreciate some clarification on this.
