This is related to another question I asked a few days ago about odd races as characters. One of the player's has a flail snail character that he has made that has levels in monk. Looking at the monk's unarmed strike ability it mentions that,
A monk's attacks may be with fist, elbows, knees, and feet.
Obviously, a snail does not have any of these appendages. Does this mean that the character does not benefit from many of the monk's class abilities that require unarmed attacks, or are there rules to allow a character like this to substitute their natural attacks?
Best Answer
A flail snail is not a playable race in the first place. As a result, this and about 100 other questions about how they fit into the rules and how they manage to adventure will have to be the result of GM discretion. I don't see any value in trying to answer them one by one because they are going to be by nature arbitrary - if the GM is set on allowing this character, then he'll be forced to let things like this work to "make the character viable" regardless of RAW or good sense. If he wants to play a flail snail, and then he wants to play a flail snail monk, you're just a big ol' meanie for preventing it, so you are constrained to allow it. Y'all have made your bed, now you have to lie in it. He just smacks people with his tail or shell or eyestalks or whatever. Done.
Oh, and of course he can grapple too. Stop trying to control my character!