[RPG] Flurry of Blows Damage Calculation

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Flurry of Blows

You can make unarmed strikes with supernatural speed, using your
fists, kicks, and head-­butts.** You can use your attack action to make
two unarmed attacks*
. If you haven’t used your whole move for the turn,
you can move between the attacks.

You can spend 1 ki point to make an
additional unarmed attack as a part of the same action
*. You can decide
to spend this point after seeing the result of the previous attack.


Unarmed Strike

As a result of your training with martial arts, your unarmed strike is
considered to be a finesse weapon that deals 1d6 bludgeoning damage on
a hit.

Your unarmed strike damage increases as you gain levels, as
noted in the Unarmed Strike column in the Monk table.

Your unarmed strikes count as being magical for the purpose of overcoming
resistance and immunities.


Both from D&D Next 09/20/13

Does that mean that a normal attack using Flurry of Blows is 1d6+Dex + 1d6+Dex at lvl 1 and using Ki can increase it an additional 1d6?

or

Does Flurry of Blows act like Two-­Weapon Fighting and which makes the second hit not add the dex; making your normal attack 1d6+Dex + 1d6 + 1d6 per Ki used?

or

Do you use a Ki to activate Flurry of Blows to make your attack 1d6+Dex + 1d6 per Ki used?

or

Is there something else i am missing?


  • The Bold and Italic parts in Flurry of Blows makes me think it is this one or the second one.

Best Answer

For the basic Flurry at level 1, you make two separate attack rolls (1d20+Dex/Str+1 each). With a Ki Point, you make yet a third (or fourth) attack at the same bonus. Each attack that successfully hits deals 1d6+Str/Dex damage. Because they see an unarmed attack, even with a higher damage threshold from being a monk, as an inferior weapon to dual wielding they have opted not to treat it like an off-hand weapon because monks are also considered to use any part of their body equally during the attack - just some part finally hits for damage if the roll is high enough.

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