Weapon Focus unarmed strike

[artemisent420]

I am making a monk level 10. He has weapon focus unarmed strike when I am using unarmed strike the +1 doesn't apply. Also when i use brass knuckles of corrosion then have a +1 that should also apply. Neither of these bonuses are applied on the character sheet. How would I go about getting them to show up?

[risner]

Originally Posted by artemisent420

I am making a monk level 10. He has weapon focus unarmed strike when I am using unarmed strike the +1 doesn't apply. Also when i use brass knuckles of corrosion then have a +1 that should also apply. Neither of these bonuses are applied on the character sheet. How would I go about getting them to show up?

It works for me.
I've got several characters with WF Unarmed Strike and it has always included.

Now, Brass Knuckles are a separate weapon. So any bonuses to them won't include bonuses to Unarmed Strike and visa versa.

[artemisent420]

I understand they won't stack but the +1 for weapon enhancement should work. It doesn't I need to know how to get it to work. I've checked all my characters none of them get the +1 for magical weapon enhancement. Nor do they get bonus from weapon focus.

[Sendric]

Can you tell us more about the character? I made a 10th level monk, added weapon focus and got the bonus. Is the character large? Anything else about the character that differs from the norm?

[Sendric]

Originally Posted by risner

Now, Brass Knuckles are a separate weapon. So any bonuses to them won't include bonuses to Unarmed Strike and visa versa.

BTW, I don't see Brass Knuckles listed as an option for Weapon Focus. I don't know if its supposed to be there or not.

[artemisent420]

No he is a human. Also brass knuckles count as unarmed strike so they shouldn't have there own category. I think there must be something wrong because It doesn't add weapon focus for any weapons on any characters nor does it add enhancement to attack on any weapon.

[Sendric]

if you are missing a +1 to all your weapon attacks, you can do an adjustment to add a +1 bonus to attack in the adjustment tab as a work-around.

As far as the problem, I'm not really up to date on Pathfinder rules pertaining to weapons such as this. If a weapon counts as unarmed, then I would think that Weapon Focus (Unarmed Strike) would add to attacks with those weapons as well. If that's the case, then I think the problem is that HL isn't doing that (which I also see). If that's not the case, then I'm not entirely sure what's going on.

[risner]

Originally Posted by Sendric

BTW, I don't see Brass Knuckles listed as an option for Weapon Focus. I don't know if its supposed to be there or not.

Ok, checked into this. It has "Don't Allow Selection" for Weapon Focus selected.
This is a bug, as if this is selected, then it needs to behave differently than it currently does.

In short, there are one of two ways to read RAW in regards to Brass Knuckles and Unarmed Strike:
1) Treat them as different weapons, so Weapon Focus U.S. and B.K are separate feats, and B.K. borrow damage from U.S but the "weapon" you use is B.K. So AoMF Flaming will not make +5 B.K. weapon flaming.

2) Treat them as same weapons and you can stack all except enhancement bonuses from AoMF with B.K. bonuses (so AoMF Flaming works with +5 B.K for +5 Flaming Unarmed Strike)

As it is now, B.K. are a blend of the two ways. to read the rules.

BTW, I'm so sick of these debates on these weapons on Paizo forums. I wish they would just pick a stance, but Paizo has (on many occasions) said they don't want to pick a stance and answer an official response to these questions usually with "it is up to the DM".

Back to the OP question, I can't detect your problem. I've created a character and I see WF improving his attack with Unarmed Strike. But it doesn't improve his Brass Knuckles (due to a bug I describe above.)

[artemisent420]

I think i'm going to uninstall HL and reinstall it. Does anyone know if they will make me get another license? It is on the same pc.

[Mathias]

Before you do that, I recommend moving all .user files from your c:HeroLab/data/pathfinder folder to somewhere else, then open Hero Lab. At that point, you'll be back to a clean install, without losing all your creations - they've just been moved to a different folder temporarily.