Help creating improvised weapons for monk

Lonewolf147 · March 15th, 2015, 06:59 AM

Anyone able to give me a hand and tell me what all I need to add to a new item to make it an improvised weapon for a Monk of the Empty Hand?

I've created the item, I can get it to show up as a melee or ranged attack weapon. But I can't get the Flurry of blows to show up, nor can I get it to show as proficient even though I have the Catch Off guard Feat.

ShadowChemosh · March 15th, 2015, 09:29 AM

So on the Equipment->Weapon tab look for "Special Qualities" that is where you tell HL its a "Improvised Weapon".

Lonewolf147 · March 15th, 2015, 05:31 PM

I do have that selected.

I've even equipped the generic improvised weapon that is already in the system. Flurry doesnt show up for it either.

ShadowChemosh · March 15th, 2015, 06:23 PM

Well that is interesting. So not only do you need to mark it as a Special Quality you need to manually add the tag "Helper.Improvised". So click on "Tags" in the top right corner and add it. I will add this fix to the Generic Improved weapon in the Basic Pack.

That I think is a bug almost as why have 'TWO' tags that say the same thing???

Aaron · March 15th, 2015, 06:43 PM

There is an "improvised" item power which can be used when creating a custom weapon that does this work for you. For example, if you have a broken bottle which deals damage as a dagger, add a custom weapon, choose dagger for the base weapon, give it the improvised item power, and enter "broken bottle" for the custom name. Then all your empty hand monk stuff should work with it, i think.

ShadowChemosh · 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Aaron

There is an "improvised" item power which can be used when creating a custom weapon that does this work for you. For example, if you have a broken bottle which deals damage as a dagger, add a custom weapon, choose dagger for the base weapon, give it the improvised item power, and enter "broken bottle" for the custom name. Then all your empty hand monk stuff should work with it, i think.

That does indeed work. But no where ever would I have thought about it as a "Item Power". I understand mechanically the concept but still never would have looked for it there.

P.S. - Welcome back Aaron? I thought you where gone for a month?

Aaron · March 15th, 2015, 06:50 PM

Yeah, perhaps not the best place for it for discoverability, but the adjust tab is also similarly obscure to lots of people.

Aaron · March 15th, 2015, 06:51 PM

But now you know, and that's half the battle. The remaining half is red lasers and blue lasers.

ShadowChemosh · March 15th, 2015, 06:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Aaron

But now you know, and that's half the battle. The remaining half is red lasers and blue lasers.

Yep. I also just added a note to the community "Generic Improved Weapon" to let people know.

P.S. - Welcome back Aaron? I thought you where gone for a month?

Aaron · March 15th, 2015, 07:04 PM

I'm still in Japan and on vacation, just periodically poking my head into the forums to see what is going down.

Lonewolf147 Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2013 Posts: 137 March 15th, 2015, 06:59 AM	Anyone able to give me a hand and tell me what all I need to add to a new item to make it an improvised weapon for a Monk of the Empty Hand? I've created the item, I can get it to show up as a melee or ranged attack weapon. But I can't get the Flurry of blows to show up, nor can I get it to show as proficient even though I have the Catch Off guard Feat.
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Aaron Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2011 Posts: 6,793 March 15th, 2015, 06:43 PM	There is an "improvised" item power which can be used when creating a custom weapon that does this work for you. For example, if you have a broken bottle which deals damage as a dagger, add a custom weapon, choose dagger for the base weapon, give it the improvised item power, and enter "broken bottle" for the custom name. Then all your empty hand monk stuff should work with it, i think.
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