I am working on some custom gear for a character. I am in a gestalt game and playing a zen archer monk and druid. I like to have things planned out and researched before presenting my DM with what I would like to do, to help reduce the work load for them, and hopefully gain insight from experienced gamers.
The focus of the class is to use the druid wild shape ability take advantage of the air/wind elemental size and dex increase and have it benefit the ranged attacks of the monk, while taking advantage of the monks ability of increasing unarmed strike damage based on level and size, and that their arrows can deal that same damage.
What I am currently working on is a new weapon property based on either the spell ki arrow or the zen archer monks ability to spend a ki point and have all arrows deal unarmed strike damage for the round (also called ki arrows). Now normally an ability like this would not be all that powerful as weapons generally do more damage than unarmed strikes, but that is very not true in this case.
Here is a table which demonstrates how the damage grows
$$ \begin{array}{l|l|l} \text{Level} & \text{Medium} & \text{Large} \\ \hline 1 & 1d6 & 1d8 \\ 4 & 1d8 & 2d6 \\ 8 & 1d10 & 2d8 \\ 12 & 2d6 & 3d6 \\ \end{array} $$
As the table shows, it only gets better as I increase in level and size. As arrows do 1d8 for medium, after 4th level or even when I am large, the arrows will be dealing equal to greater damage.
Here is how I expect the final result to read like:
Price/bonus: ?
Aura faint transmutation, cl 1st; weight -
Description
An Ranged Unarmed Strike bow/arrow allows the wielder to change the normal damage of their arrows to change the damage dice of arrows he shoots to that of their unarmed strikes.
Construction Requirements
Craft magical arms and armor, ki arrow, Cost ??
The details I would like help deciding are:
- Should this ability be applied to the bow or arrows? Or is this even an appropriate ability to have? Or does it belong as some other kind of magic item, like a ring or bracers?
- Should the ability be expressed as a price like adaptive or as a bonus like flaming?
- What should the price or bonus be?