Here's an odd question a player brought up to me about D&D 4e. I was curious on your thoughts. Barbarians can take the feat Hurl Weapon:
You can use any one-handed off-hand weapon as a heavy thrown weapon. Normal range for weapons you wield this way is 5 squares, and long range is 10 squares.
Monks treat unarmed attacks as one-handed off-hand attacks.
Could a multiclass barbarian/monk throw their fists (ki-blast)?
This gives a new meaning to unarmed attack, but doesn't seem particularly useful.
First, the unarmed strike:
When you make a weapon attack such as a melee basic attack, you can use the monk unarmed strike, which is a weapon in the unarmed weapon group. This weapon has the off-hand weapon property and a +3 proficiency bonus, and it deals 1d8 damage. You must have a hand free to use your monk unarmed strike,
Hurl Weapon states:
You can use any one-handed off-hand weapon as a heavy thrown weapon
Therefore, all a monk needs to do is amputate their hands, and they can indeed chuck them at an enemy as heavy thrown weapons. There is no provision for "ranged unarmed hands-less ki attacks" though. Perhaps the monk should invest in increasing her reach instead.
On a more serious note, however, there are no restrictions on refluffing thrown shuriken (or what have you) to be "ki bolts" if it fits the character's style. Also appropriate would be a transcendent ki focus proficiency.
In the RAW yes. But after throwing it, they would have to go pick it up again as well.
The hand would literally be thrown, not some sort of Ki blast. If you wish, as the GM however, you can always house-rule it in and reward them for their creativity.
