Combustion Knuckle

There are some legendary monks that spend years focusing on how to harness their bodies in more traditional fashions, while others take a more unique approach. Combustion knuckles spend their time mastering how to best mix firearms and physical combat into a single deadly style.

### Weapon Proficiencies

The combustion knuckle is proficient with all firearms.

This ability alters the legendary monk’s weapon proficiencies.

### Flurry of Blows

A combustion knuckle can make an attack with a firearm in place of an unarmed strike, but their first attack during the flurry of blows must be an unarmed strike. Whenever a combustion knuckle makes an attack with a firearm during a flurry of blows, it does not provoke an attack of opportunity. In addition, the combustion knuckle uses their flurry of blows, they can use the Rapid Shot feat but not the Two-Weapon Fighting feat.

This ability alters the legendary monk’s flurry of blows class feature.

### Qi Pool

Combustion knuckles treat firearms as though they were unarmed strikes for the purpose of retaining qi points. In addition, their bladed knuckle and additional strike qi techniques also apply to attacks made with firearms, but the critical multiplier of any firearm affected by this ability is reduced to x2.

They also gain the following qi technique:

*Quick Clear (Ex, 0 qi points):* As a swift action, the combustion knuckle can remove the broken condition from a single firearm they are currently wielding, as long as that condition was gained by a firearm misfire.

This ability alters the legendary monk’s qi pool class feature.

### Path of Mastery

Combustion knuckles must select the path of the river, although its bonus to damage is also granted to firearms, although this additional damage to firearms cannot exceed their class level.

This ability alters the path of mastery class feature.

### AC Bonus

A combustion knuckle does not gain a bonus to their armor class at 4th level and every four levels afterwards.

This ability alters AC bonus.

### Rapid Shot

You gain the Rapid Shot feat. This ability replaces the two-weapon fighting class feature.

### Style Feat

A combustion knuckle can select one of the following feats in place of a style feat, even if they do not meet the prerequisites: Precise Shot, Ranged Disarm, Ranged Trip, Rapid Reload.

### Qi Techniques

Combustion knuckles can select the following qi techniques:

#### Combination Specialist

Prerequisites: 10th level.

Whenever you successfully attack with two unarmed strikes and two ranged attacks, you gain a +2 to the DC of your combination strikes.

#### Spiritual Firearm

Prerequisites: 8th level.

0 qi point(s)

Any firearm you wield deals damage equal to your unarmed strike damage if your unarmed strike would deal more damage.

#### Untethered Flurry

Prerequisites: 8th level.

Whenever you use a flurry of blows, you do not have to start it with an unarmed strike, but you must be within 30 feet of any creature you attack with your flurry of blows.

### Gun Familiarity

At 4th level and every four levels afterwards, a combustion knuckle lowers the misfire chance of any firearm they wield by 1.

### Combo Strikes

A combustion knuckle treats attacks made with firearms as unarmed strikes for the purpose of combos, although hitting more than one creature at a time still only adds a single hit to their combo.