Recent content by Donald Braden

it is a power balance issue, I am just worried the fifth level thing would shoot past the mark...In effect, through 4th level, 95% of my attacks look just like a normal monk weapon attack plus unarmed strike. Periodically I expend one of my 4 ki points to do flurry of blows in addition to the...

the question is more centered on the situation where you expend no ki and you get the monk weapon and an unarmed attack. If you spend ki you get the monk weapon attack and two unarmed strikes. Picking up one additional d4 damage in an attack sequence seems like a pretty low return for spending a...

one additional 4 hit point attack will break things badly?

how so? I mean, unless you only make 4 attacks in a day and use ki every singe time almost all of my 4th level attacks are just the Martial Arts attacks, which is how the rules are clearly set up, the monk weapon and unarmed strike. The reason I raised the question at all is I am getting close...

The monk attack did seem underpowered compared to fighters and the strength of spells available to spellcasters at similarly low levels. We are working through all of this as we are all new to 5e, some of us not playing for years.

So, playing a monk in 5e. My dungeon master and i talked this through as I researched some african martial arts traditions when developing my character. The monk Martial Arts feature indicates that the monk can make one unarmed blow as a bonus action. In the real world description of the goal...