Silly thought on Monks

PrCs started out as a DM's call optional rule. Now everything's solved with PrCs.
I'm slowly but surely starting to come to the conclusion that killing the whole notion of PrCs (or at least drastically clipping its wings) is in order.
You then may want to look at Pathfinder, but I would argue they have the opposite problem in most cases.
 

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PrCs started out as a DM's call optional rule. Now everything's solved with PrCs.
I'm slowly but surely starting to come to the conclusion that killing the whole notion of PrCs (or at least drastically clipping its wings) is in order.

Why u hate monks dawg?
 


PrCs started out as a DM's call optional rule. Now everything's solved with PrCs.
I'm slowly but surely starting to come to the conclusion that killing the whole notion of PrCs (or at least drastically clipping its wings) is in order.
PrC's started out what? When did that happen?

There was a time when PrC's weren't standard to a build? Must have been before my time, and I'm old!
 

PrC's started out what? When did that happen?

There was a time when PrC's weren't standard to a build? Must have been before my time, and I'm old!

In the core trio, PrCs appear in the DMG - the book that only the DM is supposed to look inside, remember?
There's a reason why the DMG is a separate book, you know.
(just to be clear, I'm talking about 3.5e)
Back in the late 80s, the days of the boxed sets, the days before the internet, if something was in the DMG and the DM didn't talk about it - it didn't exist.
 


I've always played Monks as skirmishers or caster-killers. Take advantage of that fast move, get up in a caster's grill, grapple and wail until caster is dead.

Of course, I also multi-class liberally, so there's almost always some fighter, rogue, or psychic warrior in there.
 

My usual is mixing a Dex/Wis/Con Monk with PsyWar or some kind of arcanist, the Lucid Cenobite or Kensai PrCl, and adding a polearm.
 



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