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In my experience, monks don't have particularly good AC. My monk's AC is 21. Its pretty easy for a fighter, cleric or paladin -- any heavy armor class -- to get that good an AC. And, on whole, the monk will have fewer hit points than either the fighter or paladin. Hell, right now in the game...

My DM and I talk a lot -- we live together and all. We've actually talked about the tactics thing, how when she is rushed for time she'll select certain sorts of critters 'cause she doesn't have to become familiar with all their special abilities. Which does mean that there aren't many...

This post . . . speaks volumes, heh. Thanks for the thread! The DM is my fiancee and we live together. She came home about forty minutes ago and we've been chatting about this stuff and we are coming to the conclusion that all the melee fighters are sorta underpowered compared to mid to high...

Actually, to both of those questions the answer really is "no, not really." Many, many things you fight at mid-level tend to be in the large catagory -- meaning they are very strong, and obviously bigger, and grappling is just a damn bad option. As for stunning fist -- well, virtually...

Excepting, of course, that druids are as good at melee as monks. And can change shapes. Furthermore, my critique is actually that even were I playing a fighter this situation would still be there. Like I said in another post, the sixth level fighter I statted out would have actually been...

A monk's belt is 13,000gp. My character is sixth level and my GM takes seriously the whole "amount of treasure we're supposed to have" thing. I got nothing like the cash to afford a monk's belt. I doubt my GM will let me get improved natural attack, though with that and a monk's belt there...

What is a monk's element, then? Seriously, the druid is also a "second string melee character" -- except this second string melee character is better at melee (transforming into, let's say, a lion or a brown bear) and has excellent spellcasting abilities. Seriously, its looking as though my...

I am far more worried about my character being wholly irrelevant to fights. I mean, this fight simply did not require my character's presence. Not at *all*. I am not playing this game to merely be a fancy accessory to the druid and sorcerer.

It would have been the same way with a fighter. In some ways worse because a fighter in heavy gear would have been staggering around from fight to fight -- those animals found it damn easy to charge the 100 feet from us to them (so did my monk, BTW) which is something that a fighter would not...

Let me describe the situation: I play in this weekly game that's a pretty typical D&D game. The party consists, currently, of my character, a sixth level monk who is fairly twinked out for combat, a fifth level druid, a fifth level bard and a sixth level sorcerer. The druid has summon monster...

Anyone know of a core characters class, preferably online but I'd take a published book, revolves around being a merchant?

I do. About once a game the other players give me a nasty look because I remind the DM of something that is disadvantageous to our party. Fair is fair. :D

Generally, yeah, languages play a pretty big part in my games. Communication, generally, is very important because in virtually every encounter with a sentient being there is a way to "defeat" the situation socially. So, yeah, being able to talk to the critter in question is a pretty good...