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I'm disappointed in the Favored Soul. While I think the extra spells from the original UA Favored Soul could have a been a little powerful, limiting the spells to a single domain(deity) was very fitting. I dislike opening it to all the cleric spells. Plus, compared to the Sorcerer spell, I...

That's true that it is a ruling and not a rules area, but at the same time, you're having to give a lot to make the jump even possible, including a higher then normal strength score then what your typical ranger will have (at least in my experience, they tend toward Dex much more often then...

Also, just because your movement speed is at 5, you can still jump normally, correct? Standing long jump lets you move 8 feet with 16 str. Cast jump on yourself (doesn't even require concentration) and you can hop 24 feet from place to place for a full minute. By your second ASI in str, you're...

I see no problem with letting a large character use an appropriately sized large weapon given the parameters for monster weapons. A large sized great axe should do 2d12+str. Now, whether the character can maneuver it around while not transformed is another question. I suppose you could get...

Ireally like these two classes, more then I think most of the UAs that have come out. A few things struck me after reading them though. The two subclasses are way too similar to one another, with many over lapping abilities that seem to differentiate themselves more with fluff then with...

I agree with most of this, I posted something similar about 3 pages back, including a weapons table. Making more uniform damage tables for the weapons means more uses of weapons for flavor and RPing and not just because that's what you do the most damage with.

That's not what I was saying or the impression I had at all. I realized all of that, and I believe said so multiple times. The difference is you were focusing on the unarmed strikes, or lack there of, and I was focusing on the shiny new weapons the Monk can use effectively.

Thank you for recognizing that I recognized that. That's exactly what I was trying to say.

I don't think we're actually saying different things? I agree with you on all of that. The only ability that is changed for being a Kensei Tradition is the third martial arts ability. You lose that. It also affects Flurry of Blows, as we both said. The rest of the monk martial arts stays the...

I didn't go through all your math there point by point, but did you include Sharpen the Blade extra damage in the extra attack for Polearm Master? It looks like you did for the other regular attacks. I will say, the most exciting part of all of this for me is being able to use a Naginata as...

The Path of the Kensei ability in the UA gives you the ability to still use your Dex or Str for Kensie weapons, and you can still choose to use the Monk weapon die, so you keep all those. Its only the unarmed strike bonus action and Flurry of Blows that are affected, as I mentioned earlier.

I've only seen your bonus action unarmed attack and Flurry of blows being affected by this, and I would imagine both of those was intentional. Nothing says you can't still use those abilities, you just can't be wielding a Kensei weapon when you do it. The monk is the only class that gets to...

Fair points. I hadn't really thought about the spear/quarterstaff since I used a pair of daggers last Monk I played. I also appreciate the clarification on the pummel. I do wish it was with each attack, or at least worded a little differently. My main point was still that I feel it gives...

I really don't see all the issues people are having with the Kensei tradition. Yes, you can't use them as Monk weapons, but you get other benefits. I see it all as being maybe less attacks a turn, for more damage. At level 5, instead of 3 attacks at 1d6+4, you could be doing two attacks at...

The very limited number of arcane arrows for the Arcane Archer really bugs me. If we were going up against the big bad final boss and I only got to fire one or two arcane arrows for the entire fight, I think I'd be pretty upset. Other then those two arrows, I'm no different then some random guy...

I've always thought there could be two separate, better options or changes, or maybe a combination of the two. First option, I am not a fan of the weapon table for a few things. I think the differences for the Simple vs Martial weapons should just be a single die category. I think this has...