Search results

1e Monk Actually, in 1E, I found them to be pretty good damage dealers (if their to hits were a bit lower than a Fighter or subclass of the Fighter). At low levels (kinda like 3.0) you needed to ignore your natural attacks, and use polearms instead(okay- in 3.0, you needed to use Monk Weapons)...

Heck, going by 3.0 rules would be silly; that would give the Wizard far too many advantages and the Monk several nasty disadvantages. If, for example, the wizard was insufficiently spelled up, start out with Haste, Time Stop. That's 4-10 more spells that the Wizard can get off in one round...

Note that Antimagic fields also don't go through Prismatic Wall/Sphere

Mobility is great. However, a Monk's mobility dosen't really compare well to: 1) A high-level wizard. 2) A high-level Sorcerer. 3) A Cleric with the Travel Domain. (starting around LV 7 or so) 4) A Druid (at almost any level, really). 5) a high-level Bard. Also, mobility dosen't win duels...

I'm not seeing Ranger (although I agree with you on Rogue & Bard - though a smart Bard given an action would Shadow Walk her/his body out of this combat, hire/charm a bunch of nice "friends", and then return).

1) Wizard, 100% (assuiming both are played and preped well). Even assuming that the Monk wins init, the Wizard would have an appropriate contingency to deal with that. 2) Wizard, 100% (assuming core). The Monk is simply too far to take out the Wizard round 1. Going beyond core, it might drop to...

CR is a rough measure of the resources that a party of 4 disperately-classed PCs of the same level (at one time, C/W/F/R was standard) would take to defeat that creature. For example, if the party and the creature were the same level, the party should need to expend roughly 20% of their...

Even worse, a high-level Wizard can dramatically effect a Monk's mobility without affecting his/her own. Minor points: 1) After getting Teleport, I'd be unlikely to prepare Dimension Door. 2) The Monk will still take damage on a made save with Horrid Wilting. It's the SR check that could be...

Seconded. The only way a well-played core LV 20 Monk would win against a well-played core LV 20 Wizard is is the Monk could take the Wizard out before the Wizard got a chance to act (keeping the Wizard stunned is a theoretical way to do so). Barring sneaking up on the Wizard and coup-de-gracing...

Magic system "This is another good chapter but still too small. Magic could really have been expanded on here." I think that the magic system presented here is underdeveloped. In the event that you believe that it's just my opinion, look through these boards (and the ones accessible through...

Technical inaccuracy "The Mastery Feats are feats that are taken multiple times to gain addition abilities. Like Improved critical when taken twice gives a +4 bonus to confirm, the third time increases a weapons critical modifier, and the fourth automatically confirms all critical hits." This...

Nah, then I'd go Sorcerer or Wizard- Clerics don't have all the spells, and those two classes have less of an overlap than a Druid and a Cleric. Now, in a C/C/C/W party, I'd agree with you.

Exactly my point. I was trying to run him as a front-liner (he was doing pretty well through LV 3, which is when he was "forcably" retired). I think that through a number of the previous posts, weaknesses that I was not aware of have been exposed in that build- I think that some of those...

When I played a (3.0) Bard at low levels, I'd always console myself by thinking that one point of damage from each attack by each party member was due to my PC(due to inspire courage). Interestingly enough, if one counted that way (and added in the damage done directly by the bard), my PC was...

Even if that's true, that's not a reason to launch a personal attack. Please attack the position, not the person. Frankly, I think that the facts support your position well enough on their own. It's quite possible, for example, that the only competant player in IamIan's group played a Monk, so...

Fair enough. I think I just took the DMG Barbarian of equivalent level, then pumped the items for PC wealth. I was going more for identical tactics than intelligent ones. Frankly, in the first combat example, an intelligently played Nightwing could trash either character.

Note that the Dracinomicon both has multiple races with nice SRs and a feat that lets you pump your SR :-)

No. However, it makes useful (buying items vs special abilities) comparisons more difficult. If it were closer (like Vow of Poverty) it would be more useful. The combat examples suggests that it costs far less than 400,000 to get equivalent overall combat power, even if it would cost more for...

I wouldn't. We had a Monk with fairly low HP, and sub-par AC that survived up to about LV 13, when 2 AOOs at once killed that character. Spring Attack + low damage output + evasion + good saves can keep survivability (if not effectiveness) quite high, as long as the rest of the party is more...

Hrm... vs evil depends on the campaign, although a survey of the alignments in the Monster Manual supports your claim. It was a rare combat at high levels where we didn't have room. Combat that didn't require flying or had ease of access to the opponent is another matter, though. The main...