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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerlyHemlock" data-source="post: 6612862" data-attributes="member: 6787650">Here's a thought:They're offensively similar, but defensively quite different. Here's the thing about defenses: you can either use them passively (Slow Fall whenever someone happens to throw you off a cliff) or proactively (deliberately fight in slippery slidey terrain with lots of cliffs to fall off of/push people off of). Did you ever see the movie Batman Begins? Offensively, Batman is kind of samey, right? All he ever does is punch people. But he seeks out dark places with lots of vertical surfaces so he can separate his enemies and attack from unexpected angles.If you want monk passive abilities to be fun, you need to seek out a place with lots of shadows and vertical surfaces to run up/fall down. (Poison gasses are nice too.) Spider Man territory, or Lord of the Rings/Hobbit territory even. On a flat featureless plain like the Mongolian steppes, the only passive ability in play will be monk movement, and it can be negated by enemies simply climbing on a horse. Fight in the mountains instead, and in broken terrain crisscrossed with canyons.D&D combat tends to be 2D, perhaps because it's hard to represent contour lines on a grid map, but IMO it's more fun if it's 3D-ish. I've been trying to take a page from video game design and use more Legos recently to represent slopes/mounds/roofs/etc. in my "levels", because a good area should be fun to navigate, and vertical movement is fun!/Tangent</blockquote>

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