digital insider: Monk in PH3, playtest in May

[TerraDave]

Randy B is gone, digital insider is now gone, and the visualizer and virtual tabletop are also gone?

 

[mudbunny]

Randy B is gone, digital insider is now gone, and the visualizer and virtual tabletop are also gone?

The rest of the Digital Tools (Dungeon builder, Character Visualizer, Game table) have not been cancelled. There has been no announcement of it.

WotC has not announced what tool they will be working on next. What they are doing is taking the time to look at where the various tools are in their development cycle, decide which one should go out next, and work on improving the tools that are already out.

 

[w_earle_wheeler]

Assassins, familiars and monks!

And with the PHB containing half-orcs and gnomes... wow, I almost have enough rules from 3 or 4 books to replicate what I had in my 1e and 3e PHBs!

 

[garyh]

Assassins, familiars and monks!

And with the PHB containing half-orcs and gnomes... wow, I almost have enough rules from 3 or 4 books to replicate what I had in my 1e and 3e PHBs!

Plus, you'll have warlords, warlocks, dragonborn, eladrin, tieflings, shifters, goliaths, wardens, avengers, invokers, shamans, devas, and whatever else is in PHB3! Pretty cool, huh?

 

[JoeGKushner]

Plus, you'll have warlords, warlocks, dragonborn, eladrin, tieflings, shifters, goliaths, wardens, avengers, invokers, shamans, devas, and whatever else is in PHB3! Pretty cool, huh?

I was thinking similiar thoughts. Once core != current core.

 

[garyh]

I was thinking similiar thoughts. Once core != current core.

Indeed. And assuming PHB3 is 5 races and 8 classes, like PHB2, if someone buys PHB1-2-3, and only insists upon only using the eight 3.5 PHB classes and eleven 3.5 PHB classes, instead of all 18 races and 24 classes they've paid for, well, that's their own problem.

 

[Gunpowder]

*looks into the crystal ball*

I foresee 3 months of speculation on the monk's role and power source.

Role: Punches things in the face.
Power Source: Punches from the Punch Dimension

/end bad humor

 

[mhacdebhandia]

I'm going against the grain on a few things here.

Monk = Martial Striker.

It can't be a martial class. Look at the box on page 54 of the Player's Handbook:

Other Power Sources: Additional power sources and techniques provide characters of different classes with powers and abilities. These will appear in future Player’s Handbook volumes. For example, barbarians and druids draw on the primal forces of nature, monks harness the power of their soul energy (or ki), and psions call upon the mind to generate psionic powers. Future power sources include elemental, ki, primal, psionic, and shadow.​

So, you know, we can argue about the monk's role - though I think striker is likely.

 

[garyh]

Role: Punches things in the face.
Power Source: Punches from the Punch Dimension

/end bad humor

The Punch Dimension is right next door to the Chuck Norris Roundhouse Kick Demi-Plane.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Role: Punches things in the face.
Power Source: Punches from the Punch Dimension

/end bad humor

My god! It's the Chuck Norris Power Source!