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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Corwin" data-source="post: 292417" data-attributes="member: 1560">Agreed.I am currently playing a half-dragon (red*) monk named Katan, with a few sorcerer levels tossed in. I'd be even better off without those sorcerer levels, but it fits the concept what with dragon-blood. You know.(*Yeah, I know... Red. It was mostly for story purposes based on campaign specific stuff. But to help balance the superiority of choosing Red, I offered to take Fire Sub-type. So I now take double damage from cold. And, I'll tell you, that has hurt on several occasions. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />)I don't outshine anyone else. But I don't suck either. And that's using the +3 ECL that used to be suggested (before the "guestimate" +5 WotC offered up in a recent Dragon Mag.).But I sometimes wish I had the extra monk levels for the higher end abilities that they get. Being 3 levels down can be annoying. Especially in situations like last session. I almost died from a prismatic spray (DM rolled poison). I failed the save and would have been dead except that I have Luck (once per day) and managed to roll well on the reroll. I wouldn't have had to worry at all if I were a human monk (Diamond Body = immune to poisons).Overall, the RP aspects are fun though. I wouldn't do it again for "power" reasons. But then, I chose it this time for the fun of it anyway. Taking lava baths and drinking alchemical fire are a few of the fun things Katan likes to do.</blockquote>

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