Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cloudgatherer" data-source="post: 330654" data-attributes="member: 66">While creating 26th level adventures for the <a href="http://enworld.cyberstreet.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=22114" target="_blank">Epic Level Adventure in the ELH</a>, my fellow PC was a monk who wanted to use his fists.  Unfortunately, monks get a very limited number of feats, and spending all of them on Ki Strike improvements didn't sound like a winner to him.  So the DM allowed "Gloves of butt-kicking" which allowed the monk to strike as if he had a +6 enhancement bonus on his fists.Is this really how the Epic Level Monk has to do this?  Even at non-epic levels, the monk has this nifty ability called ki strike, yet on its own is very weak and does nearly nothing for the monk at almost any given level.Why is this ability here if no one uses it? Does the ability have a chance of working on its own?  I tend to view the monk as a prestige class, but when a DMG arcane archer can get up to +10 arrows before hitting level 30 as a class feature, and the monk can only strike at an effect +3, I have to wonder.....</blockquote>