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Message: <blockquote data-quote="77IM" data-source="post: 7491600" data-attributes="member: 12377">Having played an open-hand monk to 14 (sadly, not a flying monk...) here are some of the tactics I remember most:Tanking. Our dedicated tank (a barbarian) only showed up about half the time, and the rest of the group was surprisingly squishy. It turns out you can tank decently well in a pinch. Dodge is effective if you can lockdown several enemies or hold a choke-point -- you give up your action, but if the rest of the party is primed to attack, it can be worth it. You can also use Patient Defense which uses up a ki point and your bonus action, so it's pretty expensive at 4th level. A good pattern is:Round 1. Charge in and attack once, then use Patient Defense. Multiple enemies converge on you, but you're too dodgy for most to hit.Round 2+. Stand in place and Dodge; or use a ki point to Dodge+Disengage and then run away leaving the enemies in a nice shatter or fireball radius; or use a ki point to Dodge + heal yourself using Wholeness of Body or even a healing potion. With Flight+Mobility, you have a great option that I never did: if you are engaged with 4 or fewer enemies, spend a ki point to Flurry, attack them all, and then just move away, possibly flying out of melee range (again, leaving them clumped into a nice spell radius).It's much harder than tanking with a proper tank but it can be done, and once the enemies thin out a bit you can go on the offensive.Flurry as a set-up. Open Hand gets this great thing where your Flurry hits can knock enemies prone or send them flying. If the initiative order is right, you can launch them towards melee PCs with stronger attacks, or knock them prone to give those melee PCs a better chance to hit. With your flying, I'll bet you can do this even better, by positioning behind enemies and knocking them towards your party. It works especially well with enemy spellcasters who are trying hard to stay in the back row!Stun-lock. This is a well-known tactic of monks, and not available until 5th level, but holy crap Stunning Strike is incredible. If you Flurry, you have 4 attacks, which is 4 opportunities to stun. That will blow through your ki points, so you don't want to do this every fight, but there are situations where it's super useful. Ordinarily you pile that onto one really bad enemy, but with your flight and Mobile feat, you have the option to spread it around and stun (or attempt to stun) 4 different creatures. That could be really useful if you're facing multiple spellcasters or multiple "glass cannon" enemies who have nasty attacks but low Constitution.</blockquote>

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