Upgrade your account to a Community Supporter account and remove most of the site ads.
Enchanted Trinkets Complete--a hardcover book containing over 500 magic items for your D&D games!

Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Janx" data-source="post: 1698954" data-attributes="member: 8835">Well, in my game, the monk's been saving everybody's arses in the last 2 games.  Serious kill factor.  And this is a 4th level party, no magic weapons or armor.  No buffs.Party content was:2nd level mage5th level rogue5th level monk4th level clericSwap out the mage for a 4th level paladin in some games (complicated story).  The monk has been doing very well.  Would a straight fighter or barbarian do even better?  probably.  But he's had some good scenes and he's definitely playable.We're doing 3e rules (not 3.5) and the monk don't suck.  As a note, when we ran Flurry of Blows through the calculator, it came out to be a better deal.As we figured it, the monk had a +4 attack with his fist for 1d6Versus an AC 15 enemy, he needs an 11 to do 3.5 damageWith Flurry of Blows, same enemy (2 attacks at +2 to-hit each for same 1d6):13 to do 3.5 AND13 to do 3.5Statistacally that comes out to:11 for 3.5 = 1.75 damage average per round (50% chance of hit)math was: (21-11)/20*3.513 for 3.5 PLUS 13 for 3.5 = 2.8 damage per round (40% chance of hit each)math was: (21-13)/20*3.5*2So under those conditions, it always paid to do Flurry of Blows.  Strength bonuses don't really change anything.  In the end, the math abstracts to you do 10% less damage than average, but then you double it, how can that not be a good deal?Not sure how 3.5 chaned the Flurry of Blows.  Nor have I compared it to other feats or high level multi-attacks.  But at low level, it was a pretty sweet deal.</blockquote>

Verification