Improved Unarmed Strike + Grappling

[Pinotage]

People who are pinned are not helpless. They are denied their Dex to AC against any and all attacks, however (except those of other grapplers).

Yes, forgot about that one. In any event, having a grappler and a rogue in the party is a good combination.

Pinotage

 

[ARandomGod]

I can't think of any reason NOT to take a level of monk. (Well, what race is this fighter, that might be a reason). Sure, you lose a BAB, but only one, and you get so much for it. I'd personally take up to four levels of monk, you can do that with only losing a single BAB, and you get so very much for that one BAB expendature.

 

[Patryn of Elvenshae]

Yes, forgot about that one. In any event, having a grappler and a rogue in the party is a good combination.

Heck yeah it is!

My pirate - Ftr / Rog - and the party's Shifter Barbarian love it when our warforged monk makes something an easy target.

 

[Christian]

I can't think of any reason NOT to take a level of monk.

Because he doesn't want to be Lawful Good, and that's the only alignment that satisfies the class and campaign alignment restrictions.

 

[ARandomGod]

Because he doesn't want to be Lawful Good, and that's the only alignment that satisfies the class and campaign alignment restrictions.

A pretty good reason. However, allow me to retort.

I'm getting that the campaign alignment restrictions say you have to be good. Ok, so good you are. Now as a monk you have to be Lawful. Of course. However, you don't have to STAY lawful. In fact, that's one of the best roll playing excuses to stop being a monk that I can imagine. You tried for a while, you really really did. You obeyed their "rules". But eventually you simply had to quit. In other words, you take a few lower level monk levels, and then move on, and with no need to be overly lawful.

 

[Taloras]

The campaign is set up along the line of a set of schools.....opperated by several churches. All characters were trained by these schools. Selune, Mystra, Tymora, Torm, and Lathander set these schools up to combat Cyric, Bane, and Shar. All characters are selected at birth and trained up to their teenage years. I suppose I -could- go with a monk who was trained by the Selunites(Sun Soul), but found the order too oppressive. But that would require the DMs approval. Hmm....

 

[ARandomGod]

I suppose I -could- go with a monk who was trained by the Selunites(Sun Soul), but found the order too oppressive. But that would require the DMs approval. Hmm....

True. DM approval. What level are you starting at? If you're starting low enough you can just start as a monk and no approval needed. ^_^


But approval is always wanted anyhow.

 

[Taloras]

Currently the game is 3rd level(-almost- 4th). and I refuse to play Lawful Good. So id need to be an ex-monk. If I didnt have the problem with lawful good, then -maybe- id go with that. But since we cant be LN, and I find LG to be worse than LE/CE.....

 

[IcyCool]

Currently the game is 3rd level(-almost- 4th). and I refuse to play Lawful Good. So id need to be an ex-monk. If I didnt have the problem with lawful good, then -maybe- id go with that. But since we cant be LN, and I find LG to be worse than LE/CE.....

You could start as a 3rd-level ex-monk, if your GM is ok with it.

Out of curiousity, why do you refuse to play lawful good?

 

[Taloras]

I refuse to play LG because its antithetical to my personal beliefs. No, im not an anarchist. Its just every example of LG that ive seen has nearly driven me up the wall. I personally am about as close to CG as you can get....ill help others when i can, but i have problems with authority. and my mind just wont work in a LG mode. Oddly enough, it WILL work in a CE/LE mode. Its just LG that bugs me.