D&D General Is Grappler feat mandatory/broken for monks?

[TorgoTheWhite]

I nerfed it as far as the max movement you can drag an opponent with it... but that is mostly mechanical feeling of having a lithe dex-based character suddenly forcefully drag big brutes around a battlefield. Honestly, it feels to me like there should be that differentiation on Str based grapplers versus ScarJo types

 

[Lazybones]

I have a house rule that if you drag someone through a hazard, like spike growth, you take the damage as well. That, combined with carrying capacity limits (the 2024 monks I've seen so far have been Dex builds rather than Strength), tends to limit the shenanigans you can get up to with grappling. I know some people ignore carrying capacity as a rule, but while I don't enforce it religiously I tend to keep an eye on it as a limiting factor (playing in a VTT makes this much easier). Otherwise I'm fine with letter a player push the limits on what the 2024 rules allow when it comes to grappling.