Is my 15th Level half-orc monk broken?

[BASHMAN]

Okay, I am making a 15th level half-orc monk with the following feats:

combat reflexes, power attack, improved natural attack (officially allowed by D&D 3.5 rules faq), great cleave, and blind fight.

He will also have a magic item to cast enlarge self on himself, and wears a "monk's belt", which increases his unarmed damage and AC as if he were a monk 5 levels higher.

He has an 18 strength

This means he has an unarmed damage of 4d8+4 at medium size and 6d8+5 at large size. Average damage is 22 when medium and 32 when large! Is this broken?

 

[Thanee]

Nope.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Ilium]

Nope. A 15th level character should be able to lay down some serious smack. As a monk you don't get full BAB progression, so your chance to hit will be slightly less than an equal-level fighter, but you'll get as many or more attacks.

By comparison, a 15th level fighter with a flaming greatsword and a 20 str and a couple feats dedicated to it would be doing, what, 3d6+8, but he'd be able to afford to power attack more, so his average damage would be comparable (and he'd crit more often).

 

[Question]

Pray your DM does not try to pull the "You do too much damage" card and force you to nerf your PC by either disallowing improved natural attack, the monks belt, or even disallowing enlarge person to be cast on you.

 

[BASHMAN]

Pray your DM does not try to pull the "You do too much damage" card and force you to nerf your PC by either disallowing improved natural attack, the monks belt, or even disallowing enlarge person to be cast on you.

I can see disallowing INA, but the item and spell are D&D 3.5 canon!

 

[Thanee]

And that makes them disallow-save why exactly?

Anything can be disallowed (and there certainly are a few things in the core rules, which are rather disallow-worthy).

Anyways, unless the other PCs are sub-par, there shouldn't really be a problem.

Bye
Thanee

 

[BASHMAN]

Ah, most DMs either "allow only the 3 core books" or "allow only the complete series and the core books" or "allow anything by WOTC including Dragon Magazine stuff" and there are some that allow "anything, even 3rd party publications like the quintisential series".

I think this DM falls into the any WOTC product camp. At least in the past things were that way. I have not campaigned with him in a while. He seems to have allowed other PCs to get away with a lot though, in the past.

 

[Infiniti2000]

Okay, I am making a 15th level half-orc monk with the following feats:

combat reflexes, power attack, improved natural attack (officially allowed by D&D 3.5 rules faq), great cleave, and blind fight.

You're missing cleave.

He will also have a magic item to cast enlarge self on himself,...

Where is this item from? Not that it matters, as he could just get potions of enlarge person.

Is this broken?

The whole question, seemingly, is "Is allowing INA for monks broken?"

 

[FrostedMini1337]

I'd say your a bit underpowered.

 

[Stalker0]

Agreed, that's really not that much damage for 15th level.