Pathfinder 1E Making my first Pathfinder character...

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I was invited to join in the fun with a friend's Pathfinder group next week, a chance for me and the group to "try each other on" and also for me to try out Pathfinder for the first time.

Now I need to make a character! A quick chat with my friend and I settled on the Friar Tuck / Little John archetype of a jovial mendicant of considerable girth who is surprisingly nimble and mean with a staff. He suggested I check out the monk class.

Looking over the monk, I'm a bit stumped on how best to incorporate the staff as his favored weapon. It really seems to make no difference whether his attacks are unarmed or with a staff. Am I missing something?

Any feedback about how best to design this character is appreciated :)
 

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I was invited to join in the fun with a friend's Pathfinder group next week, a chance for me and the group to "try each other on" and also for me to try out Pathfinder for the first time.

Now I need to make a character! A quick chat with my friend and I settled on the Friar Tuck / Little John archetype of a jovial mendicant of considerable girth who is surprisingly nimble and mean with a staff. He suggested I check out the monk class.

Looking over the monk, I'm a bit stumped on how best to incorporate the staff as his favored weapon. It really seems to make no difference whether his attacks are unarmed or with a staff. Am I missing something?

Any feedback about how best to design this character is appreciated :)

The Monk is actually going through a change right now. They changed Flurry of Blows to basically be Two-Weapon fighting, for now at least. The website is down right now but i would recommend going over to the Paizo website and check out the changes that were made. I play Pathfinder but I'm not too familiar with the changes that have been made.
 

Monk is experiencing the equivalent of an update patch induced bug.
Rangers can make use of a quarterstaff too( and as a bonus, gets the whole woodsman feel and some arcane abilities). Also, Friar tuck isn't that type of monk.
 

The Monk is actually going through a change right now. They changed Flurry of Blows to basically be Two-Weapon fighting, for now at least. The website is down right now but i would recommend going over to the Paizo website and check out the changes that were made. I play Pathfinder but I'm not too familiar with the changes that have been made.
Huh, what's wrong with Flurry of Blows? I'm using the Pathfinder_OGC since I don't own the book.

Monk is experiencing the equivalent of an update patch induced bug.
Rangers can make use of a quarterstaff too( and as a bonus, gets the whole woodsman feel and some arcane abilities). Also, Friar tuck isn't that type of monk.
I'm open to any ideas, but I'm not familiar with the system. How would you create a staff wielding ranger using the archetypes of Friar Tuck and Little John?
 


I'm not entirely sure...
For normal people it still works just fine, well, as well as it usually works, but I think some rules lawyers found a problem in the new errata or something and started flaming, eventually leading to mass bans on the paizo forums.
 

I'm currently playing a Monk as my first character, and for the Monk, I've found that you're much, MUCH better off fighting unarmed, especially when you hit level 4, and your unarmed damage goes up to 1d8 (1d6 for small, 2d6 for large). Fighting unarmed also means you're a bit difficult to disarm (although in this case, it seems that would be a bit too literal :P). Also, you lose Stunning fist if you're not fighting unarmed, and that's FAR too good to lose, especially as (and this may need clarification) it can be used as part of a Flurry of Blows.
 

The Monk is actually going through a change right now. They changed Flurry of Blows to basically be Two-Weapon fighting, for now at least. The website is down right now but i would recommend going over to the Paizo website and check out the changes that were made. I play Pathfinder but I'm not too familiar with the changes that have been made.

After reading this and the rest of the thread I compared the text in my dead tree book to the Paizo PRD and the Pathfinder SRD at the d20pfsrd site and they are the same (well, the Paizo site seems to actually have an omission of some words in the middle of a sentence, but I'm assuming it is a mistake and not a prelude to changes.

I did try to google this and found a thread that was locked and at least one more related to it, but I am not going to read over 500 posts to get the jist of things.

Can anyone who knows what's up tell us what the big deal is? Are they trying to make the monk suck less, change the flurry of misses or make one less mechanic in the game? Maybe all 3?
 

Not really a big deal right. You can just use it as normal really. Just be on the look out. There is SOMETHING going on with monk over at Paizo and when they DO make a new ruling, it could be for better or worse. Also, you lose nothing by having a weapon as a monk since you kicks, and pretty much most of your body, count as full unarmed strikes. You can hold a twohanded weapon and, if I'm reading it correctly, still deliver stunning fist with a HEADBUTT. Lol.
 

I see your point, marcielle, but once you progress beyond 3rd level, there is really no point to even having a weapon, as any unarmed strike will actually deal either the same or more damage at that point. If you want to use it for the first few levels, though, that's fine. Just be careful, as I believe rolling a 1 means you hit yourself. Well, at least with nunchaku :P
 

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