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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8215503" data-attributes="member: 6704184"><p>So, there is a very easy to use baseline for balance comparison. Like most classes have. Okay?</p><p></p><p>How do any of those things not fit with the base class? You absolutely could make monk subclasses that do those things, and some of them are <em>in</em> the base class. Bob and Weave is just the Dodge Action, especially when taken as a bonus action by spending 1 ki. </p><p></p><p>A power kick would just be a mechanic similar to the barbarian's reckless attack, or one where you spend a bonus action and 1 ki to just add 2d8 damage to an unarmed attack made as part of the attack action. Or less bonus damage, and they must save or be moved away from you 5ft and fall prone. Hadokens are just a multi-ki cost action ranged attack that deals force damage. Nothing about that is remotely contradictory to the base class. Fire blasts...dude. Sun Soul monk. Make it fire instead of radiant, and it's right there. Suplexes are just an unarmed strike while you have someone grappled. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This isn't more specific. You've given no information by naming some people that could easily be monks as is, and whatever a krillin is.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 8215503, member: 6704184"] So, there is a very easy to use baseline for balance comparison. Like most classes have. Okay? How do any of those things not fit with the base class? You absolutely could make monk subclasses that do those things, and some of them are [I]in[/I] the base class. Bob and Weave is just the Dodge Action, especially when taken as a bonus action by spending 1 ki. A power kick would just be a mechanic similar to the barbarian's reckless attack, or one where you spend a bonus action and 1 ki to just add 2d8 damage to an unarmed attack made as part of the attack action. Or less bonus damage, and they must save or be moved away from you 5ft and fall prone. Hadokens are just a multi-ki cost action ranged attack that deals force damage. Nothing about that is remotely contradictory to the base class. Fire blasts...dude. Sun Soul monk. Make it fire instead of radiant, and it's right there. Suplexes are just an unarmed strike while you have someone grappled. This isn't more specific. You've given no information by naming some people that could easily be monks as is, and whatever a krillin is. [/QUOTE]
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