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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EulerIdentity" data-source="post: 7311185" data-attributes="member: 6929192"><p>What Leatherhead is saying is that getting sneak attack damage as a rogue requires you to use either a finesse weapon or a ranged weapon.  A monk's fists are neither, so when you're punching and kicking things as a monk, those hits cannot do sneak attack damage even if you also have rogue levels.  It's painful to survive on the meagre supply of Ki points you get at low levels, and that makes the rogue's Cunning Action very tempting, but it's better to tough it out and stick with the pure monk build.  Mobile is extremely good for a monk, as it enables the ideal monk attack style, which is also the style you describe, namely running it, landing a few punches, then running away.  You want to make full use of your super-human movement speed and you're not a tank, so standing adjacent to your target from one round to the next isn't generally a good idea, unless your target is an archer or some sort of caster with weak melee attacks.</p></blockquote><p></p>