Monk equipment?

[isoChron]

I play a human monk Level 2 and he took martial weapon proficiency glaive.

He also bought a MW glaive. I did it mostly for flavor reason (glaive is called naginata) but I was surprised how much damage you can dish out with only 14 Str and a two handed reach weapon. He threatens all squares from 10 ft to 5 ft (unarmed strike works with legs, too) and the damage is quite high. I recommend combat reflexes as bonus feat. I made the mistake to chose Deflect arrows... .

He also has 2 smokesticks, a sunrod and 20 shuriken. I think he performs better than expected, at least now at low levels.

The only weak point is his AC of 14.
BYE

 

[ph0rk]

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[Legildur]

With your bonus 6th level monk feat, pick up Improved Trip, not Improved Disarm, because your fists are light weapons and take a penalty compared to most weapons opponents will have anyway.

Improved Disarm can be a viable feat if the monk uses a staff. A 6th level monk with a meager 12 Str would have a +13 Disarm check [+4 2 handed wpn, +4 disarm feat, +4 BAB, +1 Str] with no reciprocal chance to disarm on a failed attempt (unlike trip attempts). If he were enthused enough to take EWP spiked chain, he could raise that to +15.

And this doesn't even begin to look at the bonuses that could accrue through Weapon Focus, use of magical weapons or the Enlarge spell.

Edit: correction to disarm check calculation. Forgot to include feat bonus.

 

[TracerBullet42]

Well...I ended up rolling up a swashbuckler character instead. But thanks for the suggestions! It'll make for a nice reference thread!