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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stalker0" data-source="post: 2857002" data-attributes="member: 5889">One aspect of the monk that hasn't been talked about a great deal are his bonus feats:1) Improved Trip - Knocking someone prone gives you a +4 to those many many attacks of yours, allowing them to hit more often. Also prone weakens an opponents offense against your low AC, and forces him to spend actions fixing the condition. With a +4 to trip attacks, that equivalent of a +8 strength, meaning your going to win against even burly fighters and barbarians most of the time.Now if the monk is fighting big creatures all of the time, this is weak. But against npcs and the like, the monk can do very well.2) Improved Disarm - Pretty much only a good idea if your going quarterstaff monk, but can be good with this weapon. You get a +4 for a Two handed weapon and another +4 for the feat, so even with a medium BAB your looking good against fighters without two handed weapons. 3) Deflect Arrows - The best thing about this feat is it turns a hit into a miss, making it very good against archers.4) Stunning Fist - As many have noted, the save DC on this isn't that great, you shouldn't expect a creature to fail very often. But hey, its a free action to use, and you get a fair number of them. A 5th level monk gets it 5 times per day. And one stun means an automatic disarm, and a whole round of attacks avoided. We all know how much damage that can save.5) Improved Grapple - A +4 to grapple checks counters the BAB gap until high levels, flurry allows you more grapple attacks, and the fact you negate teh AOO for grappling makes the monk a decent grappler.Now, I still think even with these feats the monk is a little weak in the melee department, however...this is an important part of the monks abilities that cannot be overlooked.</blockquote>

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