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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gizzard" data-source="post: 160252" data-attributes="member: 527">I took Combat Reflexes and Improved Initiative, hoping to be able to Tumble quickly into battle and lay out death and destruction upon my foes before they could react.  It hasnt really worked out, mainly because the Monk is not a massive damage dealer.The only times I've gotten to use Combat Reflexes was on a bunch of foes that were already fleeing; too worried about other things to try and avoid Monk AoAs.  Boy did I show them!  Well, not really.  But I punched them a couple times as they ran by.Another thing I didnt realize when I rolled up this character (at the beginning of 3E) is how very few Feats a Monk gets.  A Fighter gets more Feats than he can shake a stick at; a Monk gets 5 by level 9 if he takes advantage of being human.  For things like Spring Attack, you have to carefully consider the Feat progression.  Plan your Feats out and you can have Spring Attack at level 6.  Do what I did and you cant get Spring Attack until level 9.  On a tangent: I dont see how a Monk can have the 13 INT for Expertise. You need DEX and WIS first of all, then STR and CON since you are going to be doing some combat.  INT and CHA become your dump stats.  If you are dumping a 13, well, I want you to roll up my character next time.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /></blockquote>

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