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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8050328" data-attributes="member: 6704184">Once every few rounds. Big deal.Actual baseline damage is about 2d8+8 per round, corrected for d20 swing, which the monk does at-will just like anyone else. The rogue does more on a hit because a miss hurts their output more, and everyone else (Including the monk) spends something to go past that. Maybe not the fighter, but they don’t get the third attack action attack until 11.So, spending whatever resource they’re spending to put a d6 on each of those d6s or d8s, on top of whatever their subclass does, is a perfectly good use of a bonus action.Unless it’s a battle where there are only creatures that will go down in 1 round (a boring, unchallenging, fight) then there are good uses of it. That rogue is in serious trouble at my table, if that’s their strategy. They’re absolutely gonna need Uncanny Dodge. Both of you, and some other folks, seem to value ranged combat much too highly, as well. Do your DMs not include spellcasters, archers, flyers, and slippery skirmishers, in your battles? I’d consider any fight where the ranged characters are safe to be either an intentionally easy fight, or a fight that I failed to design well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 8050328, member: 6704184"] Once every few rounds. Big deal. [I]Actual [/I]baseline damage is about 2d8+8 per round, corrected for d20 swing, which the monk does at-will just like anyone else. The rogue does more on a hit because a miss hurts their output more, and everyone else (Including the monk) spends [I]something to go past that. [/I]Maybe not the fighter, but they don’t get the third attack action attack until 11. So, spending whatever resource they’re spending to put a d6 on each of those d6s or d8s, on top of whatever their subclass does, is a perfectly good use of a bonus action. Unless it’s a battle where there are only creatures that will go down in 1 round (a boring, unchallenging, fight) then there are good uses of it. That rogue is in serious trouble at my table, if that’s their strategy. They’re absolutely gonna need Uncanny Dodge. Both of you, and some other folks, seem to value ranged combat much too highly, as well. Do your DMs not include spellcasters, archers, flyers, and slippery skirmishers, in your battles? I’d consider any fight where the ranged characters are safe to be either an intentionally easy fight, or a fight that I failed to design well. [/QUOTE]

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