Or you take a race with str bonus such as half-orc. Dwarf might work as well. Gnome would do but is suboptimal.Diirk said:With 16s in str, con, wis and 12 in dex, you're up to 34 points already; not exactly doable in a 28 point buy game (which is what alot of people play in), or even a 32 point buy. And given that you don't exactly get to cherry pick stats if you roll them randomly, I'd suggest its the extreme minority of games where such stats are viable.
Unless you meant before stat increasing items, of course. But then the stats you quoted as horrible are only 3 +2 items away from being what you want.
mvincent said:I typically have a cleric cast air-walk on monks during adventures. Of course: the jump skill for monks tends to be extremely high anyway.
Quartz said:IMMHO Flurry=TWF, so why bother with the quarterstaff? Power Attack can apply to your fists.
From the special section under the description for Power Attack in the SRD (my emphasis):Jack99 said:Arent unarmed attacks always considered as light weapons? meaning you cant PA with them?
You can’t add the bonus from Power Attack to the damage dealt with a light weapon (except with unarmed strikes or natural weapon attacks), even though the penalty on attack rolls still applies.
Humanaut said:I just played a short game of EtCR, and a buddy of mine made a goliath monk with improved natural attack... went grapple route and was a beast! Only lost 1 level to his race and Powerful Build made the day. He had lots of fun with him.