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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 1866726" data-attributes="member: 8158">Folks, in a thread entitled "Tell Me About Monks in Your World", exactly what kind of contribution do you think is being made by posting that you don't have them in your world? If I ask people to tell me what they think of New York, I'm pretty obviously only looking to hear from people who've been to New York. WotC's treatment of monks in their published material is pretty odd. They actually equate the eatern martial artist monk with the western mendicant friar monk. So if you go to a church of a lawful god, they typically have a few monks on staff. IMC, I use a few house rules. First off, monks and paladins don't have the standard multi-classing restriction. It's stupid and pointless and accomplishes nothing and should have been repealed in 3.5e. Secondly, monks do not inflict more dice of damage with their unarmed strikes as they gain levels. Instead, at 4th level (when they would receive their first die increase), they can add their Wis modifier (if positive) to their damage with both unarmed strikes and with special monk weapons (even ranged weapons, out to 30 feet). One of the big advantages to this rule is that it doesn't make using monk weapons a sub-optimal choice. Some monks will prefer unarmed strikes so they can make use of feats like Stunning Fist and the others in Complete Warrior that use it as a prerequisite, but it won't be a hands-down choice.</blockquote>