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Message: <blockquote data-quote="master arminas" data-source="post: 5759044" data-attributes="member: 9287">True, the static nature of the damage does penalize large monks:  but how many player character races are large?  Really, all it prevents is a medium-sized monk from being the recipient of an enlarge person spell to boost their damage output (they would still get the size bonus to Strength and the 10' reach, so it's not a useless spell by any means!).  But it does narrow the gap between small-sized and medium-sized monks.Agreed.  I meant for this text  in the unarmed strike description to prevent just that, but perhaps I need to make it a little bit clearer.Oops.  I meant to remove that bit of text from the ki pool.  It is now fixed.Done!I wanted to show some sort of progression towards tongues, starting with speak with animals and then moving to speak with plants, and finally getting speak with anything.  But I see your point.  I've added magical beasts at the same level as plants (which greatly increases the number of creatures a monk can talk with, because really, how many plant creatures are there?).Incorporated many of your suggestions on the capstone.  I added the axiomatic-type damage bonuses because I wanted some method to boost the damage potential a bit, but not against everything.  Since monks have to be lawful, axiomatic seemed a far better way to go than holy/unholy, and which one would a lawful neutral monk use anyway?  It is a +2 weapon property that they getting for free (on top of a +5 weapon by 20th level), but it is also broken down into stages (1d6 here, another 1d6 there, oh look, bonus damage on criticals over here!).  I did tone down the bonus damage on crits, however.Hope that answers your questions, Rampant.</blockquote>

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