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<blockquote data-quote="Lord Pendragon" data-source="post: 1748038" data-attributes="member: 707"><p>This is very true.&nbsp; But this point begins to lead us into another, namely the general balance of the monk.&nbsp; It's my contention that a monk's lower AC (or higher cost of opportunity for a comparable AC) is intentional.&nbsp; Monks aren't meant to get AC as easily as heavily armored fighters.&nbsp; It's one of the perks of the three core classes that are archetypically heavily armored--fighters, paladins, and clerics.&nbsp; Other classes, including the monk--in theory--gain other benefits that balance out these classes' cheaper access to AC.Well, of the three classes I mentioned above, only the fighter can really get away with fewer stats.&nbsp; Both the cleric and paladin will wind up needing Str, Wis, Cha.&nbsp; Which is not to say that your point isn't a valid one, merely that it's only valid in comparison to the fighter, who gives up certain things (again, in theory <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />), to compensate.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Lord Pendragon, post: 1748038, member: 707"] This is very true. But this point begins to lead us into another, namely the general balance of the monk. It's my contention that a monk's lower AC (or higher cost of opportunity for a comparable AC) is intentional. Monks aren't meant to get AC as easily as heavily armored fighters. It's one of the perks of the three core classes that are archetypically heavily armored--fighters, paladins, and clerics. Other classes, including the monk--in theory--gain other benefits that balance out these classes' cheaper access to AC.Well, of the three classes I mentioned above, only the fighter can really get away with fewer stats. Both the cleric and paladin will wind up needing Str, Wis, Cha. Which is not to say that your point isn't a valid one, merely that it's only valid in comparison to the fighter, who gives up certain things (again, in theory :p), to compensate.:p [/QUOTE]

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