Jeremy
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Best Core Rules monk? As in most powerful melee monk you can make with only the three core rule books? Then I'd say a Half-Fiend Troll Monk.
You mean the most powerful in melee PC monk? I'd say probably a half-dragon human monk followed closely by a half-celestial human monk.
If you mean the most useful PHB monk in a party setting in and outside of combat? No such animal. Make up a character concept that you like, a personality, a history, and relations and make any mechanical combination you can think of that would represent that fictional person. Because no monk is the "best".
My 2 cents completely unrelated to the preceding rules debates.
You mean the most powerful in melee PC monk? I'd say probably a half-dragon human monk followed closely by a half-celestial human monk.
If you mean the most useful PHB monk in a party setting in and outside of combat? No such animal. Make up a character concept that you like, a personality, a history, and relations and make any mechanical combination you can think of that would represent that fictional person. Because no monk is the "best".
My 2 cents completely unrelated to the preceding rules debates.