You gain the following benefits while you are unarmed or wielding only monk weapons and you aren’t wearing armor or wielding a shield: You can use Dexterity instead of Strength for the attack and damage rolls of your unarmed strikes and monk weapons. You can roll a d4 in place of the normal damage of your unarmed strike or monk weapon.

Monk Level Feature 3rd Path of the Kensei (2 weapons) 6th One with the Blade, Path of the Kensei (3 weapons) 11th Sharpen the Blade, Path of the Kensei (4 weapons) 17th Unerring Accuracy, Path of the Kensei (5 weapons)

Oct 24, 2024 · Unfortunately, using d4 weapons was pretty crap. Now, with a one level dip into monk, I can turn those d4s into d6s and I am equal to any other character DW light weapons. As for pure monks, I am more likely to play a monk with weapons simply because I have zero interest in characters that don't use them.

Nov 15, 2019 · Monk weapons are short swords and simple weapons that don't have heavy or two handed properties. And you are proficient with short swords and simple weapons. Now of course it's easy to assume that that means that only those weapons are monk weapons but wizard and sorcerer, if you gain proficiency in armor you can cast spells in that armor.

Sep 13, 2021 · Bracers of defense are a classic monk item in D&D fifth edition and for good reason. The monk's Unarmored Defense and Martial Arts class features don't allow you to don armor or use a shield. This limits your ability to improve your AC outside of Ability Score Improvements. Bracers of defense are one way to get around these restrictions.

Jul 8, 2024 · All Simple Melee weapons are now considered Monk weapons, as well as Martial Melee weapons with the Light property. Can now make an Unarmed Strike as a Bonus Action, even if you don't take the Attack action on your turn. Martial Arts die starts at 1d6 and goes up to 1d12. Can use Dexterity in place of Strength when you Grapple or Shove. Monk's ...

Jun 21, 2019 · Posts Monk 101: Way of the Open Hand. In the Suggested Build section, you talk about taking finesse weapons (as they can replace strength with dexterity for attack/damage rolls), but the monk’s Martial Arts feature notes that any monk weapon (shortswords and any simple melee weapons that don’t have the two-handed or heavy property) innately allows …

Mar 22, 2017 · Best monk weapon is called fists.Hah. Jokes aside, there's probably a couple weapons that monks can decently use on the compendium, such as the Quarterstaff, but it would definitely be interesting to see more versatile stuff such as …

Mar 12, 2017 · A quick calculation tells me that a Monk with 24 Might, Savage Attack, Sneak Attack and Spirit of Decay does 34.74 - 46.11 damage with his Fists and 29.92 - 43.52 with a Legendary Bittercut. On top of this, Fists are a fast weapon whereas Bittercut is average, which leads to Fists attacking betwe...

Aug 2, 2017 · I'm a couple days from starting a game playing with a homebrewed Drunken Fist Monk. With the rules were using, at level 3 you gain proficiency with improvised weapons and improvised weapons are now considered as monk weapons. In addition, creatures have disadvantage on Opportunity Attacks against you.