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Can I knock myself prone? Do I have to spend any movement to do so?
I am building a Drunken Master monk, and came across this subclass feature:
Leap to Your Feet. When you're prone, you can stand up by spending 5 feet of movement, rather than half your speed.
Since ...
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Does the speed bonus from the monk feature Unarmored Movement stack with the bonus from the barbarian feature Fast Movement?
At level 5, barbarians get a bonus of +10 feet to their speed while not wearing heavy armor from Fast Movement.
At level 2 and increasing as they level, monks get a bonus to their speed when not ...
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Can Monk Unarmored Movement walk/run through the rain?
At lvl 9 the Monk class gains this ability
[...you gain the ability to move along vertical surfaces and across
liquids on Your Turn without Falling during the move]
Now my question is, if it can ...
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Can a Way of Astral Self Monk use wisdom related scores for jumping?
I have several questions on the interactions between the Arms of Astral Self and the Jumping mechanics.
According to the 3rd level feature, Arms of the Astral Self:
While the spectral arms are ...
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Does the monk's Step of the Wind ability allow them to double their jump distance without using Dash or Disengage as a bonus action?
I was playing a game of D&D 5e the other day and got into a disagreement with the DM. I have a monk character that made a long jump off a wall using Step of the Wind. The plan was to do Flurry of ...
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What is the formula for Unarmored Movement's bonus?
I'm trying to plug in an equation for a monk's unarmored movement in DiceCloud, so that I don't have to change the bonus value whenever it changes. I had a formula, but lost it. Does anyone know what ...
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Does Monk Unarmored Movement work on snow?
Monk's Unarmored Movement says that at 9th level
[...] you gain the ability to move along vertical surfaces and across liquids on Your Turn without Falling during the move.
Is there anything in the ...
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Does a monk's Step of the Wind ki feature affect High Jumps as well, or just Long Jumps?
At 2nd level, monks can spend a ki point to use the Step of the Wind option of the Ki feature (emphasis mine):
You can spend 1 ki point to take the Disengage or Dash action as a bonus action on your ...
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How does Monks' Improved Unarmored Movement work out of combat?
At 9th level, Monks gain an improvement of their Unarmored Movement feature:
At 9th level, you gain the ability to move along vertical surfaces and
across liquids on your turn without falling ...
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Does the monk's Step of the Wind feature activate the benefit of the Mobile feat?
The Mobile feat (PHB, p. 168) says:
When you use the Dash action, difficult terrain doesn't cost you extra movement on that turn
The monk's Step of the Wind feature says:
You can spend 1 ki ...
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Do Monks gain the 9th level Unarmored Movement benefit when wearing armor or using a shield?
Unarmored Movement, a monk feature, says...
Starting at 2nd level, your speed increases by 10 feet while you are not wearing armor or wielding a shield. This bonus increases when you reach certain ...
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How do I determine if the rules for a long jump or high jump are applicable for Monks?
Inspired by this question: What is the longest distance a 13th-level monk can jump while attacking on the same turn?
At 9th level, Monks get an improvement to the Unarmored Movement feature:
At ...
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What is the longest distance a 13th-level monk can jump while attacking on the same turn?
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During last session in a game that I GM, the party got ambushed by NPC monks leaping from the trees. They were hiding high up in very big Sawtooth Oak Trees, then jumped in a horizontal ...
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How high can my monk jump?
My monk has a movement of 50ft and a +4 strength bonus (18 STR). My computation for my maximum jump is start of 10 ft.
I arrive at a high jump of 14 ft + remaining movement which is rounded down ...
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How does a monk jump as far as they want?
In the Order of the Stick webcomic,
This was back when OOTS still occasionally made jabs at the D&D 3.5 rules. Roy describes her behavior in strip #406 page 2 panel 10 like this:
It's like ...
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Would it be balanced to houserule that 9th-level monks can use Unarmored Movement to stay on vertical surfaces or on liquids without falling?
So right I've seen some discussion on here about the monk's Unarmored Movement feature and how it should be interpreted, and there are a lot of different ways. The main thing I've seen is that the ...
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How is movement calculated when running up walls as a monk?
Picture this circumstance. I am a 5 foot tall level 9 Wood Elf Monk with Mobile. I have 60 feet of speed per turn, via:
35 feet from Wood Elf feature
10 feet from the Mobile feat
15 feet from being ...
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Can monks move between their Attack action and bonus-action unarmed strike?
Every question I have seen includes flurry of blows, or readied actions, or whatever. But I am talking about level 1 monk, using just an attack action, and just the martial arts feature. You can ...
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What counts as "during the move" for the monk's Unarmored Movement?
Unarmored Movement states:
At 9th level, you gain the ability to move along vertical surfaces and across liquids on your turn without falling during the move.
But it's unclear to me what is "...
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Can a 9th-level multiclassed monk move along vertical surfaces while wearing armor?
I have design for a character, that is multiclassed into monk. I'm interesting the "wall running" ability that a monk has.
However, I'm uncertain about what this means. If I'm wearing armor, do I ...
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Does a monk with Unarmored movement still have to make strength checks to "run"/"climb" a wall?
If a Level 9 (or higher) monk, with the Unarmored Movement feature, wanted to climb a 1000-ft sheer cliff, would they have to make strength checks every turn to see if they continue climbing, fall, or ...
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Does a Monk's Unarmed Movement Improvement allow vertically running on surfaces?
A monk's Unarmored Movement improvement states that the monk can now run along vertical surfaces on their turn.
Is such a "wall run" restricted to horizontal movement, or can the monk also run ...
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Does a monk's Unarmored Movement speed increase apply to the fly speed gained from a Fly spell?
A monk's Unarmored Movement class feature increases the monks speed by 10 feet at level 2, and further at higher levels. According to this tweet by Jeremy Crawford, this stacks with an Aarakocra monk'...
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If a power references your Speed, can it be your Flight Speed?
My player has a 4e Pixie Monk and his Daily power says he can shift his speed (which on his sheet says Speed 4 Flight 8) and I'm not sure if the card is specific to Speed or can he use his Flight ...
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Are Dwarves able to use armor and still gain the unarmored movement bonus for Monk?
I am fairly certain the answer is no but I just wanted to confirm.
In the PHB p.20 dwarves have the feature:
Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feel. Your
speed is not reduced by wearing heavy ...
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Stacking Speed Boosts? [duplicate]
I was posted an interesting situation from one of the players in my game. He stated that he noticed since he is a Tabaxi\Monk and once he levels up 5 times in Monk Magic to get the Longstrider Ability ...
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Does a Monk's Unarmored Movement Affect Aarakocra flying speed?
I have a player who is planning a monk aarakocra, and he asked me this: Unarmored Movement just says "speed". Does that mean all speed for each movement type, or just ground speed?
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How far can a 9th level monk move along a vertical surfaces and across liquids without falling?
The monk class feature Unarmored Movement says:
At 9th level, you gain the ability to move along vertical surfaces and across liquids on your turn without falling during the move.
I am looking for ...
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Does the Jump spell stack with the monk's Step of the Wind ki ability?
Inspired by this question, I wonder about the Monk feature (PHB p. 78):
Step of the Wind
... Your jump distance is doubled for the turn
And the jump spell (PHB p.254):
Jump
... the creature's jump ...
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Can monk move between his extra and bonus attacks?
There are clean rules for moving between actions and between attacks granted by those action (e.g. a fighter with four attacks can move between them freely).
But the monk's Flurry of Blows feature is ...
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How much movement does a monk need to run up and stand on top of a 50-foot wall?
Whilst perusing the 5e PHB for the first time, I came across the Monk. And just like every other class, after I finished reading all of the Monk Features, I thought to myself WOW This class is Amazing,...
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Do you provoke opportunity attacks when flying?
Moving away from a square which is within threatening reach of an enemy, provokes OA if one does not shift, is pushed/pulled/slid or teleports.
Further, so far I know, squares are 3d, as indicated ...
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