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Can a rogue/Kensei monk use Sneak Attack with a Kensei weapon?
The 3rd-level feature of the UA Kensei Monk subclass, Path of the Kensei, reads as follows:
You gain proficiency with three martial weapons of your choice. A martial weapon is considered a kensei ...
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Can an Astral Self Monk/Stars Druid apply the dragon starry form to grapples? [duplicate]
Arms of the Astral Self
While the spectral arms are present, you gain the following benefits:
You can use your Wisdom modifier in place of your Strength modifier when making Strength checks and ...
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Does a Monk gain benefits from taking a level in Fighter and choosing Unarmed Fighting from Tasha's?
The Unarmed Fighting style from Tasha's states:
Your unarmed strikes can deal bludgeoning damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier. If you strike
with two free hands, the d6 becomes a d8. When ...
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How is the Soul Knife Rogue's Bonus action attack affected by a multiclass with Monk?
The Soul Knife Rogue has a feature called Psychic Blades, which includes this ability:
After you attack with the blade, you can make a melee or ranged weapon attack with a second psychic blade as a ...
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Can an 8th level Monk/Barbarian (Path of the beast) really make 5 attacks per turn?
In Tasha‘s Cauldron of Everything, WotC released a new Primal Path for the babarian, the "Path of the Beast" which has the following rage feature:
Until the rage ends, you manifest a ...
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Is Stumbling Feint a misprint?
Luce Bri is a human fighter, who decided to take the Martial Artist archetype dedication.
This means Luce doesn't have access to Flurry of Blows, as it's only available if Luce instead takes the Monk ...
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Can a Tabaxi's Feline Agility be used with the Haste spell's doubled speed?
A friend of mine played a one-shot and they were all told to make 20th-level characters. He made an 18th level monk tabaxi with 2 levels in Rogue. He tried to make his character as fast as possible. ...
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Does the Blood Hunter's Crimson Rite work with the Monk's unarmed strikes?
I want to make a level 2 monk that multi-classed into blood hunter for 1 level.
If I did that, would I be able to use crimson rite on my body, and have my unarmed strikes be 2d4 + my dex modifier? ...
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What interactions apply to a Monk/Druid Multiclass when attacking in wildshape?
The Setup
Moon Druid: 2nd Level
Monk: 6th Level
Wildshaped as: Brown Bear
The wildshape rules state:
You retain the benefit of any features from your class, race, or other source and can use them if ...
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If I multiclass my unarmed monk into rogue, which archetype is best suited for unarmed combat?
Goal: Battlefield controller able to zip around stunning casters and offering help to Assassin/fighter and Barbarian/fighter melee.
The strategy I plan on using is having my Monk run to the back and ...
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Is it possible for a multiclassed monk/rogue to use Stunning Strike and Sneak Attack on the same attack, before making an extra attack?
I've made a character that is going to eventually put 17 levels into Monk's Way of the Shadow and 3 levels into Rogue's Assassin.
I was looking at some of the abilities I get for attacking, such as ...
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Optimizing a Monk/Druid for healing, close combat, and casting (in order) [closed]
Ability scores: 18, 16, 14, 12, 10, 8
Race: Human Variant
Feats: 2 bonus
Level: 8
Background: Sailor or hermit
Magic Items: 1 of what could be 1500 gp in value.
Due to my inability to have any ...
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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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Can a multiclassed barbarian/Sun Soul monk make the ranged spell attack from the Radiant Sun Bolt feature while raging?
While raging, a Barbarian cannot cast spells.
The Way of the Sun Soul monk's level 3 feature, Radiant Sun Bolt (Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide, p. 131), enables to make ranged spell attacks.
Can a ...
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Does a Sacred Fist stack Monk for Unarmed Strike?
The Warpriest archetype Sacred Fist gains Unarmed Strike as follows:
At 1st level, a sacred fist gains Improved Unarmed Strike as a bonus feat. He uses his warpriest levels as monk levels for ...
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Can a monk/druid use Flurry of Blows while in wild shape? [duplicate]
In D&D 5e, can a monk/druid use the monk ability Flurry of Blows in wild shape?
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Does the Dueling Fighting Style damage bonus apply to unarmed strikes, made by a monk, who is multiclassed into fighter?
At the moment I have a level 5 monk, and I am thinking about putting one level into fighter to gain the dueling fighting style. Since unarmed strikes count as melee weapons for the purpose of that ...
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How to maximize Monk DPR?
I tacked the question above at the end of this question, but realised that it's probably best to ask in a separate post altogether.
My current strategy for maxing Monk DPR is to take 3 levels of ...
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How does Monk damage combine with other sources?
Are the following damage calculations correct for a L17 Monk/3 Ranger (20 Dex) with Dueling, Horde Breaker, and wielding a monk weapon:
Standard attack: 3d10 + 4 (from dueling) + 15 (Dex mod) + [to ...
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Does evasion from multiple sources via multiclassing stack?
I'm making a rogue/monk ninja character for a campaign a friend is running and at latter levels I will have taken evasion from both the rogue and the monk. Would evasion take effect twice on a failed ...
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Can a Monk utilize touch based cantrips with their Unarmed Attacks?
While preparing for my group's first 5e game I was looking at the different classes and stumbled on a question I couldn't answer. For this example I will use druid as the class that the monk multi-...
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While using Wild Shape, do I use Unarmored Defense or the creature's Armor Class?
I have a multi-classed Monk/Druid, and let's say I wild shape into a Giant Eagle.
Will I have an AC of 13 (specified in creature statistics), or will I have an AC of 15 (10 + Dex (+3) + Wis (+2))?
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Can I throw my hands to spite my enemies?
Here's an odd question a player brought up to me about D&D 4e. I was curious on your thoughts. Barbarians can take the feat Hurl Weapon:
You can use any one-handed off-hand weapon as a heavy ...
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How can I roleplay multiclassing to explain new class features?
A nice broad question to set the scene
I'm fairly new to roleplaying and I'm struggling with a valid reasons for both why and how a character would multiclass into another class independently - that ...
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Monk 4 + 1 level full BAB Options
So, my goal here is to have my character hit the Fist of the Forest Prestige class by 6 from a Monk start. This class requires a +4 BAB to start out. This means if I stick 100% monk I won't get that ...
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How to decide which of my intended classes to start as when multiclassing in D&D 5e?
I'm putting together a Shadow Monk/Assassin Rogue character concept for a new game of D&D 5e but I have little experience with multi-classing. So, what should I consider when deciding which class ...
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How do Prestige class levels stack with base class levels?
About to prestige my monk in the Psionic Fist class. The only part that I am confused on is with how the "Monk Abilities" class feature stacks with my base Monk class.
To my understanding it says ...
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Is there a feat to let monks multi-class as spellcasters without losing monk progression?
Feats like Ascetic Hunter or Ascetic Rogue allow a monk to multi-class with other martial classes. Is there a feat to allow a monk to freely multi-class with a spellcaster class? I'm looking ...
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