Monk
Flavor: “You fight well, but without discipline and focus, you will fall.”
Key Abilities: Dexterity, Strength, Wisdom
Implements: Ki focuses, weapons with which you\'re proficient
Armor Proficiencies: Cloth
Weapon Proficiencies: Club, dagger, monk unarmed strike, quarterstaff, shuriken, sling, spear
Bonus to Defense: +1 Fortitude, +1 Reflex, +1 Will
Hit Points at 1st Level: 12+ Constitution Score
Hit Points per Level Gained: 5
Healing Surges: 7+ Constitution Modifier
Trained Skills: From the class skills list below, choose 4 trained skills at 1st level.
Class Skills: Acrobatics (Dex), Athletics (Str), Diplomacy (Cha), Endurance (Con), Heal (Wis), Insight (Wis), Perception (Wis), Religion (Int), Stealth (Dex), Thievery (Dex)
Build Options: Centered Breath Monk, Iron Soul Monk, Stone Fist Monk
_PARSED_CLASS_FEATURE: Monastic Tradition, Unarmed Combatant, Unarmored Defense
Role: Striker. You typically eschew weapons in favor of unarmed attacks, and you avoid armor in favor of maneuverability and agility. Few can match your speed and poise on the battlefield. Your powers are more than simple attacks; they are complex forms that allow you to strike and move with unmatched grace. You lean toward controller as a secondary role.
Implement: Monks usually channel their psionic energy through an item called a ki focus, which is a wooden practice weapon, prayer beads, a manual of lore, or some other object a monk studies or uses during training or meditation. After you attune yourself to a ki focus, you can use it as an implement when it is on your person (see the “Ki Focuses” sidebar).
When you wear or hold your ki focus, you can add its enhancement bonus to the attack rolls and the damage rolls of monk powers and monk paragon path powers that have the implement keyword. You can also add its enhancement bonus to the attack rolls and the damage rolls of weapon attacks you make using a weapon with which you\'re proficient.
You can also use a weapon with which you\'re proficient as an implement. When wielding the weapon as an implement, the weapon\'s characteristics?proficiency bonus, damage die, and weapon properties like defensive or high crit?are irrelevant to your implement powers.
If you have both a magic ki focus and a magic weapon, you choose before you use an attack power whether to draw on the magic of the ki focus or the weapon. Your choice determines which enhancement bonus, critical hit effects, and magic item properties and powers you can apply to that power. You can\'t, for example, use the enhancement bonus of your ki focus and the critical hit effect of your magic weapon with the same attack.
Short Description: Channeling psionic energy within yourself, you fortify your body and sharpen your mind. |