![]() (It’s not too soon to remove this restriction.) Greatclub is a non-starter – you’re proficient, but it has the Two-Handed property, so you can’t use your Dex for attack rolls with it.The Slow effect of Club and Javelin isn’t likely to be useful to Monks – its most common use case is when enemies are fleeing, and Monks have no trouble running down enemies.That’s one point of average damage at the lowest levels, and no help from 5 th level on. Quarterstaff and Spear have Flex as their Mastery.The die scaling is also different, as it is d6 to d12 rather than d4 to d10. There’s some concept that Weapon Mastery makes up for this, but… for a variety of reasons this mostly won’t play out. Martial Arts works the same as in 5e.14 except that you can’t use your Martial Arts die for weapon damage anymore, only for Unarmed Strikes.You need a mechanic that specifically says “This weapon is a Simple Weapon for you” to build something like XGTE’s Kensei – we haven’t seen them recategorize weapons that way before now, but that’s the situation they’ve created. It means that multiclassing or spending feats to pick up more weapon proficiencies does nothing for you. “Monk weapons” isn’t a rules term anymore – it’s just “Simple Weapons” instead.It’s definitely not a power balance question, because for Monks the shortsword is mechanically just a handaxe you can’t throw and that lacks the Light property (d6 damage, Vex, Finesse gets you the same effects as Dextrous Attacks). Monks no longer have Proficiency with shortswords, for whatever reason. No change to Hit Die (d8), saves, skills, or tools.On the other, many kinds of magic items are of no use to Monks (though they’ve long been one of the few classes that make great use of spears), without having many new items that are clearly for them. On one hand, new moves for Monk subclasses are always competing with the incredible power and low cost of Stunning Strike. The 5e.14 Monk has always been a tough class for content design. ![]() PH Playtest 6: Bard, Cleric, Druid, Monk Monk Weird, Monks are usually better at Initiative than that! As you undoubtedly know, this is the first draft of a new Monk we’ve seen in One D&D playtesting other than the Artificer, which won’t be in the 2024 Player’s Handbook, it’s the only class still on its first round. ![]()
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