Ki Strikes

[Sueki Suezo]

Can we just give Monks the ability to strike with their Unarmed Attacks as if they were Magic/Lawful/Adamantine without making them have to hold onto the last point of their Ki Pool? Monks should be using their Ki Pool to do cool things in combat, and this rule prevents them from leveraging their special abilities and attacks as well as they could.

[Iziak]

Sueki Suezo wrote:

Can we just give Monks the ability to strike with their Unarmed Attacks as if they were Magic/Lawful/Adamantine without making them have to hold onto the last point of their Ki Pool? Monks should be using their Ki Pool to do cool things in combat, and this rule prevents them from leveraging their special abilities and attacks as well as they could.

I agree completely that it would be better from a mechanical standpoint, but it might be weird to have Ki Strike not use the Ki Pool in some way from the flavor perspective.

[Honorable Rogue]

Just have their ki pool start at level 2 (by which point the special abilites of other classes have already started) and then add ki strike at 4th and so on. The monk can use the ki pool for a couple of levels before having glowing fists of fury.

That way it looks like the pool grows into a generic ability that's always available.

Cheers

[Me'mori]

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