Comments on: Powergaming: Making a Powerful Fighter or Monk in Core 3.5 D&D

By: Ellisthion

Ellisthion — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 04:12:27 +0000

Gah, good point. I always miss this stuff. It’s probably still worth it for a decent level Fighter if you’re limited to Core, since you’ll run out of good Feat options quickly. Good suggestions about the multiclassing, too. 1 or 2 levels in Monk before going Fighter would be great.

By: Zephyulos

Zephyulos — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:57:19 +0000

I checked the SRD online, and would like to comment that Improved Unarmed Strike is actually required for Improved Grapple.

Also, why not multi-class them with each other? A few levels in Monk gives some nice abilities for the Fighter, and a couple of the feats like Improved Grapple, earlier, while improving movement speed, etc; the Monk can also benefit from the Fighter class for some extra feats.

In addition, the Bard and Druid can actually be useful. The Bard gets Use Magic Device (and extra skill-points), as well as the Inspiration which can still be used while fighting, and has access to some arcane spells unique to them, while the Druid allows usage of Druid magic wands, has some nice abilities at low levels, and gives an extra language.

Hope my comments help.

By: Ellisthion

Ellisthion — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 02:18:37 +0000

Oooh. Thanks for that. We’ve changed our blog theme since this was written, and obviously it’s messed things up.

By: Jobo

Jobo — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:46:59 +0000

Hi Duncan! I like your articles, even though I don’t play (A)D&D myself. Just one thing: The tables (for example, the ones for the feats here) are really hard to read. In my FF 3.5 they display a pale grey text on a dark green background. I can hardly manage to read them at all. Contentwise, go on!

By: Ellisthion

Ellisthion — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 09:15:38 +0000

Touche. Not sure how I missed that, duh. Thanks.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 15:59:51 +0000

if you become a monk after being a barbarian you become a fallen barbarian due to the change to lawful. you’d lose the rage per day if you became a monk.

By: Ellisthion

Ellisthion — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:10:29 +0000

Ah yes, good point, thank you. It’s still a pretty underwhelming Feat, but that is better.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:37:00 +0000

Your entry in the fighter table for the Dodge feat is incorrect. You say that it gives “+1 AC vs one attack per round”. The 3.5 PHB entry for Dodge actually says “…receive a +1 dodge bonus to Armor Class against attacks from that opponent.” That means *all* of the target’s attacks, including multiple standard attacks and attacks of opportunity from the target.