monk Archives - Tribality https://www.tribality.com/tag/monk/ D&D / Role Playing Fri, 28 Jul 2023 00:32:48 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.tribality.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-logo-2020-icon@2x-32x32.jpg monk Archives - Tribality https://www.tribality.com/tag/monk/ 32 32 UA 2023 – Player’s Handbook 6 Playtest Breakdown, Part Four https://www.tribality.com/2023/07/27/ua-2023-players-handbook-6-playtest-breakdown-part-four/ https://www.tribality.com/2023/07/27/ua-2023-players-handbook-6-playtest-breakdown-part-four/#respond Fri, 28 Jul 2023 00:32:48 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=34400 Okay, we’re on to talking about Monks. 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. Weird, Monks are usually better at Initiative than that! PH Playtest 6: Bard, Cleric, Druid, Monk Monk The 5e.14 Monk has always been a tough class for content design. On one hand, new moves for Monk […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2023/07/27/ua-2023-players-handbook-6-playtest-breakdown-part-four/feed/ 0 Arcadia Issue 15 Breakdown https://www.tribality.com/2022/04/20/arcadia-issue-15-breakdown/ https://www.tribality.com/2022/04/20/arcadia-issue-15-breakdown/#respond Wed, 20 Apr 2022 22:00:35 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=33410 All art belongs to MCDM It’s a new month, and while we keep waiting for the Flee Mortals! monster book to come, let’s enjoy some Arcadia content. This one offers a pretty great collection of articles that go a bit towards the creepy side of things. Nevertheless, in this letter from the editor, James confirmed that they don’t actually attempt to give a theme to every Arcadia, it just accidentally happens. So… I guess I will stop looking for a […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2022/04/20/arcadia-issue-15-breakdown/feed/ 0 Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything Breakdown, Part Four https://www.tribality.com/2021/02/04/tashas-cauldron-of-everything-breakdown-part-four/ https://www.tribality.com/2021/02/04/tashas-cauldron-of-everything-breakdown-part-four/#respond Thu, 04 Feb 2021 13:00:25 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=32100 It’s been several weeks, but today I’m back to continue this series, in which we dig into Tasha’s Cauldron and find out just what she put in that soup. Monk’s subclasses, while common in Rentonese cuisine, are not often to be found in Washington, D.C. (I’m also covering paladins.) Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four Monk There are four new monk features, all of them extra stuff (that is, no replacements). Dedicated Weapon at 2nd level might represent the […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2021/02/04/tashas-cauldron-of-everything-breakdown-part-four/feed/ 0 Unearthed Arcana 2020: Subclasses, Part Five Breakdown https://www.tribality.com/2020/10/26/unearthed-arcana-2020-subclasses-part-five-breakdown/ https://www.tribality.com/2020/10/26/unearthed-arcana-2020-subclasses-part-five-breakdown/#respond Mon, 26 Oct 2020 22:58:00 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=31617 There aren’t a lot of things that could pull me away from my current freelancing work to get a weekly article out – sorry, beloved readers! – but Unearthed Arcana was that thing. Surprise! Today we’re getting two new subclasses: the Way of the Ascendant Dragon monk and the Drakewarden ranger conclave. (I will give up on “conclave” as the subclass name for rangers when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.) Oh, and this should all be post-Tasha […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2020/10/26/unearthed-arcana-2020-subclasses-part-five-breakdown/feed/ 0 Way of the Pugilist – Monk Tradition for D&D 5e https://www.tribality.com/2020/04/23/way-of-the-pugilist-monk-tradition-for-dd-5e/ https://www.tribality.com/2020/04/23/way-of-the-pugilist-monk-tradition-for-dd-5e/#respond Thu, 23 Apr 2020 21:16:16 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=29976 Monks channel ki, the magical energy that flows through all living bodies. In combination with martial training, ki can be harnessed to far exceed the capabilities of their physical body. I thought it would be interesting to create an old-timey boxer who fights with their bare-knuckles rather than gloves or a monk weapon, channeling ki to outfight and outlast their opponents. This is a playtest ready subclass for monks that is available for everyone to try out. Let us know […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2020/04/23/way-of-the-pugilist-monk-tradition-for-dd-5e/feed/ 0 Help your players create the best character for them https://www.tribality.com/2020/02/26/help-your-players-create-the-best-character-for-them/ https://www.tribality.com/2020/02/26/help-your-players-create-the-best-character-for-them/#respond Wed, 26 Feb 2020 14:00:37 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=29493 Thumbnail image from Netflix’s The Witcher series Do you run D&D for players that have already played one or more times? Are they more of a min-maxer kind and look more on creating a powerful character than in their dreamed one? I think I have pretty much what you are looking for then. It’s not new modifications to existing classes and subclasses, but more of a way to summon your inner game designer and help create the best for your […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2020/02/26/help-your-players-create-the-best-character-for-them/feed/ 0 UA 2020: Subclasses, Part 1 Breakdown https://www.tribality.com/2020/01/15/ua-2020-subclasses-part-1-breakdown/ https://www.tribality.com/2020/01/15/ua-2020-subclasses-part-1-breakdown/#respond Wed, 15 Jan 2020 06:15:46 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=29305 New year, new Unearthed Arcana – this time bringing us four new subclasses. We have the barbarian Path of the Beast, the monk Way of Mercy, the paladin Oath of the Watchers, and the warlock Noble Genie Patron. I am excited to dive into this! Just, uh, be aware that I will be throwing in some jokes along the way. The jokes don’t mean I don’t love this material – it’s not intended as mockery. Barbarian: Path of the Beast […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2020/01/15/ua-2020-subclasses-part-1-breakdown/feed/ 0 UA: Class Feature Variants Breakdown, Part One https://www.tribality.com/2019/11/04/ua-class-feature-variants-breakdown-part-one/ https://www.tribality.com/2019/11/04/ua-class-feature-variants-breakdown-part-one/#respond Tue, 05 Nov 2019 04:11:33 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=28927 I don’t want to alarm you, but this week’s UA is absolutely huge in both its actual volume (13 pages) and its impact (it touches every class in the Player’s Handbook to one degree or another). The article title suggests that it’ll be mostly replacing features (“variants”), but in actuality it’s mostly direct enhancements to features. These are almost universally quality-of-life improvements and efforts to solve for what the designers have learned about their game in ongoing development. It’s definitely […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2019/11/04/ua-class-feature-variants-breakdown-part-one/feed/ 0 Unearthed Arcana: Barbarian and Monk Breakdown https://www.tribality.com/2019/08/15/unearthed-arcana-barbarian-and-monk-breakdown/ https://www.tribality.com/2019/08/15/unearthed-arcana-barbarian-and-monk-breakdown/#respond Thu, 15 Aug 2019 22:46:49 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=28441 A new UA article! On a Thursday? Don’t these monsters know that this does strange things to my writing schedule for the week? They don’t? Weird. Anyway. Two new subclasses, one for barbarians and one for monks. The Path of the Wild Soul What if Wild Magic sorcery… but a barbarian? Makes sense to me – if you’re raging too much to control magic, let’s try some uncontrolled magic. The early flavor text mentions the Feywild, but that’s the only […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2019/08/15/unearthed-arcana-barbarian-and-monk-breakdown/feed/ 0 Tribality Publishing – Ki Unleashed https://www.tribality.com/2019/06/12/tribality-publishing-ki-unleashed/ https://www.tribality.com/2019/06/12/tribality-publishing-ki-unleashed/#respond Wed, 12 Jun 2019 15:27:08 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=27967 The Myriad Pathways of Ki We have a new publication on DriveThruRPG today. This is the fourteenth product we have released: Ki Unleashed, written by Brandes Stoddard. Ki is so much more than a monk’s personal reservoir of power. Its nature defies definition and comprehension. For some, it reconnects the dead with the living. Others use it to armor themselves against the powers of dream and nightmare or emulate the instinct and ferocity of wild animals. The monastic traditions herein describe […]

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