What's Known about Monks?

[shawnvw]

I'd like to be ready when Monks become available. I'll be reading my Player's Handbook; where (especially on these forums) can I read more about how Monks will be implemented?

[TheForum_man]

hmm...well, i am still somewhat new to this game, only three months online, but i would like to know more. I would assume that someone else will comment this with more info, but i wanna know when i will start having front flippin karate choppin halflings in my party. Of course that is a sterotype. Of course someone is gonna be a regular ol funny guy and make a dwarf. Or a warforged. Point is, i don't know much about the monk, even when it is coming out, and i would like to know more.

[Falco_Easts]

Best spot for info so far is last weeks WDA.
http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php...74#post1675474

Should be out late May.

[Angelus_dead]

I'd like to be ready when Monks become available. I'll be reading my Player's Handbook; where (especially on these forums) can I read more about how Monks will be implemented?

Here is a thread with details from the character sheets of an example DDO monk from over a month ago. Of course, Turbine has had time to change monks since then- and they needed to, because the example shown needed a lot of work.

Since that demonstration, the only announced monk change has been the addition of Spell Resistance as per the D&D rules.

[Lorien_the_First_One]

I'd like to be ready when Monks become available. I'll be reading my Player's Handbook; where (especially on these forums) can I read more about how Monks will be implemented?

Throw out the PH, from what we've seen so far I'm guessing the monks won't look like D&D monks...

[Invalid_86]

Throw out the PH, from what we've seen so far I'm guessing the monks won't look like D&D monks...

Kinda the opposite of what should be happening in a D&D game, no?

[Lorien_the_First_One]

Kinda the opposite of what should be happening in a D&D game, no?

Yup... but when one of the highlighted items is a bar that gives you a powerup when you are hit or hit someone...that screams cheesy video game, not anything from D&D. Too bad really, this game gets less and less D&D with every mod.

[Nigel137]

I refuse to ever roll a warforged for that very reason. I don't remember any robots in my pen and paper games!

I also have an inner aversion to the titan, a huge robot and a laser cannon! Good grief. Hey Turbine: these are not improvements to the game.

[Uska]

I refuse to ever roll a warforged for that very reason. I don't remember any robots in my pen and paper games!

I also have an inner aversion to the titan, a huge robot and a laser cannon! Good grief. Hey Turbine: these are not improvements to the game.

They arent robots and are very much in pen and paper now, good grief...Eberron is much more orignal and trumps the realms by far

[MrCow]

I don't remember any robots in my pen and paper games!

Where would you put Inevitables, a sentient construct that was in the first 3.5 monster manual (such as the Marut)?

[Twerpp]

I refuse to ever roll a warforged for that very reason. I don't remember any robots in my pen and paper games!

I also have an inner aversion to the titan, a huge robot and a laser cannon! Good grief. Hey Turbine: these are not improvements to the game.

Dude, D&D changes...you gotta get used to it. 4th Ed anyone?

[Invalid_86]

Yup... but when one of the highlighted items is a bar that gives you a powerup when you are hit or hit someone...that screams cheesy video game, not anything from D&D. Too bad really, this game gets less and less D&D with every mod.

That was what I was thinking when I saw the teaser video- cheesy video game monk that has little to do with DnD monks.

Granted we haven't seen them yet, and it may blow us away but...........considering how well other deviations from the core rules have gone I won't get my hopes up, and sadly when we do get previews of it on Risia it will be too late to make a real change to them if they are off the deep end.