Monk Feat: Armored Monk (from 3.5e SRE)

[Certon]

Armored Monk

You have been initiated into the ancient prancing crab style, which trains acrobatic maneuvers while armored.

Prerequisite: Flurry of Blows, Armor Proficiency (Light)
Benefit: You can use all monk class features even while wearing light armor. Yet, if you do so, your monk bonus speed and your Wisdom bonus to AC are halved.
Special: You can take this feat as a monk bonus feat at 1st, 2nd or 6th level. You do not need to fulfill the prerequisites to take it as a bonus feat, but note that this would mean suffering armor check penalty to attacks.

[TeacherSyn]

Armored Monk

You have been initiated into the ancient prancing crab style, which trains acrobatic maneuvers while armored.

Prerequisite: Flurry of Blows, Armor Proficiency (Light)
Benefit: You can use all monk class features even while wearing light armor. Yet, if you do so, your monk bonus speed and your Wisdom bonus to AC are halved.
Special: You can take this feat as a monk bonus feat at 1st, 2nd or 6th level. You do not need to fulfill the prerequisites to take it as a bonus feat, but note that this would mean suffering armor check penalty to attacks.

Good luck seeing that one in DDO.

Not to be snide, but pen-and-paper Monk concepts are harder to implement since DDO has to keep certain rules in place for class balance. A Monk already has great non-armor defenses and can often gain high AC in addition to these. Placing armor on them in DDO would simply be redundant, require a lot of developer backbending to make code that trades the advantages of the armor for something else a Monk is good at, and the result is simply unsettling, in my opinion. That tradeoff of speed and WIS bonus form the heart of the best unarmed Monk's power, fast stunning, so that defense would be a great offensive fail.

Now the introduction of some of the fighting styles in the p-n-p version, complete with mating them to Monk stances as an optional ability, would be interesting. A Drunken style for Ocean might increase attack power, to make up an example.

[Certon]

Good luck seeing that one in DDO.

Not to be snide, but pen-and-paper Monk concepts are harder to implement since DDO has to keep certain rules in place for class balance. A Monk already has great non-armor defenses and can often gain high AC in addition to these. Placing armor on them in DDO would simply be redundant, require a lot of developer backbending to make code that trades the advantages of the armor for something else a Monk is good at, and the result is simply unsettling, in my opinion. That tradeoff of speed and WIS bonus form the heart of the best unarmed Monk's power, fast stunning, so that defense would be a great offensive fail.

Now the introduction of some of the fighting styles in the p-n-p version, complete with mating them to Monk stances as an optional ability, would be interesting. A Drunken style for Ocean might increase attack power, to make up an example.

If it is anything I've learned on the forum, it is to never take anything personally.

Yeah, I'd love to see this in DDO, but I understand it's a pipe dream.

More variety in stances is cool and something I'd like to see--