Talk:Monk, Regenerating Ki variant (5e Class)

About the necessity of this being a class

Sup dude. Although i like the new features introduced, i'm puzzled on why this should be a class in on itself. Why just don't make the Regenerating Ki a variant class feature (like those introduced in Tasha's), since this monk has all the other characteristics of the regular monk class? Anastacio (talk) 18:58, 12 December 2021 (MST)

The change to how ki works more or less changes how the entire class plays, from a meta perspective. Since you're not worrying about saving ki points for the next encounter, it's more about choosing using a monk ability this turn or saving them for the next turn. Kind of 'waiting for the right moment to strike' flavor. It's a simple but fundamental change to the class' action economy and core feature, and I guess to me it just made more sense to have it as a 'variant class' more than an optional feature or subclass. Especially since some of the ki point costs had to be adjusted, both to make Stunning Strike harder to spam, and to lower the cost of anything that used more than 6 or 8 ki points so the abilities aren't unreachable. It would be weird to have in the rest of the class, "This feature costs this many ki points, unless you're using the regenerating ki optional feature, then it costs this much." That was my thought process, at least. Maybe there's a better way to approach it that I didn't think of. --69.154.146.92 18:25, 14 December 2021 (MST)

Oh, now i see. It was a lack of perception on my part, then. Either way, good job with the ki regeneration idea! Is good to see the monk being reworked! Anastacio (talk) 18:39, 14 December 2021 (MST)