Talk:Way of the Beggar (5e Subclass)

Any balancing comments? -malevoiy

Flavor

This is not really a beggar monk, this is an underwhelming defense monk with the ability to increase four of your stats, potentially negating any fear of Ability Score loss for those four stats. For real though, none of the mechanics point you in the direction of anything resembling a beggar, who could have a lot of cool abilities involving but certainly not limited to:

• urban environments (because dude, what happens when Urchins grow up and master their skills?)
• stealth and intrigue (because no one pays attention to the homeless guy)
• improvised weapons (probably improvised armor, too!)
• making alliances with other disparaged peoples (because sometimes all some people need is a cause and a friend)

But anyways, my apologies that no one else has had the time to chow through this yet and give you a second opinion and I would definitely either change the fluff or the crunch. I'll check in again in the future to see how it turns out! This idea has boatloads of potential, so go nuts, man! --TheStoryEnthusiast (talk) 01:13, 18 March 2017 (UTC)

Flavor is always worth a discussion, but I don't think the archetype is underpowered. Well someone unknown edited the "Exalted Attack" and nullified its offensive power, as I just saw in the logfile. In my opinion the overall flavor is not bad, the path is freely inspired by the 3.5 monk version from the book of exalted deeds - so I just kept to those advantages and modified them as best as I could. I like your ideas overall and think they would be very interesting, maybe when I have the time I try to make another version of the archetype, but atm I'm not playing too much D&D anyways. Thanks for the opinion! -malevoiy