Monk

NWN Requirements

• Alignment Restrictions: Any lawful

Arelith Changes

• Spot, Perform and Ride added as class skills.

• Tongue of the Sun and Moon: Each Monk level counts as 2 Lore ranks when it comes to understanding an unlearned language.

• Monk Weapon Proficiency: This feat allows effective use of club, dagger, handaxe, light crossbow, heavy crossbow, nagitata, quarterstaff, sai, shuriken, kama, katana, sling and wakizashi.

• Monk UBAB Weapons: The club, quarterstaff, naginata, kama, sai and shuriken benefit from the monk unarmed base attack bonus (UBAB).

[See https://nwn.fandom.com/wiki/Unarmed_base_attack_bonus for UBAB progression.]

• Monk non-UBAB Weapons: All monk proficiency melee weapons that do not benefit from the UBAB (except Wakizashi) now obtain:
  • Attack Bonus
    • 23: +1 AB
    • 25: +2 AB
    • 28: +3 AB
  • Damage
    • 20: +1 Dmg
    • 24: +2 Dmg
    • 28: +3 Dmg

• Monk progression:
  • Lvl 2: gains feat - Weapon Focus: Unarmed
  • Lvl 3: gains feat - Monk Speed (Grants a +10% bonus to movement speed at lvls 3, 6, 9, 12, and 15, capping at +50%)
  • Lvl 7: gains feat - Wholeness of Body (10 min CD; heals damage = Monk lvl x WIS Mod; removes debuffs per Restoration spell)
  • Lvl 12: gains feat - Uncanny Dodge
  • Lvl 12: gains Spell Resistance = 10 + Monk lvls, capping at 32 SR
  • Lvl 18: gains feat - Empty Body (5 min CD)
  • Lvl 20: gains feat - Whirlwind Attack
  • Lvl 25: gains feat - Improved Whirlwind Attack

• Combat Mastery [Grants scaling Unarmed AB & Damage bonuses as well as Armed Damage]

Combat Mastery

lvl	Unarmed Ab	Unarmed Dmg	Armed Dmg
10	0	+1	0
13	+1	+1	0
16	+1	+2	0
18	+2	+2	0
20	+2	+3	+1
24	+3	+3	+2
28	+5	+6	+3

• Additional Selectable Feats:
  • Ki Strike +4: Grants an additional +1 AB and +2 damage to Unarmed attacks
  • Ki Strike +5: Grants an additional +1 AB (for a total of 2) and +2 damage to Unarmed attacks (for a total of 4)
  • Weapon Focus: Katana = grants an AB bonus that stacks with equipment at lvls 23 = +1; 25 = +2; 28 = +3
  • Epic Spell Resistance = Each Epic SR feat increases the cap by +2

External Links

Information about default NWN class are available on NWNWiki.

Monk Orders of the Realms by Lee Nelson on Candlekeep - for roleplay inspiration

Seekers of wisdom - article on CoA forum comparing roleplay of 3 classes: clerics, druids and monks.