When you hit a target with a kensei weapon, you can spend 1 ki point to cause the weapon to deal extra damage to the target equal to your Martial Arts die. You can use this feature only once on each of your turns.
Do monk weapons use martial arts die?
Martial Arts You can use Dexterity instead of Strength for the attack and damage rolls of your unarmed strikes and monk weapons. This die changes as you gain monk levels, as shown in the Martial Arts column of the Monk table.
Can a Monk use a battle AXE?
Monks don’t have proficiency in Martial Weapons, which a Greataxe is. Therefore, without multiclassing or taking a Feat to gain proficiency, you would be unable to add your Proficiency Bonus to attack rolls with that weapon.
Do monks get martial weapons?
No, they cannot, for a lot of reasons. First, Glaives are a martial weapon; that invalidates it immediately. Glaives also have the Heavy weapon property which makes them ineligible to be a Monk weapon.
What do monk weapons do in way of the Kensei?
Monk weapons get Finesse, get their damage dice scaled to the same level as your Martial Arts dice, and can activate the bonus action of Martial Arts. Those are all huge buffs for a lot of martial weapons, and so we should look at weapons in that way.
What does a Kensei do in way of the Kensei?
In this system, that stays the same… But much less impressively. 5E’s Kensei is a defensive archetype that allows the monk to enter the ranged field without problem. By widening the monk’s options for using Monk weapons, the Kensei also hopes to increase the damage done… But somewhat fails to do so for reasons we’ll get into later.
Which is the best martial archetype for a monk?
Dipping into fighter will give you a Fighting Style, Action Surge, and a martial archetype. You get your choice of Fighting Style at level one. Dueling is probably the best fit for a traditional monk, since it gives you a +2 to damage when you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand if the other is unarmed.
Which is the best multiclass for a monk?
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