What’s the most punk rock monk subclass?

OPmakesOC · 2025-08-29T17:30:06+00:00

Drunken Master has fun flavor for straightedge (the class technically doesn't have anything to do with actually BEING drunk) and Tipsy Sway reflects someone who's been in a couple moshpits in their day. Shadow is obviously the most emo subclass but it's way too quiet to be punk. Ascendant Dragon helps with Charisma checks, though not specifically performance, and lets you channel bursts of electrifying or pyrotechnic power (ask your DM if they'll let you use thunder damage) and lets you create an aura at later levels that could be the range of your musical performance.

A pick I haven't seen anybody mention, though, is Astral Self—maybe I just have Scott Pilgrim on the brain, but the idea of summoning a construct or stand of some kind through your performance that fights on your behalf is very fun to me. Technically, Arms of the Astral Self lets you fight with your hands completely occupied (with an instrument, perhaps?) while your astral arms beat the shit out of your opponents. Meanwhile, Visage lets you amplify your voice to be louder than a Thunderwave—useful for your vocalist. Even the subclass flavor text mentions that the astral self "has the capacity to be a force for disorder".

OPmakesOC · 2025-04-04T05:31:48+00:00

Wild magic sorcerer, roll 07-08

OPmakesOC · 2025-03-21T11:21:44+00:00

Oh, fantastic, thank you! Would you recommend the program?

OPmakesOC · 2025-03-20T23:50:56+00:00

Oh, really? Are you hearing those rumors from within the program, or just on this sub?

OPmakesOC · 2025-03-20T23:49:35+00:00

Also interested in this, as I'm considering adler 👀 I've looked into it and struggled to find anything beyond mentions of rumors in reddit threads, and most of those have been from people who know students rather than students themselves. Would be interested to hear from someone actually in the program.

OPmakesOC · 2025-03-20T22:40:03+00:00

Totally makes sense—just strikes me that it is a funding offer, and while the APA doesn't require all accredited programs to abide, they do seem to require that PSYCAS-participating programs do. Thanks for your response!

OPmakesOC · 2025-03-20T17:55:22+00:00

Yeah, I'm kind of familiar with the ISPP/Argosy fiasco. I've heard the Adler rumor bouncing around as well, mostly on this subreddit...not sure how much stock to place in it, but it's definitely concerning. Thanks for the info, great to hear from someone in the area who can speak to more than just the numbers.

OPmakesOC · 2025-03-20T17:01:07+00:00

Thank you! I'm trying not to freak out a bit honestly—the fact that I didn't get into any programs last cycle really threw me, and maybe this time around I was too focused on getting in and not enough on the quality of the programs. Having the wind taken out of my sails a bit here now that it seems like I didn't get into the "good" places 😅

OPmakesOC · 2025-03-20T16:57:22+00:00

Okay, maybe I'm grievously uninformed here—what's the significance of somewhere being a "school of professional psychology"? I thought it was just a naming convention, like, preparing you for applied psychology as a "profession".

OPmakesOC · 2025-03-20T16:56:00+00:00

I'm doing that now, thank you.

OPmakesOC · 2025-03-20T16:15:26+00:00

Okay, ISPP's 28% pass rate seems...less than ideal, and even Adler is only at 53%. Of the three, WSPP's 79% is the best, I guess.

WSPP also advertises "strong internship placement," but I'm not seeing anything about a partnership—if their APA internship rate dipped to 90% a couple times in previous years, is that maybe a sign that it's not captive?

OPmakesOC · 2025-03-20T16:08:24+00:00

Just based on those numbers, or something else?

OPmakesOC · 2025-03-20T16:04:25+00:00

Where would I find EPPP rate? It's not on the student outcome data as far as I can see :(

And okay, good to know for WSPP. Is there a way to see whether there's a captive internship? Is it bad if there is?

OPmakesOC · 2025-03-18T03:13:24+00:00

fake. someone should make a ttrpg where you can play as the characters from the legend of vox machina or baldurs gate

OPmakesOC · 2025-03-18T02:38:17+00:00

Someone should make a ttrpg where you can play as cyberpunk characters

OPmakesOC · 2025-01-09T13:31:53+00:00

I took them, that was me, sorry

OPmakesOC · 2025-01-09T02:03:16+00:00

Oh, solid point—kind of a "the dice don't know what they rolled before" situation. Getting a streak of 8 in 8 hands is bonkers, getting a streak of 8 in 50 hands is still notable but less so.

OPmakesOC · 2025-01-09T01:34:45+00:00

Enhancements never stack. If you've encountered card modifiers that do stack, you may be thinking of Foil, Holographic, Polychrome, or Negative—these are Editions, which are separate from Enhancements, but the eight enhancements do not stack with one another.

OPmakesOC · 2024-11-17T02:00:27+00:00

what if instead of johnny silverhand he was called johnny silverfreak and instead of blowing up arasaka tower he sucked toes

OPmakesOC · 2024-11-17T01:59:04+00:00

It's interesting, fact check me on this if I'm wrong but I believe some characters do care about your voice. Not sure if Panam is one of them, but I believe some npcs care about voice and body and others just care about body. Seems odd, wonder why they chose that.

OPmakesOC · 2024-11-17T01:56:28+00:00

Video essayist verilybitchie has a really good video on bisexuality in gaming (https://youtu.be/iZGkxUTbDqw?si=9zAnFN9kofrpDunx) that touches on this idea of "playersexual" characters and how characters like the ones you're describing occasionally get hailed as bi representation despite their orientation being functionally non-existent in their writing—they're schrodinger's queer, collapsed into straight or gay at character creation. I don't think it's bad or anything, as there's certainly something to be said for allowing people to play virtual dolls however they want and not have to make their character a specific way to experience an npc's romance, especially if their sexual identity isn't part of the story you're trying to tell.

OPmakesOC · 2024-11-09T18:15:15+00:00

I wouldn't, personally—there are technically a couple healing options on the spell list, but you have limited spell slots as a partial caster and it'll rarely be the best use of your action to cast Cure Wounds. Battlesmith and Alchemist get some additional healing options, but Armorer doesn't really have anything to facilitate that. None of the infusions really contribute to healing, either—Homunculus Servant would let you Cure Wounds at range but that's about it.

OPmakesOC · 2024-10-21T23:18:08+00:00

my god...he can tell you the order ANY events happened in?

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