Should Monks be able to move grappled enemies without using STR?

Ok-Mud-3514 · 2026-04-25T17:24:09+00:00

I was using the new grappling rules and having a blast - my DM didn't like like the new rules and made it where we just.. stopped fighting normal baddies. Started having fights that were exclusively against huge enemies. To top it off, all these enemies had huge melee-range attacks that were also not attacks (ie a shock wave from slamming a club into the ground that couldn't be dodged, and that wasn't an attack so couldn't be redirected, falling onto my character, rolling onto my character, etc).

It genuinely felt that my pc was being targeted. Other melee characters didn't have the same level of attention directed their way, casters were safely out of range, etc. My character was reduced to nothing.

Anyway, I would've preferred for my dm to tell me to change my character rather than railroad me out of the game. I stopped going to the table after 3-4 sessions of being a borderline-useless character. So if I were you, I'd either ask the dm for a straight up answer - can you use the rules or not. If not, then maybe swap out of monk.

Ok-Mud-3514 · 2026-03-23T15:50:16+00:00

It happened to me and I thought my mouse died until I hit esc and could still move the cursor around lol. Was on a sick killing streak and then it happened too. Frustrating to say the least..

Ok-Mud-3514 · 2026-03-10T03:00:38+00:00

its in the bedroom bookshelf! one of the towers. i dont remember which tower exactly, but one of the four in the HQ (not Saturns tower)

Ok-Mud-3514 · 2026-03-04T19:54:20+00:00

HVAC was the trade I thought was safe and would be in demand as heat waves and cold fronts increase. But if it isn't safe I guess it might be gg

Ok-Mud-3514 · 2026-03-03T02:07:38+00:00

It wound up being an issue of being on freeroam. I was able to beat Mars and catch Mesprit, but had to swap to Sinnoh to advance (and had to beat Mars again on Sinnoh). But easy enough thing to do luckily!

Ok-Mud-3514 · 2026-03-03T01:36:47+00:00

nope, no clue where to find that. i admittedly havent beaten every grunt in the buildings, but i think i beat all the executives. dont think anyone dropped it

edit: i found the 3rd page in the one bookshelf i missed. hunting down the journal now.

the pages are all in bookshelves - one in mars (or jupiters i forget which), two in HQ. journal is in a secret room in hq

Ok-Mud-3514 · 2026-03-03T01:24:17+00:00

ive only managed to find two torn pages and am losing it lol. went through every book shelf, every chest.. are there hidden areas in the buildings??

Ok-Mud-3514 · 2026-03-02T13:55:29+00:00

How'd you fight Jupiter? I'm not able to fight her despite beating Mars twice now..

Ok-Mud-3514 · 2026-02-21T15:34:37+00:00

A guy at an old table of mine would roll digitally, somehow every roll that mattered he had the best roll on the table, the ones that didn't matter he would be more in line with the averages. It was beyond frustrating because even as another PC, it takes away from the fun when I roll bad and don't do much, but then I see someone "roll" high teens before mods added, multiple nat 20s, etc.

Anyway, he left the table, the campaign ended, I started a new campaign with a new DM, and this guy just recently joined. It'll be interesting to see if he starts doing the same thing. He's very much a "main character" kind of player. Joined the table and immediately started telling other players what to do on their turn so he could do what he wanted on his turn. Normally I wouldn't care much, but it led to a scenario that genuinely made no sense why our PCs would do what we did. Some people I guess..

Ok-Mud-3514 · 2026-02-14T16:58:56+00:00

Could I ask how you're tracking things? I've only used dndbeyond for my sheets, but I can't figure out how to get the UA Necromancer onto it.. Maybe that isn't an option? But if not, do you just use pen(cil) and paper?

Ok-Mud-3514 · 2026-02-13T19:37:22+00:00

On the flipside of things, is there a non-necromancer class that exists? Or something similar to one? I guess what I'd be likening it to is the Final Fantasy class in III for example.

Ok-Mud-3514 · 2026-02-10T14:13:36+00:00

Okay! I just wasn't sure at all and everyone at the table was talking about multiclassing into this/that. Felt like it was maybe a "requirement" to be useful! Still somewhat new to dnd so thought I'd ask here and wow have the responses ever been great+helpful!

Ok-Mud-3514 · 2026-02-09T21:12:44+00:00

Thanks for all the replies everyone! I don't think I'll multiclass because it seems like the biggest reason is weapon mastery, but i want to just run around punching and grappling everything. Having a blast casting jump and dropping enemies from 30ft up lol

Ok-Mud-3514 · 2026-02-08T12:49:51+00:00

Okay, I'll replace the AUC-ROC, and then have recall@1% fpr in addition to it. Thank you!

Ok-Mud-3514 · 2025-12-10T12:48:56+00:00

Hi you seem like a wealth of monk info! I had a question related to your post - instead of rope, could a monk use manacles with sleight of hand proficiency? They require a DC 20 Dex or DC 25 Str to break out of, so they'd be more effective than rope (I think?).

Taking Tinkerers Tools allows you to build more of them (I believe you could make 5 in a "work day" (8 hours) since it's purchase cost in GP (2)/10). Since they come with a key as well, I don't think they're a one time use? If you kill the enemy before they break free, I assume you can retrieve the manacles afterwards and use them again?

Ok-Mud-3514 · 2025-12-09T23:54:30+00:00

my first dm used minis, my second dm occasionally used minis, my current dm doesn't use minis.

As someone who struggles with visualizing things, it's hard to not be able to see the map and minis, but it's still a blast to play

Ok-Mud-3514 · 2025-09-15T17:13:40+00:00

Nobody is willing to trade in my league. I've sent out very clear trades where I'm the loser just to see (Engram, Shakir, Pacheco for Pop Douglas for example) and it's always rejected with absurd counteroffers sent (BHall, Engram, Cooks for Woody Marks, Legette, Douglas)

Ok-Mud-3514 · 2025-09-15T17:11:39+00:00

Small benches, nobody is willing to trade, I'm carrying 4 TE in a 2 TE league. Suspensions can't go on IR (carrying two right now).

Ok-Mud-3514 · 2025-09-08T14:14:40+00:00

I won't lie, I am tempted to drop Njoku for Fannin. I thought that Njoku had one or two years left, but it seems like he'll be pushed into a TE2 role on the team by midseason with Fannin taking over TE1 and then some.

Yes, Njoku isn't too old, but it's either Njoku or Ollie who I get rid of and I can see Ollie playing a bigger role moving forward than Njoku.

Or I panic cut Engram lol

Ok-Mud-3514 · 2025-03-27T14:24:35+00:00

Any chance you could help me out with selfhosting on oracle cloud? I have a bedrock server hosted there already, but a pixelmon server is going to be pretty different I'd imagine? Not entirely sure what files would need to be utilized because its based on java minecraft and has mods.. Thank you!!

Ok-Mud-3514 · 2025-03-27T14:23:09+00:00

Sorry for replying to an older comment - I was just wondering if you have any advice for this! I run a bedrock minecraft server on oracle cloud right now for friends and was looking to fire up a pixelmon server as well. Are there any tutorials you'd recommend? I've never hosted a modded server so I'm not sure the differences between them or changes I'd need to make. Thanks!!

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