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Flurry of Blows has to be done after the action. Why?
Monk's Ki feature Flurry of Blows is defined like this (PHB, page 78):
Immediately after you take the Attack action on your turn, you can spend 1 ki point to make two unarmed strikes as a bonus ...
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Would the Disarm optional rule let a monk use Stunning Strike with it?
I'm playing a monk in a Tomb of Annihilation campaign. My game plan has been to keep our party alive as much as possible through debuffs, body-blocking opponents, and the like.
I recently saw the ...
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Way of the Sun Soul, Radiant Bolt clarification
I'm struggling to interpret the way the rules are written for this monastic tradition, specifically this passage:
When you take the Attack action on your turn and use this special attack as part of ...
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What exactly is a Flurry of Blows?
What part of attacks a monk makes during a full-attack routine constitutes a Flurry of Blows class-feature?
I was recently pointed out, Flurry of Blows says:
A monk must use a full attack action to ...
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Can a monk abort a Flurry of Blows after the first bonus-action attack to avoid wasting a ki point?
Can a monk abort a Flurry of Blows after the first bonus-action attack to avoid wasting a ki point (e.g. if the enemy goes down after the first attack)? Or do you have to "declare" Flurry of Blows and ...
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How many times can a Lvl 17 Astral Self (UA) Monk attack, including bonus action
I believed this was straight forward, but I had a discussion with one of my players who didn't see it the same way as I did.
According to Unearthed Arcana's Way of the Astral Self's subclass features,...
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How do the Drunken Master monk's Drunkard's Luck feature and the Great Old One warlock's Entropic Ward feature interact?
The Way of the Drunken Master Monk gets the Drunkard's Luck feature, which states:
When you make an ability check, an attack roll, or a saving throw and have disadvantage, you can spend 2 ki points ...
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Would a monk using Shocking Grasp cause double damage?
I think this might be answered here, but I'm not quite sure I understand this spell's wording.
I have a monk who focuses on making her actions the most effective, be it dealing the most damage, ...
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How does Flurry of Blows interact with the Multiple Attack Penalty?
As a monk, I can make a Flurry of Blows action that lets me make two unarmed strikes with one action. According to the Multiple Attack Penalty section,
The second time you use an attack action during ...
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What is the range of a Drunken Monk's Redirect attack?
One thing that came up in a session I was playing was when our Drunken Monk was fighting three enemies, one in front and two behind.
The one in front missed and the Monk used redirect to hit an enemy ...
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Does a Drunken Master monk have to attack twice to activate Drunken Technique and its Disengage benefit?
Does a Drunken Master Monk have to attack with one of their flurry of blows attacks to activate the disengage benefit?
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What is the longest distance a 13th-level monk can jump while attacking on the same turn?
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During last session in a game that I GM, the party got ambushed by NPC monks leaping from the trees. They were hiding high up in very big Sawtooth Oak Trees, then jumped in a horizontal ...
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Can a Drunken Master monk use the Redirect Attack feature when the Mirror Image spell causes them to not be hit?
If you have mirror image active and a creature targets you with an attack and doesn't hit you due to your mirror image spell, does that allow you to use the Drunken Master monk's Redirect Attack ...
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Can monks move between their Attack action and bonus-action unarmed strike?
Every question I have seen includes flurry of blows, or readied actions, or whatever. But I am talking about level 1 monk, using just an attack action, and just the martial arts feature. You can ...
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Does a Monk's bonus-action unarmed strike qualify for the Kensei's Agile Parry feature?
For reference, part of the monk's Martial Arts feature states:
When you use the Attack action with an unarmed strike or a monk weapon on your turn, you can make one unarmed strike as a bonus action....
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