{"id":5429,"date":"2020-12-18T00:49:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T00:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/?p=5429"},"modified":"2022-09-19T22:20:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T22:20:51","slug":"nwn2-monks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/nwn2-monks\/","title":{"rendered":"NWN2 Monks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I started a new game, and am running a <a href=\"https:\/\/nwn2.fandom.com\/wiki\/Monk\">Monk<\/a>, because <a href=\"https:\/\/neverwintervault.org\/project\/nwn2\/module\/bad-habits\">the game, called &#8220;Bad Habits&#8221; is made for one<\/a>. Here are my notes &#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Gamefaqs have <a href=\"https:\/\/gamefaqs.gamespot.com\/pc\/922154-neverwinter-nights-2\/faqs\/51394\">a short piece<\/a>, and advise Weapon Focus, Power Critical and Improve Critical,\u00a0 Dodge and Toughness. They also recommend Cleave for which you need Power Attack, which by itself is not so useful to a monk.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2jI7GDSJ35o\">Lord Fenton Gaming&#8217;s video guide<\/a>, which is NWN1 but he recommends, Heal &amp; Discipline + the sneaky skills inc. tumble, and persuade if you want. Starts with Dodge &amp; Luck of the Heroes for humans, but otherwise picks the attack feats, weapon focus, critical, and defensive, toughness, mobility.<\/p>\n<p>The game is called &#8220;Bad Habits&#8221;, narf narf and I have got to the point where I have three companions, a <a href=\"https:\/\/nwn2.fandom.com\/wiki\/Swashbuckler\">Swashbuckler<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nwn2.fandom.com\/wiki\/Sorcerer\">Sorcerer<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/nwn2.fandom.com\/wiki\/Favored_Soul\">Favoured Soul<\/a>. I have never used these before; the Sorcerer seems pretty awesome, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/cheats\/14865\/\">this piece describes<\/a> the Favoured Soul as a Sorcerer with divine spells. The Favoured Soul does not stay with you long, and is several levels less than you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/monks-dnd.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5430 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/monks-dnd-300x92.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"92\" srcset=\"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/monks-dnd-300x92.png 300w, https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/monks-dnd.png 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Monk <strong>does<\/strong> get an AC bonus based on Wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>I found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/DnD\/comments\/445vf9\/monk_tactics\/\">this<\/a> on Reddit about fighting with Monks.<\/p>\n<p>There are some comments on Kims spell choice in the comments thread, and I have created a hint for the fight at the top of the Red Tower.<br \/>\n<!-- Trigger\/Open The Modal --><br \/>\n<button id=\"myBtn\">Hint on the Fight at the Red Tower<\/button><br \/>\n<!-- The Modal --><\/p>\n<div id=\"myModal\" class=\"modal\" style=\"max-width: 100%; margin: 4px;\">\n<p><!-- Modal content --><\/p>\n<div class=\"modal-content\" style=\"margin: 10px; padding: 10px;\">\n<p><span class=\"close\">\u00d7<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 120%;\">The mage duel<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 102%;\">On the duel at the top of the Red Tower, you need to equip Kim with extra stuff, I lent her the serpent staff, which she didn&#8217;t use, but should have given her the healing jewel. She needs to move around, <em>spell breach<\/em> got through, <em>feeblemind <\/em>did not, <em>circle of death<\/em> damaged one of the sidekicks, Lady Felicia died, it might have been a <em>power word disable<\/em>, but the effort led to Kim falling unconscious; the one remaining mage found hurting even a dazed Moricho (my monk protagonist) hard to hit, but when he re-spawned, he did for the remaining Mage. Some might call this cheating or cheese, but I am now confident that Kim can beat them, just not going to prove it.<\/p>\n<p>This could be written as a story; they opened the door and saw their enemies. The arch-mage and two acolytes!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\r\n\/\/ Get the modal\r\nvar modal = document.getElementById(\"myModal\");\r\n\r\n\/\/ Get the button that opens the modal\r\nvar btn = document.getElementById(\"myBtn\");\r\n\r\n\/\/ Get the <span> element that closes the modal\r\nvar span = document.getElementsByClassName(\"close\")[0];\r\n\r\n\/\/ When the user clicks on the button, open the modal\r\nbtn.onclick = function() {\r\n  modal.style.display = \"block\";\r\n}\r\n\r\n\/\/ When the user clicks on <span> (x), close the modal\r\nspan.onclick = function() {\r\n  modal.style.display = \"none\";\r\n}\r\n\r\n\/\/ When the user clicks anywhere outside of the modal, close it\r\nwindow.onclick = function(event) {\r\n  if (event.target == modal) {\r\n    modal.style.display = \"none\";\r\n  }\r\n} \r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>The comments have spoilers for the ultra-sensitive; mainly about how to play D&amp;D. I should try and put them in modal. One Day? <em>7\/8\/2021<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started a new game, and am running a Monk, because the game, called &#8220;Bad Habits&#8221; is made for one. Here are my notes &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[60,63],"tags":[1593,692,64,1551,217],"class_list":["post-5429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games","category-nwn","tag-bad-habits","tag-character-build","tag-frpg","tag-monk","tag-nwn2"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/monks-w650.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davelevy.info\/wiki\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}