|
Monks can too wear armor. First of all, all three monk types can multi to an armor wearing class (even if it's only light armor), and in any case you can always spend your feats on levels of Armor Proficiency.
The issue is that as soon as the monk puts on armor or uses a shield, s/he loses the Wisdom bonus to AC that you get when fighting unarmored.
However, at the beginning, monks are so weak that imo it doesn't much matter. So my level 3 monk/level 3 rogue currently wears armor and fights with weapons because this is the best way to 1. keep her alive 2. make her useful until she gets to level 9. I'm probably going to ditch the armor in a level or two (when she gets a better dodge bonus one way or another), and I'll let her fight without weapons (except ranged) when she gets to level 4 monk, to see if her unarmed damage is worth giving up a +1 weapon for. I'm hoping that the monk's benefits will be starting to show by the time we get to the Ice Palace, where I suspect we'll be needing them.....
I find it reasonable that during early levels the monk is not able to follow his/her spiritual path perfectly [img]smile.gif[/img] .
|