[Morgan_Corbesant]

well, i put alot into dex and con, a few in the others, so i have no negatives, and the rest went into str and con. there are tons of items in the game that raise your strength. potions are easy, and there are belts too. if you get a bonus at all to strength, but your dex is higher, and you have weapons finesse, you still get the "to hit" with your dex, and the damage bonus still applies, if you have one. i get a +2 damage from my strength, and i have an 18 dex, and 16 wis, so my ac is rather high. i have a few items too. boots of the sun soul+2 for one. i have some cool gloves that are +2 to hit, and do 2 sonic damage, so my monk hits for between 6 and 14 damage per hit. not too shabby. i dont worry about charisma, persuade (great feat) is a monk skill, so it have it at level 7 or so right now. it works nine out of ten times for me. im an elf, so i see all traps, an i carry a bow with elemental arrows to destroy trapped chests and doors. monks are by far the second best characters in the game, right after sorceror that is. [img]smile.gif[/img] i multi-playered a game, it was me vs a 20th level monk. i had improved stoneskin, which i cast on me, my familiar (panther) and a summoned skeleton chieftain. while he was fighting them, i was blasting him with horrid wilting, fireball, fire arrow, acid arrows, and useing a good ole timestop or two. he was MAD!!! it was the first time he was beaten, because he usually just used his quivering palm and killed his enemies in one hit!!! aside from the magic aspect though, monks are my favorite melee fighter. i just wish the kensai from BG2 would be in this. that would be awesome.