If the current design style and philosophy continues:
- You'll have a button called 'flurry of blows' that spends a ki point to give you a second, completely unlimited, bonus action. You'll be able to use this at any time, with no caveats, saving once per turn.
- You'll also have 3 separate buttons for:
- Flurry of Blows (Prone): strike damage + imparts the unconscious state, like the sleep spell or slipping in grease do. - Flurry of Blows (Shove): strike damage + shoves the target, as per shove. - Flurry of Blows (Shocked): strike damage + imparts the 'shocked' condition (complete with electric effects) as per shocking grasp or electrified puddles.
This is the 'minimum work' way of doing it in their existing system without creating anything new... and it's deeply disheartening to find myself believing that this is probably pretty close to what they will actually do. - That they haven't dropped monk on us yet because they *didn't* consider it to be one that had anything new or complex that they needed to develop for it, and they said they were getting the ones with new or special or difficult mechanics out of the way first.
((Bonus: Initial bug projection: Flurry (shove) will automatically work if the attack hits, or possibly, will make attack rolls and saves separately, so you may sometimes end up shoving successfully without hitting. It will probably also just use the same check as shove currently does, and *not* actually force a saving throw against your monk DC))
Pretty much. And simply put, casuals couldn't give a damm for D&D AND Baldur's gate. Has long as you have pretty graphics, sex and LOTS of loot its all RPG goodness. Mixed in with clunky Larian humor, its a perfect seller!
Meanwhile fans of D&D and Baldurs gate got scammed into this PR BS. If this were called DOS3 would of never bought it. Thank god for Pathfinder Wotr and Solasta which plays/feels more like a Baldurs gate game ironically. I keep checking the forums, the updates, maybe some kind of hint on a game similar in feel to BG2 or closer to D&D ...alas...basically we are still getting : DOS3, A Baldurs Gate adventure. Its like Baldurs gate 1 and 2 never existed. But hey, we will keep the names and have some cameos to keep the grumpy <fans> happy. From what Ive seen on this forum people who love this game either HATES the previous games, or never even bothered playing them. Im betting nearly NO Larian employee finished the first two games. I mean its just not possible.
