Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - General Thoughts on monk stats?

This is a really terrible idea. You are wasting ability point / feat options turning a monk into a crappy fighter instead of focusing on what makes monks unique.

There is no advantage to putting points into STR as a monk.

STR increases to hit and damage
DEX increases to hit, damage, and AC

It’s a single player game, so if you want your protagonist to be the weakest character in your party, that’s up to you, but why?

Edit: I just double checked- you need to gain proficiency in medium armor before heavy and light before medium, so assuming that the final game build follows these rules, you can’t do this anyway.