Monk's "Empowered Strikes"

So, I am having some difficulty with a monk in my party who can do damage with impunity. I have no issue with Flurry of Blows or any of the elemental damage he does. My issue is about the Empowered Strikes ability:

"Whenever you deal damage with your Unarmed Strike, it can deal your choice of Force damage or its normal damage type."

It just seems really overpowered to me since very few things are resistant to Force damage. Any of his elemental damage can be mitigated some of the time by various critter Resistances. But VERY few critters are resistant to Force damage.

I am curious as to what the community's viewpoint on this feature is.

That’s rather the point- 2014 made the attacks magical at about the same point, back when monsters would resist nonmagical PSB. They dropped that concept in 2024, so now features that made damage magical make it a type like force or radiant that is rarely resisted.

That's the point of the ability. Trying to change that would be a nerf for the monk class, since it's designed with the understanding that it'll be able to deal damage without being resisted most of the time. 

monks have less feats to buff their damage like great weapon mastery and lack fighting style feats ,they have to use ki to get use flurry.

its balanced ,in fact monk is still a bit underpowered they should be doing more damage on average then a fighter if they have to a consume a resource.

the force damage just makes the damage more reliable, but they have less burst and have to spend to keep up, with other martials free attacks..

got to look at the bigger when making balance assessments