I'm toying around with the following feats for Monks. Do you all think they're balanced? Worthwhile/useless?
Martial Arts Style: Hard
You have hardened your striking points through patient training. Your unarmed attacks deal +2 damage.
[Comment: this seems roughly equivalent to a fighter taking dueling as a fighting style, although a monk's multiple attacks at earlier levels might throw things off. Though those attacks are also just d4s]
Martial Arts Style: Soft
You know how to use an opponent's own movements against them. If an opponent misses you with a melee attack, you may use your reaction to make one unarmed strike against them.
[Comment: Should this require a ki point? I don't think so since it burns your reaction.]
As far as I know, there are no feats in D&D 5e that are class specific. Some that are race specific, yes, but not class. This (I imagine) is because you are essentially giving one class more abilities that others cannot benefit from and just sort of expanding the number of class features you have.
That being said, I think with how you have written both of these, they would work perfectly well as general feats that anyone can take (but of course these would be the most effective for monks because they use unarmed strikes so much). I would consider in either case also allowing the character to take a +1 bonus to their Strength modifier for Hard and to their Dex modifier for Soft so as to make the benefit of the feat comparable to other standard feats
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I'm toying around with the following feats for Monks. Do you all think they're balanced? Worthwhile/useless?
Martial Arts Style: Hard
You have hardened your striking points through patient training. Your unarmed attacks deal +2 damage.
[Comment: this seems roughly equivalent to a fighter taking dueling as a fighting style, although a monk's multiple attacks at earlier levels might throw things off. Though those attacks are also just d4s]
Martial Arts Style: Soft
You know how to use an opponent's own movements against them. If an opponent misses you with a melee attack, you may use your reaction to make one unarmed strike against them.
[Comment: Should this require a ki point? I don't think so since it burns your reaction.]
As far as I know, there are no feats in D&D 5e that are class specific. Some that are race specific, yes, but not class. This (I imagine) is because you are essentially giving one class more abilities that others cannot benefit from and just sort of expanding the number of class features you have.
That being said, I think with how you have written both of these, they would work perfectly well as general feats that anyone can take (but of course these would be the most effective for monks because they use unarmed strikes so much). I would consider in either case also allowing the character to take a +1 bonus to their Strength modifier for Hard and to their Dex modifier for Soft so as to make the benefit of the feat comparable to other standard feats
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Actually you could open these feats to anyone with the Tavern Brawler feat as well.