this week's episode of our show has been sponsored by the seekers guide to twisted taverns which is now available for pre-order for print and pdf this amazing book is packed with new tavern locations filled with mystery and adventure for you and your players to explore if you're like us and are in the mood for a good pub crawl be sure to check this out over on ghost fire games web store it's available for pre-order now so make sure to grab it in the links below and enjoy the adventures that all of these wonderful taverns bring to life in their crazy and wacky environments and now onto this week's episode greetings my name is monty martin and i'm kelly mclaughlin and we are the dungeon dudes welcome to our channel where we cover everything d d including advice for players and guides for dms we upload new videos on tuesdays and thursdays so please subscribe to our channel so that you never miss an episode welcome to part three of our subclass tier rankings for the monk in dungeons and dragons fifth edition today we are looking at the two new monk subclasses introduced in tasha's cauldron of everything the way of mercy and the way of the astral self if you look on the screen right now you're going to see the criteria that we use to rank the subclasses we've pitted the subclasses against each other and not those of other classes keep in mind that although we might mention role playing flavor and multi-classing these are not core pillars of how we rank the subclasses however when we rank subclasses we do consider all pillars of play while combat efficacy is always a big factor when looking at hmong subclasses we do also look for ways that these subclass features augment the base features of monks in both exploration and social encounters we want to see a very diverse class that brings a lot of powerful tools to the table for the monks so let's take a look at the two subclasses introduced in tasha's cauldron of everything there's a lot to discuss today so let's get rolling kicking things off with the way of mercy monk this smoke has an interesting piece of artwork associated with it it looks like a plague doctor which is weird because i don't associate plague doctors with monks ever yeah this looks like a piece of art that maybe was supposed to go for the alchemist yeah the the plague doctor is the is the poster boy of the mercy monk now even though i picture the plague doctor more of a spell caster or or an alchemist of sorts but we do kind of feel the vibe that they're going for when we look at the abilities presented this month learns to channel their energies to both harm and heal and gain some pretty interesting abilities uh along the way first at third level they gain implements of mercy they become proficient in insight and medicine skills and they also become proficient in the herbalism kit as well also all way of the mercy monks get a special mask you can decide what this mask looks like yourself or you can roll on a table presented in the book either way it's a fun quirky role play element also at third level you gain the hand of healing
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN this week's episode of our show has been sponsored by the seekers guide to twisted taverns which is now available for pre-order for print and pdf this amazing book is packed with new tavern locations filled with mystery and adventure for you and your players to explore if you're like us and are in the mood for a good pub crawl be sure to check this out over on ghost fire games web store it's available for pre-order now so make sure to grab it in the links below and enjoy the adventures that all of these wonderful taverns bring to life in their crazy and wacky environments and now onto this week's END_SPONSOR_TOKEN