Staves as starting weapon for monks

[evilmike]

I am all for stave artificers, but would that mean rods should be treated as staves instead of maces and flails?

Probably not needed, since most of the artificer starts are with 2 wands (and sometimes a dagger). Only one of the choices is a rod, and it's possibly the weakest of the artificer starts (choosing it means you don't start with a good way of attacking things, since the rod of striking is so awful).

[MrMisterMonkey]

The rod of striking is a bit less awful, now (1d8 and misses instead of 1d5 and misses, if I recall correctly), but yes.

[Curio]

wow. Brilliant idea about stave artificer. Needs some tweaking with rods though.

[danr]

Well, FWIW, I started a few staff monks beck when they became an option and not much became of any of them.