Quote Originally Posted by Zuras View Post
You can eat cookie dough—some people even like it—but it isn’t a cookie. The 4E Monk is a bunch of ingredients tacked on to the Monk without additional features to get them to work together. And annoyingly (to continue the analogy) you can’t even add the chocolate chips and M&Ms that have since been added to the other cookies (the Elemental & Xanathar’s spells) to your raw cookie dough, even if you’re the sort that enjoys it.
Speaking as an interested DM here: what Xanathar's or EE spells are you most annoyed to miss out on? Magic Stone? Erupting Earth?