4-elements Monk

[MaxWilson]

Flashy presentation, but both Orcs are still alive with 5 hp. If you just waled away at one and added a Flurry of blows, you’d probably have killed it and only be facing attacks from one, a significantly better tactical situation. If you were Open Hand you could have probably kicked one (or both) over that same 30’ cliff, too.

For what it's worth, I rolled this out (d8+3, plus d4+3 x2, all at +5 to hit vs AC 13) and killed an orc 4 times out of 10. Damage totals were 15, 25, 7, 4, 14, 15, 10, 11, 16, 10.

But let's not get too hung up on the "two orcs" scenario. The whole point of AoEs is that whereas normal attacks get worse as the number of attackers increase, AoEs get better. If the monk is facing 2 orcs, the whole party is probably facing 8 orcs, right? Find the biggest cluster you can and nuke it as hard as you can.