Quote Originally Posted by Zuras View Post
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.
Wait, hold on. If you use flurry of blows on an orc, you're not guaranteed to hit them all. Orcs don't have good dex saves and you'd have a roughly 40% miss rate on your flurry. If you miss one unarmed strike, you'd only do 13(1d8+1d4+6) damage which means the orc is still alive with another one unscathed.

Orcs are also better at strength saves than dex saves.

And that doesn't disprove the fact that you can fulfill the fantasy just fine if you play the darn subclass.