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How Magical or Non-Magical Should the Monk Be?
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<blockquote data-quote="Salamandyr" data-source="post: 6030897" data-attributes="member: 40233"><p>Not sure where the druid thing comes in? Because they were called Grandmaster of Flowers?</p><p></p><p>The original monk was written because somebody in Dave Arneson's game wanted to play Kaine from Kung Fu.</p><p></p><p>I guess it would be arguable whether you consider they "train like a fighter". Both the D&D monk and the fighter train to overcome their opponents using martial skill. That sounds the same to me. The fighter recognizes the frailty of the human form and the necessity for using tools to enhance ones deadliness. Because when the game got going, everybody still had Victorian ideas about medieval European martial skills (ie, they thought they had none), the fighter is absolutely useless without his equipment. </p><p></p><p>The D&D monk, rather than recognizing human frailty, somehow trains his body to overcome that and be as deadly and a sword, and as hard as iron mail. My question is...How? Does this mean the fighter is some kind of slacker, who if he really applied himself wouldn't need the sword and armor? Does the monk utilzie some magic tradition where instead of casting spells, their body is enhanced? Or maybe its psionics? It's really the mental power of their mind, and without their magic they would be as dependent on equipment as the knight?</p><p></p><p>I heartily prefer one of the latter two arguments.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Salamandyr, post: 6030897, member: 40233"] Not sure where the druid thing comes in? Because they were called Grandmaster of Flowers? The original monk was written because somebody in Dave Arneson's game wanted to play Kaine from Kung Fu. I guess it would be arguable whether you consider they "train like a fighter". Both the D&D monk and the fighter train to overcome their opponents using martial skill. That sounds the same to me. The fighter recognizes the frailty of the human form and the necessity for using tools to enhance ones deadliness. Because when the game got going, everybody still had Victorian ideas about medieval European martial skills (ie, they thought they had none), the fighter is absolutely useless without his equipment. The D&D monk, rather than recognizing human frailty, somehow trains his body to overcome that and be as deadly and a sword, and as hard as iron mail. My question is...How? Does this mean the fighter is some kind of slacker, who if he really applied himself wouldn't need the sword and armor? Does the monk utilzie some magic tradition where instead of casting spells, their body is enhanced? Or maybe its psionics? It's really the mental power of their mind, and without their magic they would be as dependent on equipment as the knight? I heartily prefer one of the latter two arguments. [/QUOTE]
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