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My sense is that the monk was included as a way to hearken back to 1E and draw some of those grognard players back into the fold--same with the barbarian (and the druid too? Been a while since I threw away my 2E PHB. Were there druids in 2E?) As for druids being fairy princesses--explain that...

You know what this thread is really about? Eurocentrism. It's obnoxious--so there's a small amount of genre-blending in the core rules. So what? It's not like a single swinging crank in this thread is running an historical Western Europe campaign. And it's not like the monk is the only non-Euro...

Nope, he was chaotic. In Complete Divine, under the Sacred Fist description, it says that DMs should feel free to introduce non-lawful monks. I agree that as written, the monk's abilities seem rigid--that said, there's nothing wrong with giving him ki fist (chaotic) instead of lawful, and...

I like monks. I've played a number of them. I like their array of abilities, and I like reinventing them. My monk characters have included the humble friar, the shadowy vigilante, the ascetic imam, and in a Greyhawk game, the grappler of Kord. People get too wrapped up in the names of things...

You have a lovely family. :)

I'm not playing apologist for the perp, but I know that sometimes you just don't think about it. Last night I had a couple of beers, then thought about how I'd love to drive down to the store and pick up some ice cream. I got as far as standing up and putting the keys in my pocket before going...

Human. They're much more customizable than the core demihuman races.

When they came upon the farmstead, nothing stirred but the cutting wind, blown like a razor down from the mountains, across the white-capped lake, and through their hearts. They entered the steading silently, with weapons drawn and spells ready upon their lips, but a quick search around the...

An implied super-dungeon works just as well, IME. As long as my players feel like one is out there, they're satisfied without having to actually crawl through the whole thing--though they'll happily do part of it.

When Return to the Temple of Elemental Evil came out, I scarfed it up and got my buddy Hjoirmir to run it. Shortly after we defeated the blue dragon at the moathouse, he told me he didn't want to run it anymore. When I asked him why, he just pulled out the module and flipped through 100 pages of...

The graphics in DDO look dated and it hasn't even come out yet. That's a bad sign.

IME, the better a group knows one another IRL, the more they're willing to work together as a team.

In the morning. I'm falling asleep here. :)

Messageboard posters often make wild claims. This seemed one, so I wanted to pin it down. I detest unfounded assertions. That said, I acknowledge the point.

Yes, DDO is by Turbine Games, I believe, the fine folks who brought us those steaming piles of crap known as Ascheron's Call I & II. I'm not optimisitic. Honestly, I wouldn't care what setting a D&D MMOPG was done in, as long as it was done well.

Really? Show me something other than anecdotal evidence.

Class is irrelevant. When it comes to tactics, it's all player-side, not character-side, though you could justify tactical brilliance with a moderately high Int and Wis (13+).

If one can embarass oneself by suggesting that he not make unsupported claims, then I guess I'm guilty. And for the record, I'm not favoring one side or the other setting-wise. Just saying--stick to the facts, honcho. Logos/ethos/pathos and all that.

Warlord Ralts, your hypothesis is rational but lacks supporting data. Until you have it, you cannot conclusively assert that Setting A is more popular than Setting B. For all we know, FR had declined significantly enough in popularity that WotC felt compelled to find a new flagship setting via...

Polls on messageboard forums are fun but useless. What would be helpful is information from WotC regarding who buys what, and how much. Otherwise, he's talking out of his you know what--that's my point.