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This is going to be fun. Okay, first, the Wikipedia article you mentioned: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk#Western_Christianity Here's an important quote that relates to what you said about Friar Tuck: However, note also that it differentiates between two levels of monkhood: Ordained...

Hmm. Maybe wait for the three rulebooks to come out? If they called it easy, it might be easy because the full set of rules provide text that make much more likely to succeed.

Your second link refers to them as being secular knights. The other two do not in any way refer to them being priests, and all three note them for their wealth and military power while speaking almost nothing about them having any sort of religious basis beyond who gave them authority. So, all...

I'm referring to the actual written versions of the tales; those are 1400s and later. Not the references to them. And I'm not wrong about the Knights Templar. I was wrong for not challenging you on calling them a monastic order; I looked it up and it turns out they weren't. They were a military...

If the hair makes it impossible to wear the helmet, then I don't think any samurai would have worn them. Long hair was part of the samurai station, so the helmets had to be designed to account for it. It didn't matter if they were male or female.

In order to be a monk, one had to be an ordained priest. The Knights Templar were not priests. So, no, they were not monks. They never could be monks because they didn't meet the basic requirements. And the earliest surviving records of the tales of Robin Hood that were written down are from...

There's a large difference between "monastic order" and "monk." Monastic orders often had large numbers of members who were actually not monks; the monks themselves tended to be people who had taken vows of poverty, celibacy, nonviolence, etc. A monk was ultimately defined as someone choosing to...

Because Western monks actually tended to have military training as strictly not part of their ascetic lives. They were rather well known for it. Friar Tuck is so famous because he is known as an exception, not the rule.

By all indications, they are not going to break that up any further.

In other words, you play with a set of house-rules, not the rules as they are actually written. And now you're trying to justify your house-rules as being the legitimate RAW rules just because the text allows you to create house-rules and you don't like getting called on using them. You're...

I was expanding upon your discussion of the fact the rules themselves do not allow 100% freedom.

To add to this, there's also DMs who use auto-failure to say that, no, you're not allowed to even attempt it. I've had more than a few in my time. And they actually confirmed that's what they meant when they used the auto-failure. That's part of why the difference between auto-failure and not...

And yet, by rules, fighters are still not allowed to attempt to cast spells from memory. That has been in every edition, and even 5E is continuing it. Wizards, on the other hand, have had it as a core mechanism of how spellcasting works for numerous editions. Also, let me point out that your...

To add onto this with my viewpoint: Part of what irks me with this discussion is something that irks me in general: People seem to confuse "uncountable" with "infinite." That gets troublesome because it provides a basis for arguing the person is wrong, since there is a vast difference between...

I'm very fond of this artwork, and I seriously hope it is a sign of how the entire edition will be treated.

To be honest, of them, I find the MM to be clearly the best. But that's only because it has the clearest art. The others kinda have this partially-faded look to them that doesn't do them any favors. That said, totally? I'm not really fond of any of them. The art would be okay for inside a...

Let me test this theory... Hastur Hastur Hastur! It worked! It really, really worked! OH CRAP! IT WORKED! RUN!

It will probably still be going on when 6E arrives. Who, in turn, proceeded to reenact every stupid thing we ever did, only worse.

And it's intended as a "gift" for He-Man. The kind that He-Man will remember every time he sits down.