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<blockquote data-quote="Drew" data-source="post: 1818754" data-attributes="member: 1314">Which would work great if monks didn't have standard abilities such as Slow Fall, Abundant Step, Quivering palm, and Tongue of the Sun and Moon, all of which are very wuxia. Coupled with the monk weapons (nunchaku, sai, kama, etc) its really hard to pretend they aren't eastern. Friar tuck may have been a pretty good grappler, but he did not use nunchuks.Incidentally, the monks in my world were taught their unarmed fighting from a githzerai master that came to the world to escape persecution from his enemies. The style was first taught in the west, then spread to the east where it really took hold because the people there were forbidden from carrying weapons (much like the real world evolution of the martial arts, except the whole &quot;started in the west thing.&quot;)My campaign is meant to discourage things that I don't personally like (monks patterned after eastern archtypes ackwardly inserted into psuedo-medievel europe) without actually restricting players from building standard 3.5 D&amp;D characters.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Drew, post: 1818754, member: 1314"] Which would work great if monks didn't have standard abilities such as Slow Fall, Abundant Step, Quivering palm, and Tongue of the Sun and Moon, all of which are very wuxia. Coupled with the monk weapons (nunchaku, sai, kama, etc) its really hard to pretend they aren't eastern. Friar tuck may have been a pretty good grappler, but he did not use nunchuks. Incidentally, the monks in my world were taught their unarmed fighting from a githzerai master that came to the world to escape persecution from his enemies. The style was first taught in the west, then spread to the east where it really took hold because the people there were forbidden from carrying weapons (much like the real world evolution of the martial arts, except the whole "started in the west thing.") My campaign is meant to discourage things that I don't personally like (monks patterned after eastern archtypes ackwardly inserted into psuedo-medievel europe) without actually restricting players from building standard 3.5 D&D characters. [/QUOTE]

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