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<blockquote data-quote="The Myopic Sniper" data-source="post: 9066020" data-attributes="member: 55013">They did mention that as an alternative. I think they liked &quot;Spirit Points&quot; if WOTC decided to keep the &quot;Monk&quot; name to keep a bit of a religious connection, but &quot;Focus&quot; would work better for the more general &quot;Martial Artist.&quot; A couple of their commenters pointed out that Pathfinder leans in pretty heavily on &quot;Focus Points&quot; for their secondary short rest/encounter/utility spells system that works a bit lot Ki points except across all classes and that they might want to avoid that name so they don't look like they are stealing from Pathfinder.&nbsp; I prefer &quot;Focus Points&quot; myself over &quot;Discipline Points&quot; and think it would be fine as a name if it is restricted to imitating Ki in the Monk/Martial Artist class alone. I realize that a lot of D&amp;D fans coming out of the Reddit/YouTube sphere don't want another big round of videos from Pathfinder creators accusing WOTC of plagiarizing from Pathfinder again which seems to happen whenever WotC introduces a term or mechanic that is highly associated with Pathfinder 2E that wasn't in 5e previously (even if it was in previous iterations of D&amp;D and that is where Pathfinder got it from.) I was kind of surprised that the Asian Represent folks seemed to be open to keeping the &quot;Ki&quot; or &quot;Chi&quot; type terminology since that seemed to be a big focus of cultural appropriation discussions on places like Twitter. That may be contingent on them having public facing Asian creators brought in specifically to work on the class though and the entire class being specifically Asian themed which seems to be opposite of the direction WOTC has stated they are going.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Myopic Sniper, post: 9066020, member: 55013"] They did mention that as an alternative. I think they liked "Spirit Points" if WOTC decided to keep the "Monk" name to keep a bit of a religious connection, but "Focus" would work better for the more general "Martial Artist." A couple of their commenters pointed out that Pathfinder leans in pretty heavily on "Focus Points" for their secondary short rest/encounter/utility spells system that works a bit lot Ki points except across all classes and that they might want to avoid that name so they don't look like they are stealing from Pathfinder. I prefer "Focus Points" myself over "Discipline Points" and think it would be fine as a name if it is restricted to imitating Ki in the Monk/Martial Artist class alone. I realize that a lot of D&D fans coming out of the Reddit/YouTube sphere don't want another big round of videos from Pathfinder creators accusing WOTC of plagiarizing from Pathfinder again which seems to happen whenever WotC introduces a term or mechanic that is highly associated with Pathfinder 2E that wasn't in 5e previously (even if it was in previous iterations of D&D and that is where Pathfinder got it from.) I was kind of surprised that the Asian Represent folks seemed to be open to keeping the "Ki" or "Chi" type terminology since that seemed to be a big focus of cultural appropriation discussions on places like Twitter. That may be contingent on them having public facing Asian creators brought in specifically to work on the class though and the entire class being specifically Asian themed which seems to be opposite of the direction WOTC has stated they are going. [/QUOTE]

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