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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Troll Slayer" data-source="post: 5374131" data-attributes="member: 97636">Class balancing becomes a problem when you mix in way too many exclusive classes. There's no reason the Monk class should be so restricted to one particular group of people. It does nothing to disrupt game balance by allowing flavor variations. Monks didn't exist in a void, there are always tales of rival martial arts schools with differing aims and even alignment choices. For Example: I always thought the Drunken Master Prestige Class was neat but unnecessary. Take some defensive feats, and improvised weapon feats and you have a Drunken Master. Perhaps he has to drink to heal wounds but you throw him an AC bonus while intoxicated to balance it out. Simple, elegant and eliminating the need for a PrC. If a great person comes along and lives their life like a traditional monk, why couldn't they begin to develope the same techniques? Why couldn't they learn to harness the power of the human body without joining a reclusive monestary? It just never made sense to me. There are humans out there who exhibit many of the traits associated with real world monk lore, and they've never set foot in a traditional monestary. Parkour athletes for one specific example. They are at the peak of physical condition and can do things no normal man can do thanks to their devotion and discipline. Sure you could just create new feats for the Fighter class, and run into new balance issues OR you could allow monk to cover more possible character areas, thereby limiting your own work and keeping balance issues to a minimum. It's just my opinion that classes with exclusive membership create the need for new classes; and new classes create the majority of all balance issues. Hell I have a friend who is a barbarian in a fight. He literally foams at the mouth, breaks furniture and has to be dragged off his opponent (at the risk of harm to whomever is doing the dragging.) He never notices his wounds until the fight is over, I've even seen him shatter two bones in his hand (in 5 total different places) and keep punching someone in the face with that hand! He's easily a berserker and he's never lived a "tribal" lifestyle by any stretch of the definition. Some things in DnD are so arbitrarily limited it drives me bonkers, and it's these silly limitations that often drive players to want weird classes, or make irritatingly weird characters just to be different.</blockquote>

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