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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sparxmith" data-source="post: 1676602" data-attributes="member: 14838">But why would an adventurer do this?  A monk, for instance, would know that he's far behind in combat ability and would likely die because of that lack.  I'm not saying that no one in the D&D universe wouldn't take a vow of poverty(triple negative = a single negative, sorry I couldn't write it better), but none of those would easily take to the life of adventurer.  It's kinda like the village priest.  He's not a Cleric in the D&D sense even though he's a priest of his religion.  Because of this, he might aid the village in the event of a raid, but he's probably not going to go out and attempt to destroy the Hand of Vecna, or kill the Demi-lich who has the Staff of the Magi.In my opinion, the vow is meaningless without the benefits.  If I didn't allow something, say for instance the Frenzied berserker, and a character showed up with the class and he didn't change it but didn't use the class abilities, I'd pull him aside and say he's making a mistake.  I simply wouldn't allow the character to exist under those circumstances because he wouldn't have survived to the level that the group's at.I'm not a fan of RBDM'ing. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Just my two sparx that'll probably start a flame,Sparxmith</blockquote>

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