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<blockquote data-quote="Slaved" data-source="post: 3459344" data-attributes="member: 43358">But my point was that if you did put other items to the same question you would find that a great deal of the items out there would also need to be removed or changed. This item is not special or unique in that way.I do not mind a dungeon master making houserules in general, although there are some exceptions.For this though I do not see any other interpretation having all that much weight. Much like I do not see a lot of weight for the interpretation that a +1 sword only gets the +1 to attack or +1 to damage but not both.Like I said though, I do not mind houserules but I do like there to be a good reason for it. Saying that the houserule is there because the item could be abused if placed into the hands of monsters might take out half of the items available to characters if the trend continued. I would feel it was a bad precident that might lead to the game going downhill later on.Now if the houserule was that the item in question cost half as much but only benefited characters with levels in monk I would not mind that at all. But that would still leave the issue of some creatures being able to take a level of monk and get all of the benefits while the class still being considered non-associated.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Slaved, post: 3459344, member: 43358"] But my point was that if you did put other items to the same question you would find that a great deal of the items out there would also need to be removed or changed. This item is not special or unique in that way. I do not mind a dungeon master making houserules in general, although there are some exceptions. For this though I do not see any other interpretation having all that much weight. Much like I do not see a lot of weight for the interpretation that a +1 sword only gets the +1 to attack or +1 to damage but not both. Like I said though, I do not mind houserules but I do like there to be a good reason for it. Saying that the houserule is there because the item could be abused if placed into the hands of monsters might take out half of the items available to characters if the trend continued. I would feel it was a bad precident that might lead to the game going downhill later on. Now if the houserule was that the item in question cost half as much but only benefited characters with levels in monk I would not mind that at all. But that would still leave the issue of some creatures being able to take a level of monk and get all of the benefits while the class still being considered non-associated. [/QUOTE]

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