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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 6056796" data-attributes="member: 2067">I explicitly pointed out that I want to see moar monk at some point. So this isn't about putting limits on the thing. It's about priorities. D&D monks have never really done all those things. So no one is going to miss them too much if they're not taking up page count and dev time in BOOK NUMBER ONE. Awesome in a Dragon article or in a 5e Oriental Adventures, or a 5e third party MONKS GONE WILD: 693 pages of FLURRIOUS monastic action!. Or all these and then some. It's not that it's too much, it's just that it's not a priority. It's not that these things cannot be included, it's just that there's not a lot of sense in cramming it into the first 5e PHB. That's not quite what I meant. D&D monks have a feel that is unique, because they aren't like most representations of monks out there. That unique feel is valuable, because it associates with D&D monks and not with, say, Guild Wars monks. It's a unique feature of the D&D brand, a recognizable thing that D&D does that other heroic fantasy does not do quite the same. That identity would not be quite as strong if D&D monks suddenly tried to model all the other monks out there in heroic fantasy land, rather than being what they uniquely are, and letting the modeling of other types of monks come down the line.</blockquote>