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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 7793232" data-attributes="member: 907"><p>I agree with you in principle, but monks work just fine on Athas. You can justify their semi-magic stuff as being expressions of psionic power. 2e's The Will & The Way even had a kit called the Sensei that turned psionicists into unarmed combatants (albeit via the ridiculous 2e unarmed combat rules).</p><p></p><p>And consider the real-world origins of martial arts: scarce resources and laws forbidding commoners from being armed combining to make unarmed combat training a thing. That's pretty apt for Dark Sun.</p><p></p><p>I'd say the cleric is a bigger problem than the monk. The 2e Dark Sun elemental cleric was very far away from the traditional cleric, although they did have a massive spell list at lower levels (in 5e terms, the combined cleric + druid spell list + some esoteric stuff from various sourcebooks, minus those spells that specifically belonged with another element), and figuring out how to either bend the 5e cleric into shape or make a new class would be very hard. 4e solved it by just saying that the role in question was filled by the shaman class, which I suppose worked fine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 7793232, member: 907"] I agree with you in principle, but monks work just fine on Athas. You can justify their semi-magic stuff as being expressions of psionic power. 2e's The Will & The Way even had a kit called the Sensei that turned psionicists into unarmed combatants (albeit via the ridiculous 2e unarmed combat rules). And consider the real-world origins of martial arts: scarce resources and laws forbidding commoners from being armed combining to make unarmed combat training a thing. That's pretty apt for Dark Sun. I'd say the cleric is a bigger problem than the monk. The 2e Dark Sun elemental cleric was very far away from the traditional cleric, although they did have a massive spell list at lower levels (in 5e terms, the combined cleric + druid spell list + some esoteric stuff from various sourcebooks, minus those spells that specifically belonged with another element), and figuring out how to either bend the 5e cleric into shape or make a new class would be very hard. 4e solved it by just saying that the role in question was filled by the shaman class, which I suppose worked fine. [/QUOTE]
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