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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 3746090" data-attributes="member: 54846">I disagree about monks not fitting D&D. Monks come from the same sort of tradition where psionics are based in fantasy: indo-chinese ascetics. Breathing fire, morphing the body with the thoughts of the mind. The Monk in the PHB is a cleric or a psion who's directed thier power into the body, developing the energies therein, rather than outwards. The martial arts is just a side-effect for mental focus.And before someone says "Indo-chinese crap isn't fantasy", turn to Rakshasa and Naga in the MM. Indian monster. The Gold Dragon has a fu manchu, based on the Chinese dragons which are good. The werefox from the 2e MM was practically the Kitsune. I'd dare say that Elementals are almost a Shinto-based phenomena. If the game doesn't crumble because we have Genies, Sphinx, Mummies (Middle Eastern monsters), the Golem (Which, aside from the Frankenstein monster, is a creature of Jewish folklore; the word Golem is Yiddish), Couatl (A creature inspired and associated with an Aztec God), then I think a little flavor from the Orient isn't going to seem utterly out of place in such a mythologically diverse fantasy genre.</blockquote>