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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Turanil" data-source="post: 2464283" data-attributes="member: 9646">Questions about classes:Monks: I have read an earlier post about unarmed bodyguards that could use the monk class. This article mentioned above is impressive, and could be used as a basis for a Polynesian type of monk. Now we must find a way to explain how do exist both fighters and such Lua practitioners. Clerics: I really think that the Cloistered cleric variant is the way to go. Of course they wouldn't be cloistered, but the d6 hd, low bab, only Will for good saves, 6 skill-points per level, etc., seems more appropriate for a Tuhuna/Tahua priest.Then, I have another question regarding Tuhuna/Tahua and their character class. From what I have read so far, I understand that the expert-tradesman function is closely linked to a religious function, and that these characters revere the spirits from which depend their trade, and know prayers to appease them, etc. SO: can we consider to make (in this D&D-Polynesian setting) Tuhuna/Tahua sorts of priest-experts, all of them having the Cloistered Cleric class, plus an appropriate selection of Craft and Knowledge skills. As such they would be, so to speak, the "religious authorities of their sacred trade" (fishing, building boats, building temple, medicine, religious ceremonies, etc.)??Druids: What do we do with druids? As well as the Cloistered Cleric class could be used fairly well for modeling a Tuhuna/Tahua, where the druid, with his shapechange abilities, habit of living in the wilderness, animal companion, etc. would fit?? Since all magic is divine in the Polynesian world, should they be seen as sorts of sorcerers who deal with spirits (of nature)? What name should they get? Do we call them Kahuna (despite I understand that Kahuna is but the Hawaiian term for Tuhuna/Tahua)? Any idea to justify the place of the druid class in a Polynesian world?Of course, if the druid cannot fit, lets give the druid class (with proper name and background) to a more fantastical race than regular Polynesian humans. They could be religious hermits of the sea-elves for example. Then, occasionally a human has learned from a sea-elven <druid> the profession. However, such human <druids> are outcasts who don't belong to the traditional Polynesian society and are often suspected of being sorcerers.</blockquote>

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