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<blockquote data-quote="Baron Opal II" data-source="post: 9548828" data-attributes="member: 6794067">I haven't yet, but I have a player who is playing the first monk (mystic) in my bespoke D&amp;D for ~8 years, with only three in the past 20. I have some issues with the class mechanically, but, weirdly, I haven't come up with different orders yet. I'll have to get on that.My temples, magical orders, fighting guilds, druid circles, &amp;c., are many, but haven't given much thought to monks yet.Mechanically, I make take some inspiration from a few third party interpretations of the monk. Arcana Unearthed had the Oathsworn, inspired by the Bloodguard from the Thomas Covenant stories. Midnight had the Brawler, quite handy when weapons are forbidden. ACKS has the Mystic, inspired by the Bene Gesseret from Dune. Plus there's what inspiration you can glean from Avatar; I think element bending is a great theming element (heh). I do appreciate 5e's use of &quot;focus&quot; as a defining mechanic. Might use that to refine my class, although I might call it &quot;vril&quot;.<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> Actually, a friend of mine is an Episcopal priest. She refers to herself as a &quot;cleric&quot; all the time.She does not refer to herself as a &quot;priestess&quot;, however. That gets you the frown of judgement.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Baron Opal II, post: 9548828, member: 6794067"] I haven't yet, but I have a player who is playing the first monk (mystic) in my bespoke D&D for ~8 years, with only three in the past 20. I have some issues with the class mechanically, but, weirdly, I haven't come up with different orders yet. I'll have to get on that. My temples, magical orders, fighting guilds, druid circles, &c., are many, but haven't given much thought to monks yet. Mechanically, I make take some inspiration from a few third party interpretations of the monk. [U]Arcana Unearthed[/U] had the [I]Oathsworn[/I], inspired by the Bloodguard from the Thomas Covenant stories. [U]Midnight [/U]had the [I]Brawler,[/I] quite handy when weapons are forbidden. ACKS has the [I]Mystic[/I], inspired by the Bene Gesseret from [U]Dune[/U]. Plus there's what inspiration you can glean from Avatar; I think element bending is a great theming element (heh). I do appreciate 5e's use of "focus" as a defining mechanic. Might use that to refine my class, although I might call it "vril". :D Actually, a friend of mine is an Episcopal priest. She refers to herself as a "cleric" all the time. She [I]does not[/I] refer to herself as a "priestess", however. That gets you the frown of judgement. [/QUOTE]

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