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<blockquote data-quote="jdrakeh" data-source="post: 2807516" data-attributes="member: 13892">Monastic orders were actually fairly common in Medieval Europe, both in real life and in literature. That said, I agree that the new Monk core class steps away from the European Monk core class of AD&amp;D 1e and more towards the later Eastern Monk of Oriental Adventures - you don't see to many cloistered Franciscan brother deflecting arrows with their bare hands <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />My least favorite core class is still the Cleric, though - the manner in which they acquire spells (and, indeed, their nature as a crusading warrior) is very unbecoming priests in most fiction (fantasy or historical) that I've ever read. The Cleric really bugs me to no end and is one of the three primary reasons that D&amp;D 3x isn't my default fantasy system of choice.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jdrakeh, post: 2807516, member: 13892"] Monastic orders were actually fairly common in Medieval Europe, both in real life and in literature. That said, I agree that the new Monk core class steps away from the European Monk core class of AD&D 1e and more towards the later Eastern Monk of Oriental Adventures - you don't see to many cloistered Franciscan brother deflecting arrows with their bare hands ;) My least favorite core class is still the Cleric, though - the manner in which they acquire spells (and, indeed, their nature as a crusading warrior) is very unbecoming priests in most fiction (fantasy or historical) that I've ever read. The Cleric really bugs me to no end and is one of the three primary reasons that D&D 3x isn't my default fantasy system of choice. [/QUOTE]

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