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<blockquote data-quote="Imret" data-source="post: 2812797" data-attributes="member: 991">Denying that the PHB has a theme does not make that theme go away. The simple fact of it is that the core classes, equipment, skill list, and (to a lesser degree) monster manual represent, by and large, occidental concepts. Mounted knights in plate, wizards with spellbooks and a staff, clerics in chain armor with maces; even their vampires, dragons, and elementals are all European-inspired as compared to oriental. Classes come out in Oriental Adventures and are replaced by others. The monk is the only core class proficient by default in the handful of asian weapons in the PHB.I don't really know how much clearer it can be; and yet, it seems like the only counter argument to &quot;The monk doesn't fit well the other core classes&quot; is &quot;Yes it does! Stop telling me how to play!&quot;.I'm guessing this is an &quot;agree to disagree&quot; sort of situation; it is nice to be right, though. <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" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Imret, post: 2812797, member: 991"] Denying that the PHB has a theme does not make that theme go away. The simple fact of it is that the core classes, equipment, skill list, and (to a lesser degree) monster manual represent, by and large, occidental concepts. Mounted knights in plate, wizards with spellbooks and a staff, clerics in chain armor with maces; even their vampires, dragons, and elementals are all European-inspired as compared to oriental. Classes come out in Oriental Adventures and are replaced by others. The monk is the only core class proficient by default in the handful of asian weapons in the PHB. I don't really know how much clearer it can be; and yet, it seems like the only counter argument to "The monk doesn't fit well the other core classes" is "Yes it does! Stop telling me how to play!". I'm guessing this is an "agree to disagree" sort of situation; it is nice to be right, though. :D [/QUOTE]

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