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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 4834617" data-attributes="member: 996">Brotherhood of the Wolf was a great flick, but it's 'martial arts' feel was the result of the artistic influence on cinema of eastern martial arts, not an attempt to portray 18th century french and american indian fighting styles.   Like I said, it's not that exotic anymore, it was still a little exotic in '79 when the 1e PH featured the Monk.I'm aware of militant monastic orders in the west, like the infamous 'black monks,' but they were not unarmed combatants by any stretch of the imagination - more like small personal armies for the church.  Western 'martial arts,' when the effort is made to categorize them as such, are more often sporting or even scientific - boxing, wrestling, fencing, savate, and the like - with a few exceptions like Capoeira, which, like many eastern martial arts traditions, was a response to the limitted availability of weapons to the practioners.  None of them really have that mythic/mystic element that makes eastern arts so compelling, either.  Nothing Ki - or Psionic - about them.  A western 'martial art' based class would be Martial.  Indeed, that's what all the martial classes are, to one extent or another.  <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    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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