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<blockquote data-quote="Corwin" data-source="post: 63009" data-attributes="member: 1560">Personally, I am debating a different, and possibly more essotaric, point.I have already stated that I don't agree monks should be allowed to use shields. Been paying attention much?My argument is more about a general attitude that sometimes occurs regarding certain individuals' opinions (and I really am not singling out Caliban when I say this, he is just one of many) and those of the Sage. Reading it in a magazine does not make it official, no matter how many times people cry out that it is so. Even WotC will tell you this is the case. That is what the R&amp;D department was designed to do. Filter out opinions (no matter how revered) from game balance and playability on a global rules scale (something not often considered by certain &quot;powers that be&quot;).The other half of my argument is indeed that shields may or may not necessarily be &quot;Armor&quot;. But this does not change the fact that monk's should be allowed to use them. Those are, IMO, two seperate issues. I made all of this very clear in my first post.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Corwin, post: 63009, member: 1560"] Personally, I am debating a different, and possibly more essotaric, point. I have already stated that I don't agree monks should be allowed to use shields. Been paying attention much? My argument is more about a general attitude that sometimes occurs regarding certain individuals' opinions (and I really am not singling out Caliban when I say this, he is just one of many) and those of the Sage. Reading it in a magazine does not make it official, no matter how many times people cry out that it is so. Even WotC will tell you this is the case. That is what the R&D department was designed to do. Filter out opinions (no matter how revered) from game balance and playability on a global rules scale (something not often considered by certain "powers that be"). The other half of my argument is indeed that shields may or may not necessarily be "Armor". But this does not change the fact that monk's should be allowed to use them. Those are, IMO, two seperate issues. I made all of this [i]very[/i] clear in my first post. [/QUOTE]

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