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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MarauderX" data-source="post: 1037163" data-attributes="member: 9990">A soft rebuttal...1.  Of course it's an interpretation of why Wis is applied to AC as much as it is for reasoning why a Duelist can add Int to AC as long as she is at least holding a butter knife.  2.  I can't think of how many time I have opened up OA and thought how structured Rokugan is, how most everyone follows an honor system, from the good guys down to the bad.  The idea is those undergoing training are following a path, an ideal, or in your words 'enlightenment'; this path is something that has structure, or a way of behaving and is not whimsical or tolerant of less than total devotion.  That to me is a version of Lawful, whether it is Good, Neutral or Evil.  I can't think of any enlightened jokers/tricksters that are still 'practicing' monks to serve as an example.  There are LE monks of course, and maybe it is this homage to evil that keeps a monk part of the lawful realm, much like Darth Vader still worked for the Emperor.  Perhaps these tricksters once were part of a cloister and were tossed out when they changed alignment, and they keep all of the monk levels they got before getting the boot.  3.  I think you misunderstood what I meant.  I agree that in no way does the monk come close to real-life monks OR martial artists.  There is no way that any of the classes depict real life exactly, nor do I think they were meant to.  It is all up to you how much you want to depict things in your game, but I like to have dungeons/battles/motivations/etc. make sense in the perspective of the game.  In relation to reality?  That comparison can't, and shouldn't be made IMO.</blockquote>

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