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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drdevoid" data-source="post: 530792" data-attributes="member: 5356">Shurai,Okay, legal is a little overstated but we are talking about the two most diametrically opposed classes, IMHO. Mind you one doesn't have to move more than one alignment to go from Monk to Barbarian, per se, but we are talking about a typically chaotic class. And it's more than just the alignment. It's the difference between a class the requires cloistered life, concentration, and contemplation versus one of frenzy, ferocity, and brutality. And you get labeled a munchkin in my group if you were allowed to do it in the first place. And that's saying something in a group of powergamers.  Now how would I explain it? Well, we start with a monk of Kord. Hmm. How's this for some Dogma:Kord encourages his monks to discipline the body in order to learn its full potential. They promote competition to settle quarrels and speak eloquently. They are often seen organizing passive and active non-violent demonstrations towards the goals of freedom and people's inherent right to self-defense regardless of social stature. Kord encourages his paladins and his monks to put the good first in their actions before their lawful tendencies.Kord understands the purpose of law, but desires his monks to follow the way of the unshackled mind. There are two paths. Monks are encouraged either to join with his clerics in the study of more practical martial arts and divine magics that increase vigor and vitality; or they are encouraged to continue to train their bodies but attune their minds with nature, emtyping all thoughts until they hear only the beating of their heart and start to become hardier. Only then can they learn of Kord's true blessing- that of untamed strength which can only barely be controlled.  Then if I was running a Half-Orc monk I would have his dead barbarian brother or fellow tribesman call out to him as a ghost to leave his cloistered life behind and use the power that courses through his veins. I supposed it would work if you had a human family of savage woodsman as well. Maybe the human would have distant traces of orcish blood somewhere in his lineage.Now to figure out the feats and the class ratio. It's just for fun, though, I don't think my DM would really allow it. It's one thing to roleplay an alignment change, it's another to assume it in chargen and explain it away.edit for spelling; reworded dogma bit slightly</blockquote>

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