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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ranger REG" data-source="post: 943591" data-attributes="member: 533">* snipped for brevity *Yup, that's the rules lawyer speaking.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> While I agree the monk class is poorly written that the most literal-minded would find a lot of ambiguities, even for a rulebook format that goes above and beyond to make it sound like a legal textbook (even I would not use the D&D Third Edition Core Rulebook as an example of professional book writing, even for a 3rd grade English class, no offense), a lot of us got past the literal description by our own mindset of what a monk is, at least for D&D and AD&D.While unarmed strike is not listed in the Weapon and Armor Proficienies, it is listed as a separate entry for the monk class.But I digress. While technically, a monk's stunning attack and Stunning Fist feat are two separate attributes, despite the similar game mechanics, many of us consider the monk's stunning attack as a "virtual feat" or a substitute to the Stunning Fist feat prereqs.Let's hope that 3.5e would be more rules-lawyer proof, or be easy on the literal-minded readers.  <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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