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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trickstergod" data-source="post: 1868045" data-attributes="member: 10825">Seeing as how the initial poster asked whether we allowed monks in our games, thus meaning a no is a perfectly valid answer despite what some who didn't read the full first post might say, here's my own input. No, I don't allow monks in my games. It comes with a certain amount of Asiatic baggage that, while fine in places like Oriental Adventures, doesn't float my boat in a pseudo-Western implied setting. Furthermore, I don't really like the image of someone, say, punching a hole through plate mail with their bare hand. Even an unarmed combatant with less cultural influence upon it wouldn't do it for me; I find the idea of a bar room brawler or pugilist or wrestler or whatever going fist to claw with a monster to be a bit silly. Sure, doing the job with three feet of steel versus a thirty foot long beasty also might be seen as a bit silly, but I can deal with it better than someone thumping a dragon in the nose with their fist. I don't even really like the Defender from Midnight. So, no, don't use monks. Were I to run a more Eastern flavored game, sure, but there the style of it doesn't seem quite so jarring to me. If it means much, I also tend to avoid psionics as it comes off too strongly as sci-fi and implied evolution (didn't even really like it in Dark Sun). I'm curious how often the two - dislike of monks and psionics - goes hand in hand. I'd say fairly regularly.</blockquote>

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