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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Samuel Leming" data-source="post: 1868692" data-attributes="member: 16462">Well, I did ask in my original post if they used the monk or not.Well, I see the point of it, but I'm not sure it warrants the restriction.  I'm still thinking about it.Interesting.  This would make it easier for the fighter to match the monk's unarmed prowess, but I have some concerns about balance.Monk weapons are weird to begin with, being based on what were used by the Karateka of Okinawa, a group with very little in common with the monk.  It's me, the original poster, again.  I'm not having any trouble with the way the threads going, but I'm new here and haven't had a chance to get tired of thread wierdness yet.Did you make any modifications to these monks to more closely represent their pursuit of mental and spiritual perfection?I'd be interested in seeing this.  Would you also be able to describe your conditional template as a cultural template?  I think I discussed something similar when cultural stereotypes where brought up in a thread on Eddings' trash fantasy books.Yes, a person that want to play a medieval monk should be able to play one and have it called a monk.  As I said in my first post, I'm going to call the standard D&D monk something else.  Shou Lin is too specific and too asian, I'll call them Ascetics.Sam</blockquote>