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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tovec" data-source="post: 6194036" data-attributes="member: 95493">This thread/idea came up months, probably over a year ago, and I think my answer then is probably the same one I'm going to give now - with a few minor considerations due to the recent class group discussions.I like the monk. I really do. It is likely my favourite class in flavour and has many cool and unique abilities that round out the mechanics that I like too. I find it disappointing that so much of the perception of the monk is based in oriental roots. I think the jedi is a good example of a non-oriental influence that is immediately related to the monk.In flavour, what it is meant to be, it is a cross between warrior and priest. It is a mystic warrior. A guy who has spent his time not talking to the gods, or training with weapons but instead honing his mind, body and spirit so that he is capable of doing things that no one else can do. However, even though he is a cross warrior-priest it doesn't really fit the structure of either. Its abilities scream trickster (rogue level powers and abilities). The jedi have lightsabers but the good ones don't use them, they use mind trick or persuasion or levitation (okay bad example). Those are all tricks. The 3e monks have faster speed, WIS to AC, dimension door and so on. Those are tricks.But as far as the "magic" goes, No. They aren't using magic. They're using mysticism, a conversation I also had way back whenever that was. Their abilities are not arcane, divine or even psionic. They aren't magic or psudomagic, they aren't even spell-like. They're just good old fashioned supernatural.I know I've been ramble-y and probably not providing too much support but monks are jedi, or the pandas from that most recent WoW expansion. They have tricks, but are honed warriors with a mystic-priest background. They're the perfect non-cardinal class and I hate to see it abandoned because it doesn't belong to one of the four, or worse yet stuffed into the warrior box by ignoring what makes it mystic and skillsy.</blockquote>

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