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<blockquote data-quote="Jeff Carlsen" data-source="post: 6194577" data-attributes="member: 61749">For me, the monk has always been a bit out of place in D&amp;D fantasy, and woefully underdeveloped for oriental fantasy.I too, would like to see the monk renamed to Martial Artist (with monk as a background). The various schools of fantasy martial arts would then be the martial artist's subclasses. The core elements of the class would be supernatural agility, the ability to fight without weapons, and a lack of armor. That said, martial artist weapons should still be used to great effect (something I think the monk class has always failed at).At high levels, I would like the martial artist to start gaining clearly magical abilities, like thrown balls of energy, short term flight, and short range teleportation (depending on subclass).All that said, I'd be comfortable omitting the monk from the core game and moving him into an Oriental Adventures expansion where the various concepts can be done justice.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jeff Carlsen, post: 6194577, member: 61749"] For me, the monk has always been a bit out of place in D&D fantasy, and woefully underdeveloped for oriental fantasy. I too, would like to see the monk renamed to Martial Artist (with monk as a background). The various schools of fantasy martial arts would then be the martial artist's subclasses. The core elements of the class would be supernatural agility, the ability to fight without weapons, and a lack of armor. That said, martial artist weapons should still be used to great effect (something I think the monk class has always failed at). At high levels, I would like the martial artist to start gaining clearly magical abilities, like thrown balls of energy, short term flight, and short range teleportation (depending on subclass). All that said, I'd be comfortable omitting the monk from the core game and moving him into an Oriental Adventures expansion where the various concepts can be done justice. [/QUOTE]

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