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<blockquote data-quote="MongooseFamiliar" data-source="post: 3261723" data-attributes="member: 48667"><p><strong>Unarmed.</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>If you have access to the Tome of Battle you can use the unarmed Swordsage variation. You could probably do a ninja variant the same way, losing the poison proficiencies in favor of unarmed or something. The sudden strike would work as long as you did lethal damage rather than subdual. A fighter with the right feats could also do some wicked damage with the right feats. </p><p></p><p>That said, not all monks are associated with religions or temples. Many of them are, in fact, not religious at all. PHB: 'A monk's training is her spiritual path. She is inner directed and capable of a private, mystic connection to the spiritual world, she needs neither clerics nor gods." Monks are also reknowned for looking past a person's heritage, family, and so forth and judging him or her on his merits rather than anything else. If your character's family is outcast, that might be reason enough for him to seek the shelter and peace of a monastery. For that matter, being at a non-religious monastery doesn't preclude him from being a ninja or a swordsage, either. They are all martial disciplines, just with a different focus.</p><p></p><p>Hope that helps. <3 monks!</p><p></p><p>Edit: A monk that views religious people as weak-willed and weak-minded would be absolutely fitting, not out of place at all. "Why look outside yourself for strength when all the power you could need can be channeled through your ki? Foolish cleric! Your god can forsake you. My Art never will."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MongooseFamiliar, post: 3261723, member: 48667"] [b]Unarmed.[/b] If you have access to the Tome of Battle you can use the unarmed Swordsage variation. You could probably do a ninja variant the same way, losing the poison proficiencies in favor of unarmed or something. The sudden strike would work as long as you did lethal damage rather than subdual. A fighter with the right feats could also do some wicked damage with the right feats. That said, not all monks are associated with religions or temples. Many of them are, in fact, not religious at all. PHB: 'A monk's training is her spiritual path. She is inner directed and capable of a private, mystic connection to the spiritual world, she needs neither clerics nor gods." Monks are also reknowned for looking past a person's heritage, family, and so forth and judging him or her on his merits rather than anything else. If your character's family is outcast, that might be reason enough for him to seek the shelter and peace of a monastery. For that matter, being at a non-religious monastery doesn't preclude him from being a ninja or a swordsage, either. They are all martial disciplines, just with a different focus. Hope that helps. <3 monks! Edit: A monk that views religious people as weak-willed and weak-minded would be absolutely fitting, not out of place at all. "Why look outside yourself for strength when all the power you could need can be channeled through your ki? Foolish cleric! Your god can forsake you. My Art never will." [/QUOTE]
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