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<blockquote data-quote="Guest 6801328" data-source="post: 8167326">I don't disagree with that.&nbsp; I'm not saying that the &quot;big muscular master of fisticuffs&quot; shouldn't have Strength, just that Dexterity is unnecessary to the concept.It's true that Wisdom is also unnecessary, but without Wisdom it doesn't feel monk-like, and including Dexterity makes it feel like...well, trying to get the best of all worlds.&nbsp; The monk is a combination of the physical and the mental.&nbsp; Switching it to physical-physical kind of defeats that.Ability scores can have different meanings.&nbsp; &quot;Wisdom&quot; score doesn't have to mean deeply reflective and full of clever Buddhist aphorisms.&nbsp; It could simply mean solid, unflappable, unafraid.&nbsp; In that sense it's very appropriate to the concept.And, really, if you also wanted to shed the idea of self-control, then I do would think you'd want a Barbarian subclass.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Guest 6801328, post: 8167326"] I don't disagree with that. I'm not saying that the "big muscular master of fisticuffs" shouldn't have Strength, just that Dexterity is unnecessary to the concept. It's true that Wisdom is [I]also[/I] unnecessary, but without Wisdom it doesn't feel monk-like, and including Dexterity makes it feel like...well, trying to get the best of all worlds. The monk is a combination of the physical and the mental. Switching it to physical-physical kind of defeats that. Ability scores can have different meanings. "Wisdom" score doesn't have to mean deeply reflective and full of clever Buddhist aphorisms. It could simply mean solid, unflappable, unafraid. In that sense it's very appropriate to the concept. And, really, if you also wanted to shed the idea of self-control, then I do would think you'd want a Barbarian subclass. [/QUOTE]

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