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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Eloi" data-source="post: 2657567" data-attributes="member: 27826">The Monk is, in my opinion, the best match for the Vow of Poverty, and that Vow goes a long way towards making a Monk capable of really getting into the thick of things without hogging the magic items to do so.In fact, the DM's job gets easier, because he no longer has to think about making sure the Monk gets something nice. It'll all be moot - the Monk's share of the treasure is a cash amount, that gets poured straight into the Church coffers and never seen again. (Yes, we figure out how much the magic treasure is worth, and we buy out the Monk's share first so he can lead the party's groaning burro [not his, he hasn't got one] away to the Church for unloading.)The fact that your Monk cannot and will not have magic items makes computing so simple of just how tough your foes need to be.. so very simple. You can't even use a Ring of Wishes. The DM is free to taunt you with such things, and you can't budge.Unfortunately, as far as your DM goes, if he's ticked about your nice AC bonus and splendid rack of Exalted feats, he does get to say what is and what is not ok. If you spend character-level-appropriate amounts of gold to equip yourself, your armor class is coming down, and you'll need to obtain a magic weapon for those times nothing less than magic will do. (You can probably wait on buying one, though.) 88,000 gold at 12th level won't replace the neat stat boosts, but you may be able to improve your Wisdom and Strength enough to partially compensate, and then perhaps bracers to cover the gap. You'll be able to afford to have Enlarge cast permanently on you, if you like, and Greater Magic Fang (go find a level 20 Druid caster, if you can). Nab a Ring of Invisibility for 20k, and you should be kind of ok.Good luck with that - I hope your GM reconsiders. Have your list of purchases ready to go in case he doesn't, though.</blockquote>

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