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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8725458" data-attributes="member: 18">They're kind of one and the same, though. The Monk chassis is overloaded with very specific abilities because it's based on Shaolin Monk myths specifically (it's the only class in 5E remaining with a specific singular real-world myth origin-point - even Druids are much broader).This overloading of the chassis is why Monks have basically no options, and why the whole &quot;spam Stunning Strike&quot; thing exists. It's why the Monk subclasses are so mechanically weak (even when thematically strong) and offer so little, because so much is in the main chassis, and it's devoted to this singular goal of simulating Shaolin Monks, like this was 1975.I doubt most players today are even actively aware that it's a Shaolin thing specifically, note, because that myth has basically dropped out of pop culture entirely (Shaolin Soccer is about as close as you're going to get) aside from aficionados of ageing action movies, and not even most of those, because it's a '70s thing, and people usually only go back to the '80s with bad action movies. They probably just think it's &quot;weirdly specific&quot;.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8725458, member: 18"] They're kind of one and the same, though. The Monk chassis is overloaded with very specific abilities because it's based on Shaolin Monk myths specifically (it's the only class in 5E remaining with a specific singular real-world myth origin-point - even Druids are much broader). This overloading of the chassis is why Monks have basically no options, and why the whole "spam Stunning Strike" thing exists. It's why the Monk subclasses are so mechanically weak (even when thematically strong) and offer so little, because so much is in the main chassis, and it's devoted to this singular goal of simulating Shaolin Monks, like this was 1975. I doubt most players today are even actively aware that it's a Shaolin thing specifically, note, because that myth has basically dropped out of pop culture entirely (Shaolin Soccer is about as close as you're going to get) aside from aficionados of ageing action movies, and not even most of those, because it's a '70s thing, and people usually only go back to the '80s with bad action movies. They probably just think it's "weirdly specific". [/QUOTE]

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