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<blockquote data-quote="Wolfen Priest" data-source="post: 286831" data-attributes="member: 3909">Well, here's a proposition (and if no one takes it up I will do so myself when I get home): make a 32 point-buy monk (any race) at 10th level (or 12th or some other fairly arbitrary but high level) and equip him from the DMG with the amount of starting cash available to that level-character.&nbsp; Then do the same for a fighter (any race).&nbsp; So, the class abilities, stat bonuses, and (perhaps most relevant to this discussion) magic items will all be taken into account.&nbsp; It will settle (hopefully) the following dispute/question:&nbsp; is the monk's need for better stats compensated by his lack of need for magical weaponry?&nbsp; In other words, since the monk presumably won't have to shell out the bucks for armor and weapons (although this may still be in doubt, according to some), he could therefore buy other, more valuable things (or just more things), and thus get more for his money, so to speak.Anyone willing to go through all that?&nbsp; If not, I'll do it when I get home and post my results here.&nbsp; Although that's not to say there couldn't be numerous other &quot;submissions.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wolfen Priest, post: 286831, member: 3909"] Well, here's a proposition (and if no one takes it up I will do so myself when I get home): make a 32 point-buy monk (any race) at 10th level (or 12th or some other fairly arbitrary but high level) and equip him from the DMG with the amount of starting cash available to that level-character. Then do the same for a fighter (any race). So, the class abilities, stat bonuses, and (perhaps most relevant to this discussion) magic items will all be taken into account. It will settle (hopefully) the following dispute/question: is the monk's need for better stats compensated by his [i]lack of need[/i] for magical weaponry? In other words, since the monk presumably won't have to shell out the bucks for armor and weapons (although this may still be in doubt, according to some), he could therefore buy other, more valuable things (or just [i]more[/i] things), and thus get more for his money, so to speak. Anyone willing to go through all that? If not, I'll do it when I get home and post my results here. Although that's not to say there couldn't be numerous other "submissions." [/QUOTE]

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