Who mugged the Sword Sage?

[Nifft]

I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but swordsages can't do that. Most of the shadow hand stuff is supernatural.

Oddly enough, the [Teleport] maneuvers are not supernatural.

Cheers, -- N

 

[VirgilCaine]

Oddly enough, the [Teleport] maneuvers are not supernatural.

Cheers, -- N

Oh, that's what he means. Wow, people don't know about that?

That was one of the first things I noticed when I read them.

 

[Baby Samurai]

Nonsense.

Once again another rude person talking out of their bottom.

…Depressing.

 

[Imp]

Martial artist is a bit ill-defined too. Most fighters in d&d fit the definition of a martial artist, so would a lot of characters oriented around physical combat (as opposed to magical). Of course the same can be said of naming a class 'fighter'.

Yeah and theoretically monk could just be rolled into fighter entirely, with special "prestige paths" or whatever they're calling it now to cover some of the superhuman stuff, I'd be fine with that actually, it's all kind of fuzzy. Though piling on talent trees could become overly burdensome at some point. But at least "martial artist" doesn't carry the wrong definitions. It's a bit more mystical and self-actualizationish, and less straight-up shock-troop badass, so it fits the idea in my mind. Still it's two words so it's probably out.

I think this might be one of those cases, just like with most d&d classes, where there isn't a clear best choice for the name.

Yup. It's gonna be monk.