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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nyaricus" data-source="post: 2992698" data-attributes="member: 35678">It was so dead; long weeekend + a Sunday shift (being right in the middle of said long weekend) equals no one coming to get gas. Oh well <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />The table doesn't work, but the class is indeed cool <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> One of the best EN World HR classes, IMO.Well, if there is no Japanese analogue, then don't include them. I don't have monks in my campaigns for the same reasons."Dotted across the landscape there are monasteries - small, walled cloisters inhabited by monks who personal perfect through actiosn as well as contemplation"It's the first line of the monk class and implies an obviously, ahem, "well-travelled" tradtion of shaolin monks. And they aren't getting anywhere near my campaigns! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />The honeymoon is over <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />Oh, I completely agree that benedictine monks could fit in, that isn;t the problem (heck, the first campaign I ran had an abandoned Monastery with a hill giant and a few orcs in it <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />) But what I am saying is where there should be one type of monastery, there is another which is a square peg trying to fit in a triangular hole. This isn't even a situation where one might be able to make it fit in, if badly. It just doesn't fit.Genshou, there are several problems in that. The USA is a modern, melding-pot country. It's very different than what medieval europe would be like. Self defense? Call upon your lord to rally up his men-at-arms to do battle. Peaceful contemplation? That wasn't really on the plate for 90% of europe population, don't you think? I doubt the other 10% aren't monks, either.Magic is definitly a large factor in D&D cultures, but I don't necessarily think D&D gets it "right". With clerics being able to cast all these wonderful spells, but with all these terrible beasties around, the world would be a very different place if these things are true; that's why these things are the exception rather than the rule. I guess, since you play the heroes in D&D, it's hard to see the forest for the trees - the fact that you are the exception rather than the rule.</blockquote>

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