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Message: <blockquote data-quote="genshou" data-source="post: 2992758" data-attributes="member: 13164">You're just like your mother!  I want out.<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />Oh, I definitely don't disagree that it doesn't fit.  No argument there.  I guess all folks vary in how much they're willing to work with that not-fitting to fix the problem.  I like Monks, so I'll go pretty far. <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=":)" />Hmm, your right.  What I posted does imply that a bit.  Perhaps I should clarify.While in the US we have more free time and freedom in general, I just mean that the fact that these things have become so popular is an indication that a lot of people seek such things out.  Humans aren't like animals; they often need some kind of religion or spiritual stuff in general to fill a void in their lives that occurs as a result of their self-awareness.  Meditation and deep self-reflection is one way people fill that void.  Among members of the aristocracy in a D&D setting (which is where I think the majority of PC-classed individuals would come from), training in a monastery would be an easier thing to do, especially since the King won't shut it down if they're only teaching the nobility how to fight without weapons.  Teaching peasants?  That might be a problem.I like to think of a monastery as being like a Fighter's training camp or Wizard's school.  It's not your ordinary warrior's training, and it's also not very common.  When I think of monasteries dotted across the landscape, I like to think of that as meaning one or two per kingdom, since that makes more sense with standard D&D's demographics, and how long it takes to train as a Monk.  Those 300 monks who live within the kingdom's borders?  Retired adventurers or just people who learned how to fight pretty well, but settled down in the kingdom for whatever reason and now live quiet lives amongst the rest of humanity.  Maybe the local high-level Monk teaches a yoga class. <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" />Can I hug you?  And put that in my sig?  That illustrates one of the things I bring up most in discussions about magic and its effects on D&D worlds as a whole.  The PCs can't see the forest for the trees, and that gives the players misconceptions.But please, let's not threadjack too much about the availability of D&D magic, etc. and get back to Oriental stuff.  We're still getting going after the katana threadjack. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" /></blockquote>

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