Lang Lorenz |
Why Bluff?
Anyway, if you think he gets too much skills
with Diplomacy, Heal, and Knowedge(religion),
just drop Ride and Swim.
Ride? On a horse? To be slower?
Because "The journey is the reward."? :)
And Swim? I can't recall a single Eastern
with swimming Monks. If they encounter water,
they run across it's surface or even fight on it.
That's an /ability/ worth considering IMO.
LL
Lang Lorenz |
Lang Lorenz wrote:This is taken from the common chinese martial arts tactic of creating distractions to gain an advantage. A monk who has a good charisma might choose to use bluff to feint in combat as a part of his combat tactics.Why Bluff?
<slaps forehead>
On second thought its embarrassingly obvious.
It's needed for (Improved) Feint, which is
quite appropriate for drunken and monkey
style kung fu.
LL
LazarX |
Why did the monk lose diplomacy as a class skill?
Surely the wise monk who tries to talk before resorting to violence is a trope worth keeping.
Gary
Characters who spend thier time sealed away from the world aren't going to be espcially geared for diplomacy. Same reason that diplomacy isn't a class skill for wizards.
quest-master |
Characters who spend thier time sealed away from the world aren't going to be espcially geared for diplomacy. Same reason that diplomacy isn't a class skill for wizards.
Actually being sealed away with a number of other monks might gear the monk even more for diplomacy. There are inevitable arguments and possibly violence when you have to live with the same people day after day after day with nowhere else to go.
If the monk practices a pacifist philosophy, then diplomacy would be key to avoiding fights whenever possible. The martial arts comes in when diplomacy fails.