Monks! A Way of Life?

[h3avenzrezurect]

Hello fellow members, gms, and friends. Today I have come to you, to reveal, my idea!

Monks are brought up throughout Warcraft, not too mention there being a few NPCs with the title. I want to lay out the possibility of allowing a Monk Rp. Okay! So first of all, I'd like to speak of how this could work. Monks rarely use weapons, this contradiction brought up with the Bo-staff. Monks nearly no armor, other then their traditional martial arts uniforms. Due to being unarmored, Monks have an upper edge in their agile-structure and speed. Through a lifetime of Martial Arts, their sects original fighting style, balanced with meditation and education, a Monk is held high. They are often seen worldwide as traveling adventures, questing the world in hopes of furthering their knowledge.

Monks, could be the lesser form of a Runemaster. Though there is no guarantee of becoming one, due to it being a prestige class title, I would find it quite unique and interesting as would others I've brought it up with about this rp.

No, this doesn't mean every monk is a Runemaster in training, just a mere thing it could stretch into, a back-story of why the person would qualify for the title.

I am trying to get this taken under heavy consideration, and perhaps an approval from the GMs, so I may begin my little entourage. My idea is to create an organization/group which explores the world's diversity after breaking away from sects of their primer monk-circles to join up with each other. Combined, they would travel in parties, in search of enlightenment, perhaps lending a hand to the troubled people of Azeroth as they reach their time of need. Monks take root of the alignments; Lawful Neutral, Lawful Evil, and Lawful Good. The individual fighting style of these monks is a sacred bestowal, from years of training. They will never teach outsiders, though few exceptions are taken. Those who train under the same art are considered brothers.

Please leave comments, this is merely my prototype of how it could work. I am open to possibilities/restrictions. I'd even like to discuss it further with a Gm, though I have already taken this underhand with Kretol. I have not gotten an approval or decline of this.

[Nostra]

Hm, but why Runemasters? Monks feel like more of the religious type to, even though they would fight more like a runemaster they still seem more like priest or paladin material to me.

[Brutalskars]

Ok, monks and runemasters are different by one major thing. The monk uses spiritual conditioning and the runemaster, well, studies runes.

Runemasters NEVER use weapons of ANY sort but their hands/runes.

Monks use their hands as well as, staves, shorter baton like instruments like the tonfa and the like.

Some monks used some blades as well but only in the forms of shurikens and things like hoop blades(And you will only see a hoop blade in Pandaria, since they only produced there.)

The best monks are pandarians hands down but we do not need to worry about that on the server since there is no interaction.
There is no 'best' runemasters though, and you actually will find more runemasters than monks wandering around.

So here arises the question are runemaster and monk part of the core classes now or are they going to be special profiles?

[Theik]

Runemasters were actually the class they made to replace Monks, to try and remove all the similarities between normal DnD and Warcraft D20.
The only real reference I've seen to actual monks are the ones in the Scarlet Monastery

But on the subject of 'best runemasters', I'd really have to say Tauren and Dwarves are the most likely ones. Taurens rediscovered it after the dwarves forgot about it for ages, the dwarves who came with Jaina learned its arts again from the Tauren, who were more than willing to share titan knowledge and non-corrupting magic.


But it seems a bit hard to make them a core class.
It would require a lot of work to get them to work, it's not like you could make a Tauren warrior and put a Runemaster stamp on it, they'd need additional skills, and I have no clue how you'd add the traditional body tattoos on them either.

[Brutalskars]

Demon hunter tattoos are the closest item you can get to give the look. At least that I can think of.

[Theik]

It does look relatively convincing, but it would still require quite a bit of GM assistance to get it working.

[Brutalskars]

Hint stick to red and green marks only. Black runes would be only really for use by demonhunters.
So your good on that too! Nice picture of a runemaster mate.

Still have to say it is easier to make a monk, minus if you want a gi or something very traditional.

[Nostra]

Runemasters are limited as prestige classes, monks seem to me simply be another kind of warrior so feel free to do that. As long as you don´t add some extra power/ability to them.

[Theik]

Actually, Runemaster is a core class from the Magic and Mayhem book. They're not a prestige class, something a lot of people seem to think for some reason.

[Nostra]

They are here though, due to not being incorporated as a class. The runemaster from the RPG got spells and abilities that you don´t have in a normal wow class.

We draw inspiration from the RPG, but this isn´t the RPG and there are differences, this is one of them.

[Gwenadrael]

it'd be interesting, I'd try it

[h3avenzrezurect]

Mm. . . Well, thank-you everyone for speaking out your opinion. After watching it upon making the thread, I was starting to get a little worried about it when it hadn't gotten a post for like a hour.

Moving on to the subject! I'd like to keep as hush as I could, to the religion/faith they believe in. Or else, lets say I made it the Holy Light. If I were to make a Sin'dorei, then only 'other' Sin'dorei could join due to cross-faction hatreds and only the Sin'dorei studying the light. Draenei have been too short-lived on Azeroth, and Humans. . . Would be alone just like the Sin'dorei. So yeah, I'd just like to simply say they seek 'Enlightenment' for the meantime.

About their class, I'd say they fall more-or-less under the characteristics of a Rogue then a Warrior, though if a Tauren were willing to participate in it it'd have to go Warrior. . .

[Harmonic]

I don't think a Blood Elf could do it. If you look on the wiki, they mention like, Pandaren and Draenei, and that's about it. And Scarlet Crusaders.

I think your best shot would be a Draenei.

[h3avenzrezurect]

I don't think a Blood Elf could do it. If you look on the wiki, they mention like, Pandaren and Draenei, and that's about it. And Scarlet Crusaders.

I think your best shot would be a Draenei.

In the Wiki, when you click on all the names of the monk NPCs. You see Humans and Draenei I suppose, and that is where you are assuming that Draenei(And Human) are really the only race you can pick up. There are many variations of being a Monk. Humans have been in contact with High/Blood Elves for many years not to mention many other races other then the Kal'dorei. I'm sure they could have spread their ideals around to one-another.

This whole group, rather then being focused on a religion or something of the above. It will be held under a Philosophy, if that could make anymore of a difference. Seeing as the Monks who band together, could still hold their faiths. But it would allow Cross-faction varieties to join the group, and overall, it'd just be pretty awesome.

[Harmonic]

Monks are culturally considered ascetic and studious. When Malygos is in humanoid form, he takes the shape of a studious monk or similar individual.S&L 91 Pandaren are formidable monks, following their philosophies to the letter and perfecting their martial arts as they see fit.A&HC 74-75 Runemasters are said to be monk-like as well.M&M 33 Monks can be found throughout Azeroth; some belong to the Scarlet Crusade, and others are found in the ranks of the draenei.

Taken from the wiki. However, upon thinking of it, a lot of Bloodelf Priests and Bloodknights once belonged to the Cathedral of light, so, this wouldn't be that odd of a concept.