harpy
2009-12-31, 02:46 PM
In my ongoing series of questions on "Why did the 3E designers decide to do X?" Now I turn to the Monk and the curious lack of Uncanny Dodge and Improved Uncanny Dodge.
It fits with Rogues and Barbarians, but thematically it also fits with Monk, who'd you think, being the wisdom based classed oriented around "being present in the moment" type of flavor, would be a natural candidate for both of these class features.
Is it that the 3E designers saw all the class features the Monk was getting and thought, "we can't give them those also, it would be unfair for the Rogue and Barbarian!" or perhaps "We need to distinguish between the classes and so to make the Rogue and Barbarian more special, we'll withhold it from the Monk."
It's been a head scratcher for me for quite some time, and now after a decade it's quite clear that the Monk is a bit behind a lot of the other classes, and so now it seems even more odd that it was left off their class sheet.
It fits with Rogues and Barbarians, but thematically it also fits with Monk, who'd you think, being the wisdom based classed oriented around "being present in the moment" type of flavor, would be a natural candidate for both of these class features.
Is it that the 3E designers saw all the class features the Monk was getting and thought, "we can't give them those also, it would be unfair for the Rogue and Barbarian!" or perhaps "We need to distinguish between the classes and so to make the Rogue and Barbarian more special, we'll withhold it from the Monk."
It's been a head scratcher for me for quite some time, and now after a decade it's quite clear that the Monk is a bit behind a lot of the other classes, and so now it seems even more odd that it was left off their class sheet.