Monk orders
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Hi,
i plan on creating a monk who belongs to a monk order and i got few questions:
1. What different ranks are available in a monk order?
2. Am i allowed to put my character at lowest possible rank in the order on creation or do i have to plot IG to gain membership?
Thanks in advance.
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Information on Monk Orders themselves can be found here.
As for your other question I believe an application is required for Official Membership to any canon organisation, whether Monks are the exception I’ll leave to the DMs to clarify.
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Monks are not an exception. If there is anything in your background that requires NPCs to know about you, of you, or offer you support–which could apply to canon organizations of any kind--you need to apply.
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@Frith:
Information on Monk Orders themselves can be found here.
Is this canon? These orders names don't match those I know in respect to the different deities. Plus it says a monk can multiclass as a barb. wtf?
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Monks usually don't follow gods perse. They usually follow Concepts.
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@Frith:
Information on Monk Orders themselves can be found here.
Is this canon? These orders names don't match those I know in respect to the different deities. Plus it says a monk can multiclass as a barb. wtf?
Yea, those don't look good. Never seen those names mentioned before.
On playing monks in general: /topic/30
These are the ones from the FR handbook (which are listed at the CoA website above, but copied over to the ToM website later and in a much more readable format.)
http://www.talesofmoonsea.com/iMonk.phpI would ask a DM in irc or something before taking that as CoA canon though.
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There are monk orders who follow gods, but do not look to the god for power or worship them.
They look to the ideals of a god as a representative of the "Supreme being" each monk seeks to become, but very few monks actually achieve.
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Monks usually don't follow gods perse. They usually follow Concepts.
Not in the Forgotten Realms. In the Realms, they follow deities, partially because deities in the Forgotten Realms represent Concepts.
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There are monk orders who follow gods, but do not look to the god for power or worship them.
They look to the ideals of a god as a representative of the "Supreme being" each monk seeks to become, but very few monks actually achieve.
This is incorrect for the Forgotten Realms, with the exception of Monks of the Old Order. The majority of monks worship gods in this setting, their worship may be different from priests–they don't seek to pray to the gods--but rather to understand-often-a single god completely by dedicating mind, body, and spirit to the deity and what it represents.
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Make your own order.
Involve jam.
Win CoA
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There are monk orders who follow gods, but do not look to the god for power or worship them.
They look to the ideals of a god as a representative of the "Supreme being" each monk seeks to become, but very few monks actually achieve.
This is incorrect for the Forgotten Realms, with the exception of Monks of the Old Order. The majority of monks worship gods in this setting, their worship may be different from priests–they don't seek to pray to the gods--but rather to understand-often-a single god completely by dedicating mind, body, and spirit to the deity and what it represents.
What about the order of the long death. I Read that they do not serve a god and velsharoon was looking for a ways to court them but not suceeded. Plus i thought from what little info i could dig up on them they were against undeath in general as it perverts the natural cycle of death that they revere as a concept.
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Greencastle sells Order of the Greedy Fist robes now…just sayin'.
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There are monk orders who follow gods, but do not look to the god for power or worship them.
They look to the ideals of a god as a representative of the "Supreme being" each monk seeks to become, but very few monks actually achieve.
This is incorrect for the Forgotten Realms, with the exception of Monks of the Old Order. The majority of monks worship gods in this setting, their worship may be different from priests–they don't seek to pray to the gods--but rather to understand-often-a single god completely by dedicating mind, body, and spirit to the deity and what it represents.
What about the order of the long death. I Read that they do not serve a god and velsharoon was looking for a ways to court them but not suceeded. Plus i thought from what little info i could dig up on them they were against undeath in general as it perverts the natural cycle of death that they revere as a concept.
Most of them revere Kelemvor as the embodiment of death, or Velsharoon, or Jergal at least–some god of death--regardless of its name.
This is the Forgotten Realms, remember, if you do not worship a god then you are punished by being built into the Wall of the Faithless and having the very substance of your soul destroyed.
While many just and goodly folk object to this punishment, all acknowledge it is real and will happen and so only the most foolhardy actually refuse to worship some god.
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Sooo, the odds of playing a multiclass that isn't on that list aaaare?
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I'm pretty sure they always go from first to last.
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Is it possible for someone to send me a list of monk orders? All the sites for such things like that are blocked here at work.
Also, is "making up" your own order, allowed? And, if you make up your own monk order, would multi-classing then be allowed? (DMs answer only, please)
