Making a monk, I want to make one that's more introspective than punchy...

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The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.

Do everything with a mind that lets go. Do not expect praise or reward.

Hatred of evil does not diminish evil, it increases it.

Better than a thousand hollow words is one that brings peace.

Have peace in the process and joy in the journey.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself. It's thinking of yourself less.

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

Anyone got half-orc monks?

>I'll punch you in the teeth you unenlightened little shit

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the highest skill. To defeat the enemy without fighting is the highest skill. -Sun Tzu's Ersat in your campaign.

"We all have time to either spend or waste, and it is our decision what to do with it, but once past, it is gone forever." -I think this was Bruce Lee but I could be wrong.

"Bitches ain't nothin' but hos an tricks." -Gandalf the Grey.

“The angry man will defeat himself in battle as well as in life.”

“A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action.”

“Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation. —LAO-TZU”

Make it up as you go. It will be more natural like that.

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"Water which is too pure has no fish."

"Clinging to anger is like drinking poison and expecting someone else to die."

"One blind man leads many blind men."

"To become a sage, one must first become a novice."

"The blind man does not fear the snake."

"Like monkeys trying to snatch the moon's reflection from the water."

Most of these come from Lafcadio Hearn's book "In Ghostly Japan." There's a chapter of Buddhist Proverbs.

even the best archer without a target is nothing

also try quoting sun tzu

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"A cornered fox is more dangerous than a jackal."

"The only good nigger is a dead nigger."

>Humility is not thinking less of yourself. It's thinking of yourself less
reminds me of
>pride is not the opposite of shame but its source, true humility is the only antidote to shame

And then he died. Young.

Don't think. Feel.

>making a monk,

Have fun sucking

maybe take a look on what budhism says?

In some systems being a monk doesn't suck.

actually that one is quite stupid

Rather than just having a few canned quotes, it might be worthwhile to scratch out a proper set of guidelines for your character. Then make your character embody those standards unwaveringly. Have him advise by pulling straight from those rules.
Works also for paladins.

Don't think or feel. Just be.

Master race.
>making a monk without base 20 STR

The willow knows what the storm does not--that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.

This. It'll make you character feel several times more organic.

Don't play monks in 3.PF, they are literally gimped

"In an hour of darkness, a blind man is the best guide. In an age of insanity, look to the madman to show the way."

Fuck monks and their fancy BS

It's all about the rough and tumble brawler

"Behind every face, there is a skeleton"

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence" ~ Calvin Coolidge

I like the idea of different monk fighting styles granting attack bonuses based on another attribute. A Wisdom fighting style that relys on throws and Matrix-like dodging, a bonebreaking martial art that relys on Intelligence, and a spellchecking martial art that can tell my derp ass how to spell the word 'relies' like a normal person instead of the pantsshitting mongoloid i apparently am

/thread

Act free of doubt
Find your center
Master yourself, master the enemy
Waste not a minute
Force is meaningless without skill
Anger gives motivation without purpose
Form before strength
The focused mind can pierce through stone
Do not let pride blind you
Doubt is the greatest enemy
A true master is an eternal student

"People say, "If you can't beat'em, join'em". I say, "If you can't beat'em, beat'em. Because they'll be expecting you to join'em and you'll have the element of surprise!"

"Play with fire and you'll burn your fingers and lose your hold on the flame"

These don't sound like wise monk sayings. These sound like a quirky XD loose cannon's take on sayings.

>rough and tumble brawler

>Pic is a man with an unblemished face, dapper waistcoat, neatly groomed mustache and perfectly combed hair in a modern style that would get in his eyes a lot.

more like rum and tumbler
looks like a barman that just got stabbed in the shoulder

The man who buggers a fire, burns his penis

The first one seems more like a barbarian/low INT fighter saying.

>teach a man to make fire, and he will be warm for a lifetime
>teach a man to make hellfire, and he will burn for an eternity in the flames of Baator

But all fighters are low int. Every class but wizard is low int

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Or rogue.

>If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Then stab 'em in the back.

These are actually quite terrible.

I am the mountain; unyielding.
I am the storm; unrelenting.

>Only when a mosquito lands on your testicles, does a man see there is a peaceful solution to every situation

"Not all that is thought need be said, not all that is said need be written, not all that is written need be published, and not all that is published need be read."
"Just as it is the way of an ape to imitate humans, so too, a person, when he has become old, imitates himself, and does what was his manner previously."

"Knowing something can be done is half the battle."
"You can observe a lot by watching."
"Forget the years, forget distinctions. Leap into the boundless and make it your home!"
"A frog in a well cannot conceive of the ocean."
"You cannot control your environment, but you can control yourself."
"An ounce of luck can go farther than a pound of wisdom."
"Safe and sound in its shell, the precious pearl is the slave of the currents"
"To win against an opponent stronger than yourself, you must not be weaker than that opponent."
"The law doesn't protect people. People protect the law."

“If you take something by force there is never enough. If you share it , there will always be something left over.”
“When It Rains, Be in the Rain. When It's Windy, Be in the Wind”
"If you spend all your time only thinking,
The sun will set."

A good quote would be "Ohhh wee Timmy, we are all children of the Morning Lord" in an Irish accent.

And if he is accosted by corrupt guards, you can go full Irish and just "BACK OFF SON, YOU POINT THAT AT ME AGAIN AND I'LL DROP YA, YA TWAT! NOW JOG OFF. YOU TOO, YA PRICK!"

Sorry, I've always thought that people playing Monks in a non quasi-Oriental Kwai Chang Cane riptoff to be more intriguing. Like Los Tiburon, for example

"Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do."
"The human being is directed to God, as to an end that surpasses the grasp of his reason."
"Better to illuminate than merely to shine; to deliver to others contemplated truths than merely to contemplate."
"To ask the proper question is half of knowing."

Those are more often classed under Clerics, no?

Nah. Guy with robes and a funny haircut punching the piss out of things works better with the Monk class.

>why?
>Hunnnh...
>BUT, WHY?

personally I'd go with spouting meaningless nonsense that sounds introspective

>We shall be like the Rock In the Rain
>But If we do, can we help, but not doing?
>As In the story of the leopard and the dog, we should be like the canary
>as a wise one once said, wear thermal undergarments

why not both?

"One man's bread is another man's death."
"The last paces are the heaviest."
"If you say A, you must also say B."
"The monkey in the highest tree bares his ass for all to see."
"To feel the power of the anchor, one must first brave the storm."
"What use are a candle and glasses, if the owl does not wish to see?"
"Don't sell the hide before you slay the bear."
"A new broom will clean well, but an old one knows all the nooks and crannies."
"Visitors always bring joy; if not in coming, then in going."
"Visitors and fish only last three days."
"When the fox is preaching, watch your chickens."
"A farmer with a toothache doesn't smile."
"High trees catch a lot of wind."
"Trees don't meet, humans do."
"Beans get what they deserve."
"You can't eat from a clean plate."
"If you've butter on your head, stay out of the sun."
"Crumbs are bread, too."
"Don't praise the day before evening falls."
"Even if it's not with the bride, you can still dance."
"Think before you do, and think while you're doing, too."
"Every cat is gray in the dark."
"If you knew everything in advance, you could travel the world with naught but a cent."
"Better to turn halfway than to go wrong the whole way."
"If each hand washes the other, they both become clean."
"If you sell yourself as a dog, you have to chew the bones."
"Early rise gives gold in the mouth."

These expressions courtesy of the Dutch language, translated by user.

>how so?
>wait... how?
>when?
Has anyone really been far as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

>"I am one with the force"
"I am one with the force"
>"I am one with the force"

Also; They all die at the end. Darth vader fight is cool though. Leia CGI is nice too.

underrated post

>Crumbs are bread too
>Visitors and fish only last three days
>What use are a candle and glasses if the owl does not wish to see?

took way longer than i expected for an angry fatguy to waddle into the thread and vomit up a meme about how it's impossible to enjoy playing a class they don't enjoy playing.

We don't say prick or twat that often,that's more an English thing, insert cunt/bastard/ejit instead.

Side note for the American, twat is not pronounced as twot. I've never understood this. the 'at' is pronounced like the 'at' in 'at' not the 'at' in nothing ever.

look up 36 lessons of vivec

I've never heard anyone pronounce it as twot, and I'm American. Is it a regional thing?

I think he means that we say "twaht" instead of "twAT."

And he's right, I've always heard it that way.

youtube.com/watch?v=JBqPkMQ2ToU&t=28s
That's the kinda pronunciation I'm thinking of. Stop it. It sounds like an 'o'.

In an accident that had nothing to do with the limits he set on himself.

What about the follow up?

"It's like a finger pointing the way to the moon, don't focus on the finger, or you'll miss all that heavenly glory."

Except the pain limit that made him give up and take pain meds.

"Monk only pawn in great game of life."

He had cerebral edema and died from complications involving both that and a reaction to meprobamate.

Taking an aspirin (equivalent) when you have a headache is pretty reasonable, imo.

>Leia CGI is nice too.
I mean, she usually wasn't as uncanny valley as zombie Peter Cushing, but she swung between good and bad A LOT in the 10 seconds of screen time she got.

Yer a roight fookin' cunt, m8

I usually do something like that for motivations, I didn't think to apply it to wise sayings, but that's a great idea.

I've always had fun with them, but my DMs have usually been Rule-Of-Cool based. my last one was a Vanaran Monk who used a grappling hook and rope to break into the current enemy's sanctum at the top of a tower then abused the grappling rules to, pile-drive the asshole from 5 stories in the air.