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cskolos 08-31-04, 01:01 AM	One of the DMs in my group has a tendency to over use the "your gear is all stolen in the night" adventure hook. To the point where I designed a monk that used unarmed strikes exclusively. With much prodding by the DM, I was convinced that I should purchasing a few monk weapons. A process that too about 30mins of role-playing. You may guess what happened next, the group wastes the remainder of the loot on *****s and expensive rooms, only to awake to find that the local thieves guild has taken everything. (The NPC we had been traveling with had trouble in this town before apparently.) The players were not impressed at the poor timing and repetitive use of an annoying plot device. My plan with my monk is to role play the Vow of Poverty, taking the theft as a sign, he'll forgo most material possessions. (It would hardly be Voluntary Poverty in this case.) For future campaigns I would request that the Exalted Feats be allowed and Create a Human ascetic. Taking Sacred Vow and Vow of Poverty at first level. Thus my questions what Class and feats would combine best? Source books available would be PHB3.5, DMG3.5, MM3.5, BoVD, and BoED. (i.e. expect the monsters and villains to use the "evil" sources and the player use the "good" sources) What do you recommend?
Nuntius128 08-31-04, 01:23 AM	Hmm... karma. Not a bad way to roleplay getting Vow of Poverty. Though I don't understand why you bought the Monk weapons at all, or really what you're asking. Try not to emphasize so much on the power of your character, but on who your character is. Example: A Monk with Vow of Poverty. Yeah, VoP is extremely powerful, but what does it mean? Does it mean that your character cares so much for the well-being of others that he denies himself all comforts of the material world? Or maybe your character has a pathological fear of magic, and seeks to use the power within himself to destroy it? Maybe your character is very arrogant or self-assured to the point where he knows he has no need for the "magic cushion"? Whatever you choose, keep in mind that anyone can make a super powerful character with super powerul feats and skills for every occasion, but how interesting is the character if you do that? And if you really like VoP, you're not restricted to the Monk class. Paladins for example? Perhaps a Don-Quixote style character, an old man with a rusty suit of armor and a rusty sword, neither of which are really that great, but both are special to him. Shaman? Shamans are just Clerics and Monks in one case. The list goes on. Just because a character does everything doesn't make it good, as I've said many times.