Talk:Pawns (Dragon's Dogma Quest)/@comment-6298283-20140325212854/@comment-11512868-20140327023628

I dunno what everyone's obsession with monk-type vocations is... I personally think it kinda removes the suspension of disbelief... "Hai! I'm gunna punch this cyclops in the eye, 'kay? ^_^" It makes me wonder too why other vocations would need weapons when the monk doesn't... must be because it's so 1337.

Despite what Final Fantasy and Dungeons & Dragons tries to push, monks really don't fit into the medieval model that most fantasy settings are based on either. Unarmed combatants are more of an oriental thing, really. Of course, we've also got ninjas in both main DD and DDQ, and we also appear to have samurai and Indiana Jones-esque treasure hunters in DDQ... so it appears DD's aesthetics are mostly medieval with a pinch of "whatever else is 'awesome.'"

Stuff like that bothers me, personally... heck, I'm not even happy about the mixture of ancient Greek and medieval mythological monsters, but that's probably just me being too picky.