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<blockquote data-quote="Mecheon" data-source="post: 8986992" data-attributes="member: 6801776"><p>Precedent in D&D maybe, but that hasn't been used in over 30 years, whereas the wider fantasy audience out there has monk set in stone as 'the martial artist'. When all of the major MMOs (Everquest, Guild Wars, WoW and FFXIV all have a monk), and frankly 30 years of D&D at this point, call it 'Monk', you're fighting against massive innertia on that front. If the monk was renamed mystic, people would just be confused and asking why this isn't called the Monk instead. Its going to be absolutely grinding against new player expectations and not in a good way.</p><p></p><p>Also it isn't really much but I did ask my friend who doesn't know D&D stuff what they'd expect a Mystic to do and they said cast spells and, not have anything to do with martial arts or fist-fighting. So despite D&D using it, its not really an appropriate name as it doesn't invoke what they're doing. 30 years of fantasy gaming has gotten people used to 'monks use fist fighting' as an idea, whereas the closest for mystic is a Onmyōji or Pathfinder's Oracle.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mecheon, post: 8986992, member: 6801776"] Precedent in D&D maybe, but that hasn't been used in over 30 years, whereas the wider fantasy audience out there has monk set in stone as 'the martial artist'. When all of the major MMOs (Everquest, Guild Wars, WoW and FFXIV all have a monk), and frankly 30 years of D&D at this point, call it 'Monk', you're fighting against massive innertia on that front. If the monk was renamed mystic, people would just be confused and asking why this isn't called the Monk instead. Its going to be absolutely grinding against new player expectations and not in a good way. Also it isn't really much but I did ask my friend who doesn't know D&D stuff what they'd expect a Mystic to do and they said cast spells and, not have anything to do with martial arts or fist-fighting. So despite D&D using it, its not really an appropriate name as it doesn't invoke what they're doing. 30 years of fantasy gaming has gotten people used to 'monks use fist fighting' as an idea, whereas the closest for mystic is a Onmyōji or Pathfinder's Oracle. [/QUOTE]
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