Okay, so the Deva is the Aasimar then.

But I loved the Monk. My favorite character was a Monk. It was an Avariel (Winged Elf) Monk, and I had him demolish my last group I played in years ago.

I ran with this one group of "friends", but I had a feeling they didn't really like me all that much since I seemed to have gotten into the D&D thing later and was always upbeat and happy when the game day was coming, and I could talk constantly about wanting to play more or having ideas for characters..

..anyway, what happen was that I was flying along with the party, and one of the members was riding a Gryphon for some reason (can't remember if it was caught, or bought, or whatever the reason was). I was told that it was acting a little wild and that it might throw the rider, so I flew up to try to help out, the person flying was losing control, the people on the ground suddenly thought I was attacking the one on the Gryphon. I was yelling down that I am just trying to help her control the thing, and they kept trying to attack me.

They were using ranged attacks since I was in the air, but being a Monk as well, I was able to deflect a lot of it. I then proceeded to use my longspear to get dive attacks on them until they were all out cold. I tended to their wounds so they wouldn't die. I stripped them all naked of all their belongings, threw it all into the bags of holding they liked carrying along, and then I tied them all to a tree at the side of a road wearing nothing, and I let their mounts run away.

Being that my Monk was one of those "Vow of Poverty" (and some other vows) flavored Monks, I mostly sold all their stuff and then donated most of the money to churches and orphanages and whatnot. But I also slightly broke my vow of poverty, yet at the same time I don't think I did. Some of the money I used to construct a tower in the middle of a forest that you could only access by flight. It looked like any other tree, just a bit bigger up top, and the inside was nothing special. It was basically a cave on a stick so things couldn't get me.

Stopped playing that character, and stopped playing with that group, and stopped playing all together after that night.

SkilGalen said:

I looked up Monks for 4E. Looks like there is going to be a PHB 3 with complete line of “ki” (eastern power source classes, with the monk being the defining class, pictured prominently on the cover of the book. PHB2 is mostly primal/nature/spirit classes so it kind of makes sense though a bit frustrating when you have to get so many books to have all bases covered.

Looks like the monk and PHB3 will be previewed in May.

@Parinitis: Maybe you should borrow PHB3 when it comes out and give 4E a try

Woo!  Looks like there's hope for me to bring up my favourite never-played 3.5 character to 4th!  Snooth, the halfling monk who worships the flying spaghetti monster*.

*- Contrary to popular belief no alcohol was involved in creating this character or concept.  At least not on my part, upon hearing of it or the backstory people often feel the need for a drink and/or bleach to the brain.

SkilGalen said:

heh, arcane powers book is out next month. Not sure if thats good or bad really. Seems like there really is a new book every month. I guess if your into the magic it's good and there is a preview on the wizards site that shows some of the new feats.

Yep, and then May sees the second monster manual, June the Eberron campaign guide, July the Eberron players guide and the Divine Power book, Adventurers Vault #2 in August, September the second DMG, October the Primal Power book…

It just keeps going on and on with adding "Core" books.