MAybe not exactly monks or anyting, but some type of martial art or something of the such. Just try not to make over powered.

Monk martial artists are kinda overdone in other IREs. Lusternia appears to be trying to keep things relatively unique when it comes to classes from other IREs.

True.
The dracnari denizens do punches and sidekicks though...

Actually I think if/when they do the Monk archetype, it will have some decent skill trees so we'll get some unique martial arts, people can pick styles like hard/soft, etc.

Oh, please don't encourage adding another guild or archetype now...
We're still working on piecing together the last ones!

I agree with Shorlen and Arkzrael's points, and also, some decent monk brainstorms and skillsets have already been proposed on the other pages of this forum.

Personally, I know we have NPC monks, but I don't really think it would fit in with Lusternia with the current usual archetype system.

I think Monk might be a good idea, since you can have a overall rp with the Tosha Monks who can teach each city/commune different styles. Also, I loved being a Daru in the Aetolia and could do it again!

Lusternia's guilds are not unqiue, none of them all. IRE is a coppycat in terms of Guilds, you can find any Lusternia guild on any other IRE mud.

AB MONKSKILL RUNAWAY
With this defense in place, anytime someone thinks about debating you, you will bolt in a random direction.

A lot of the lower level skills are similar to skills (usually higher up) from other IRE games, but the mere fact that any one guild usually has skill motifs from at least two other guilds, means that it isn't a "copycat" from one of the other games.

Mages, for example are like Druids (demesne/groves) and Serpents (Illusions from Subterfuge). And then Psioncs and Dreamweaving are like nothing from any of the games (unless there's something new I'm missing).

Just saying.

HI BARDS

Do you honestly think our bards are more than remotely similar to the other bards? Music is pretty much entirely unique (in execution, if not in effect), the closest thing to acrobatics is probably Pranks, and then Illusions and Tarot have never been Bard skillsets.

Bards in other IREs sing magic. Bards in Lusternia sing songs that have magical effects on the listeners. This is a pretty big difference.

(And bards were a lame choice for the 4th archetype, if you ask me )

I know, I mean that bards appear in the other games.

Also, Imperian bards play songs with magical effects.