Benedictine
by Charis

Class: Any
Tag: BEN

Introduction

A quiet but not meek order of monks, the Benedictines live simply to maintain their focus and detachment from the temptations of the world. Although they would rather remain in their cloisters, the great evil that is Diablo has required their participation in the Sin War.

The Benedictine may be considered more a role than a variant, and may be dual-classed with any other variant.

Rules

The Benedictine may focus on might or magic in his fight. They have two distinguishing features:

i) They disdain jewelry, and will wear at most a single jeweled item (amulet or ring) instead of three.

ii) They consider their backpack to be a small sack. The last four columns may never be used to carry items between games, although they may be used during a game to carry things to and from town.

Together these simple disciplines help maintain purity and focus.

Items

Restrictions are few. They should use no crowns, cruel items (ruthless, savage, merciless), vain items (awesome, grand, fine), or prideful items (king's, master's, champion's, lord's).

Shrines

They are particular about the use of shrines, praying at those only with non random effects that will increase their knowledge or stats, or repair/ strengthen items. For respect to the shrines in keeping with their vow of poverty, many Benedictines will leave gold at any shrine they use, as follows...

Enchanted: 10,000 gold
Eerie/Abandoned/Quiet/Creepy: 2,500 gold
Hidden/Religious: 2,000 gold
Eldritch: 500 gold
Divine: 0
Other: 100 gold.