OK< rather than convert one of my rogues to a monk, I grew one up from scratch, just to get a feel for the profession. A note that learning spells costs 38 MTPs; that's worse than a paladin. What is the expected level of spells for monks? 0.75x? Less? Also, I trained 2x in HP and put my mana stats fairly high. Yet, at level 1 I only have 5 mana. What's up with that?

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Perhaps the mana stat isn't what you think.

About 0.4x is assumed. If you are training spells significantly, you'll almost certainly want to frontload the training.

Oh buggery; could it be due to race? I picked a half-krolvin, for no good reason, and they get terrible wisdom and logic bonuses.

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