He replied "no im the chip monk."

It’s a bunch of Monk E-Business.

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My brother needs a turkey friar ASAP for our Thanksgiving. Apparently the one he was going to use had burned up. Poor guy!

I him asked if it was self immolation, but he didn't know what the heck I was talking about.

When he gets inside he sees a man slicing down potatoes and putting them in hot oil. The traveler approaches him and says "You must be the Friar."

"Actually" says the man, "I'm the Chip Monk"

I played all the FE entries on GBA and really enjoyed them. Three Houses is my first game since then. It’s been 3 hours and I’ve only had one battle. I don’t understand why they added this whole Monastery part with quests and tasks, to me it seems so redundant.

I wonder if this part is going to be any more interesting along the game or I just have to get used to it?

Thanks

Edit: Forget about "Inconsistent" in the title, let's go with "Very RNG dependent" instead

I've been grinding orcs for quite a while, good spot with average of 500m~ per hour when lucky, unlucky is about 420-450m (if no weapon drops at all).I then wanted to try that giga good spot people are crazy about "Bloody Monastery" so I went to the road rotation. First hour was fantastic, I got 8 bells, 3 weapons and a nail. Easily 600m per hour I said. Sadly, 2nd hour was a horrible ordeal. 0 Weapons, 0 bells, 0 Nails. I barely got 230m in that hour.From what I can tell (please tell me I'm wrong) BM is just horribly inconsistent because you have to factor in lots of RNG (Bells, weapons, nails and seeds) to make profit out of it. While orcs is just Seeds and Weapons (can even make much more money with less weapons than BM).

Seriously. Look them up. They're like swiss army knives of worldbuilding. Based on their historical functions, here's a few of the fun things you can do with them.

Replace "Inns"

Obviously there's nothing wrong with the using typical fantasy inn, but the all-in-one eatery and rooms (essentially a modern hotel), wasn't really a thing in the Medieval Europe that D&D is loosely based on. Once again, I cannot emphasize enough how perfectly OK it is to not be historically accurate in your game of make believe. If, however, you are bored with the standard Flagon & Thistle inn and suites, monasteries are a historically precedented alternative. Most Christian monasteries provided room and board as a matter of course (other religions are available).

If you want to learn a ton about actual medieval hospitality, check this video out: https://youtu.be/7Xc8EBenUbwIn fact you'll probably find the video more useful than this post. (Consider checking out the channel, if you haven't. He's a ttrpg and medieval history enthusiast).

Now, it's fair to note that inn/taverns are more public than monasteries, so the social aspect of meeting a cross section of every kind of person in the local area might get lost, though not necessarily. That said, you don't necessarily have to show both sides of a central tension to show it's there. Maybe one of your party isn't admitted to the monastery because something about them triggers prejudices held by the order that runs the monastery. Maybe there are monasteries for two competing orders across from each other, like a CVS and a Walgreens.

Alternatively, monasteries often supported themselves by running some kind of business. A lot of them did wine (a lot of them did wine). You could just do a monastery that runs an inn/tavern (and sells its special brand of booze or cheese). Then at least your inn has some additional context and flavor. For that matter, you can flavor the monastery (and their accompanying religion), by what business they run. Consider the implications of monastery that runs a casino, for example.

Records and Hidden Lore

Monasteries were for contemplation and study, among other things, and monasteries tended not only to have libraries, but to keep their own meticulous records. In fact, before birth, death, and marriage records were managed by the state, they were kept by churches. So if you've got lore that your party needs to find that isn't common knowledge, don't put