Cats are not pandas, no kung-fu.

A monk's fighting style strongly relies on a humanoid body's properties,
both for karate-like and judo-style variants.  The former relies on putting
the whole body's strength into blows (even for hand techniques, a good part
of power comes from legs and hips, unlike boxing where legs are used solely
for movement).  I don't know about the latter, but throws are even more
unfeline.

A cat fights by reaching out with its teeth or claws, similar to weapon
combat.  Thus, out of the three redundant backgrounds, Fi seems far more
thematic than Mo.

I've set FeFi's UC to 4, since they're supposed to be strongest among melee
backgrounds.  The full list of skills for those is:

Fi: Fi 3, UC 2, Dod 3.8
Gl: Fi 2, UC 5, Dod 2.6
Mo: Fi 3, UC 4, Dod 3.8, St 2.6
As: Fi 2, UC 2, Dod 1.8, St 3.8, Stab 3

Be: Fi 3, UC 3, Dod 5
CK: Fi 4, UC 2, Dod 3.8
DK: Fi 2, UC 2, Dod 2.6, Invo 2.6
Pr: Fi 2, UC 3, Dod 1.8, Invo 4.4
Cr: Fi 2, UC 2, Dod 2.6, Spc 2, Hex 3, Chrm 2.6
Wr: Fi 1, UC 3, Dod 3.8, Spc 2, Tloc 3.8
Tm: Fi 1, UC 3, Dod 2.6, Spc 2, Tmut 2.25
St: Fi 1, UC 1, Dod 2.6, St 2.6, Stab 3, Spc 1, Tmut 2.25

I did not alter the other of elliptic's contentious changes, removing As.
Using stealth can matter a lot for a species with great both aptitude and
racial bonuses, yet stalkers are probably enough.  This goes against our
rule of never disallowing backgrounds unless outright impossible, though.

All the other changes (the massive overhaul of recommendations) are fine
as they are informative rather than restrictive.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/crawl-ref/source/ng-restr.cc b/crawl-ref/source/ng-restr.cc
index bf4d3ef88d..bce96aeda2 100644
--- a/crawl-ref/source/ng-restr.cc
+++ b/crawl-ref/source/ng-restr.cc
@@ -19,8 +19,6 @@ char_choice_restriction job_allowed(species_type speci, job_type job)
         case JOB_FIGHTER:
             switch (speci)
         {
-            case SP_CAT:
-                return (CC_BANNED);
             case SP_DEEP_ELF:
             case SP_SLUDGE_ELF:
             case SP_MERFOLK:
@@ -62,6 +60,8 @@ char_choice_restriction job_allowed(species_type speci, job_type job)
         case JOB_MONK:
             switch (speci)
         {
+            case SP_CAT:
+                return (CC_BANNED);
             case SP_HIGH_ELF:
             case SP_DEEP_ELF:
             case SP_MOUNTAIN_DWARF: