I admit I'm intrigued by the monk, too. I've only skimmed the playtest article, but it looked okay to me. Those of you who follow CharOp more than I do, is there anything in particular that I should be watching out for in the monk playtest? Besides, a monk would be ridiculously easy to insert into the campaign, in ways that other classes might not.
Gonna wait a day or two and see if any of the guys from first round of recruiting shows up, but it might be worth your time to work that monk up to L21.