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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Incenjucar" data-source="post: 9063677" data-attributes="member: 6182">Deflect Missiles (Defense against ranged attacks)Evasion (Defense against the most common AOEs)Stillness of Mind (Defense against charmed and frightened)Purity of Body (Immune to poison and disease)Slow Fall (Defense against being knocked off a cliff to your death)Diamond Soul (Defense against 4 more saves)Empty Body (Invisibility, Defense against damage)These allow monks to get at ranged attackers who are not sitting in an empty parking lot with a target painted on them.Whether these seven defense abilities are sufficient for how people want to play monks in 5E and how DMs are running things in 5E, I can't say, but they absolutely have a toolkit that is intended to be sufficient for specific playstyles established rather bluntly in their original showing per Snarf's thread on their history: <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/monk-the-past-present-and-questionable-future-of-an-iconic-class.698616/" target="_blank">https://www.enworld.org/threads/monk-the-past-present-and-questionable-future-of-an-iconic-class.698616/</a></blockquote>