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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MerakSpielman" data-source="post: 2145528" data-attributes="member: 7464">It isn't based in European historical figures, as far as I can tell, though Europe had some fine styles of unarmed combat.But D&D is already a weird mish-mash. The original Cleric concept was loosely Christian, while the Druid is Celtic. Historically there is little justification for having both the Wizard and the Sorcerer class, and historical bards weren't considered to have magical powers. There's also a hugely innacurate portrayal of weapons. D&D has a random array of weapons from all eras and all regions, from China and Japan to Persia and England, and applicable to time periods from hundreds of years BC to the 1600s. So singling out the Monk as the sole deviation in D&D from historical Medieval Europe is kind of silly.</blockquote>