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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mercule" data-source="post: 6922611" data-attributes="member: 5100">Weirdest for "ECL 0" races that have ever been published (to my knowledge) would probably be a myconid. Really, how awesome would "flurry of spores" be, as an attack? Since there's no 5E version, to my knowledge, that's a poor answer to your question, though.From a weirdly cool perspective, I think a water genasi would be great. The image of a water-based humanoid doing some of the fluid, soft style martial arts (I'm specifically thinking hapkido, which uses a "water principle" as a core tenet) is very compelling, IMO. Any genasi would work, depending on the style, but I like the water best. Second probably goes to a fire genasi shadow monk, just because the idea of of flame fading into darkness is interesting.A goliath would be bizarre, but actually makes sense. Their culture puts emphasis on wrestling and similar contest. A goliath monk would probably use something like judo or aikido.From a just plain, "I don't get it" angle, the gnome would be my pick. Unless you're in Eberron, then it makes total sense that the little KGB bastards would also be ninjas.As an aside, one of the first things that caught my eye, when I got the 5E PHB was a wood elf Open Hand Monk. I haven't gotten to play it, yet, because I mostly DM and the one game I joined already had a monk, but it seems like it would be very cool/fun.</blockquote>