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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 5364910" data-attributes="member: 35909">Dandu basically summed up my thoughts in his first post.  Why would I play a monk?  If swordsage and any other class that does the unarmed martial arts thing better isn't available, and I'm willing to be inferior to the other PCs just to pla a concept.  Monk as the concept has alway been one of my favorite classes in D&D, so it sucks to rag on the class.  But it's such a mess...Monk, like Fighter, is a great two level dip, though.  Unlike Fighter, who's good at very limited applications (killing stuff dead, basically), monk excels at nothing that you'd call an "important combat role," though.  Running really fast, surviving things, and fanning off monsters on a hot day with a flurry of misses aren't the kinds of specialized skills most parties go looking to recruit for.</blockquote>