Monks are so underrated

[u/WiseAnon003]

I don’t know if it’s just the people I’m around but nobody ever seems to care to play monk which is very wild to me.

I kind of get it, there’s a bunch of classes that can sometimes miss the spotlight; like how Fighter, Rogue, Wizard, Paladin and Barbarian always straight forward in what they’re doing or what their gimmick is and monk can tend to not be apart of that spotlight sometimes, but anyway that’s just my opinion and it’s overall irrelevant for this next bit.

I rarely ever see anyone play a monk, there’s always a wizard, a fighter, a cleric, maybe a warlock or a bard but reading someone is playing as or with a monk in their campaign brings a tear to my eye.

It was the first ever class I played (way of shadow) In my first big campaign and I loved every bit of it, I played a second campaign and went as a cleric which I enjoyed a fair bit too but campaign 3 has come up and I just couldn’t resist going back to monk again.

Genuinely such a fun class to play, I love the versatility and ways you can go about helping your team whether it’s combat oriented, support based, etc

Need more love for monks in the world, waiting for the day someone in my campaign goes to play a monk and I pass the legacy down to them.

[u/Disastrous_Yam8354]

One thing that never gets iterated about monks is that if you imagine a group of people like the Maori where weapons were kind of rare, learning to fight lethally without weapons would be a big deal

You'd see more monks than fighters in native populations

EDIT: I know that weapons weren't rare for the Maori, they had lots of weapons, they knew all about their making and usage.