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dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Dungeons & Dragons character class</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output 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3rd, v3.5, 4th, 5th</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Editions <small>(alternate class)</small></th><td class="infobox-data">Original, Basic, 2nd</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">First appearance</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Blackmoor_(supplement)" title="Blackmoor (supplement)">Supplement II – <i>Blackmoor</i></a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Source books</th><td class="infobox-data"> <ul><li><i>Blackmoor</i> (Original);</li> <li><i>Master Set</i> (Basic);</li> <li><i>Player's Handbook</i> (1st, 3rd, 5th);</li> <li><i>Faiths & Avatars</i> (2nd);</li> <li><i>Player's Handbook 3</i> (4th)</li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: lightgrey">Grouping</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">1E base class</th><td class="infobox-data"><i>none</i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">2E group</th><td class="infobox-data">Priest</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">4E powersource</th><td class="infobox-data">Psionic</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">4E role</th><td class="infobox-data">Striker</td></tr></tbody></table> <p>The <b>monk</b> (also <b>mystic</b>) is a playable <a href="/wiki/Character_class_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)" title="Character class (Dungeons & Dragons)">character class</a> in most editions of the <i><a href="/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons" title="Dungeons & Dragons">Dungeons & Dragons</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Fantasy" title="Fantasy">fantasy</a> <a href="/wiki/Role-playing_game" title="Role-playing game">role-playing game</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Dicing_with_Dragons_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dicing_with_Dragons-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A D&D monk is a fantasy <a href="/wiki/Martial_arts" title="Martial arts">martial artist</a>, specializing in unarmed combat. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publication_history">Publication history</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monk_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Publication history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Original_Dungeons_&_Dragons"><span id="Original_Dungeons_.26_Dragons"></span>Original <i>Dungeons & Dragons</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monk_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Original Dungeons & Dragons"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <i>Men & Magic</i> (1974) booklet from the <a href="/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_(1974)" title="Dungeons & Dragons (1974)">original <i>Dungeons & Dragons</i> set</a>,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template 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[...] The pinnacle of the monk's power was the quivering palm".<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 87–88">: 87–88 </span></sup> The monk as a character class was introduced in 1975's <i><a href="/wiki/Blackmoor_(supplement)" title="Blackmoor (supplement)">Blackmoor</a></i> supplement.<sup id="cite_ref-designers70s_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-designers70s-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 18">: 18 </span></sup> Shannon Appelcline, author of the <i>Designers & Dragons</i> series, wrote that "<a href="/wiki/Brian_Blume" title="Brian Blume">Brian Blume</a> is believed to have contributed to <i>Blackmoor</i>, primarily due to one statement by Gary Gygax. In his forward to <i><a href="/wiki/Oriental_Adventures" title="Oriental Adventures">Oriental Adventures</a></i> (1985), written ten years after the production of <i>Blackmoor</i>, Gygax claimed that the monk character class was 'inspired by Brian Blume and the book series called <i><a href="/wiki/The_Destroyer_(novel_series)" title="The Destroyer (novel series)">The Destroyer</a>'</i>. <a href="/wiki/Tim_Kask" title="Tim Kask">Tim Kask</a> offers a more nuanced origin, saying that the monk definitely originated with <a href="/wiki/Dave_Arneson" title="Dave Arneson">Dave Arneson</a>, but Brian Blume heard of it and may have adapted it on his own. Kask 'could not tell you how much of what [he] was given for the editing of <i>[Blackmoor]</i> about the Monk PC was Dave's or Brian's'."<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Advanced_Dungeons_&_Dragons_1st_edition"><span id="Advanced_Dungeons_.26_Dragons_1st_edition"></span><i>Advanced Dungeons & Dragons</i> 1st edition</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monk_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 1st edition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The monk was a main character class in the first edition <i><a href="/wiki/Players_Handbook" class="mw-redirect" title="Players Handbook">Players Handbook</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-WD10_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WD10-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-HW_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HW-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The monk was presented as one of the five core classes in the original <i>Players Handbook</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-ODaM_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ODaM-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 145">: 145 </span></sup> </p><p>In 1981, Philip Meyers argued that "the monk is the weakest of the character classes" in an article published in <i><a href="/wiki/Dragon_(magazine)" title="Dragon (magazine)">Dragon Magazine</a></i> #53 (later reprinted in <i>Best of Dragon</i>, Volume III). Meyers offered an extensive unofficial revision to the class, expanding and strengthening many of its game abilities (for example, increasing the monk's hit dice by 50%, raising the maximum level from 17 to 21, and adding class abilities as a "form of psionic power").<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1985, the next official revision of the monk appeared as a character class in the first edition <i>Oriental Adventures</i> rulebook, by <a href="/wiki/Gary_Gygax" title="Gary Gygax">Gary Gygax</a> and <a href="/wiki/David_Cook_(game_designer)" title="David Cook (game designer)">David Cook</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This version retained most of the class as presented in the first edition <i>Players Handbook</i>, but replaced the abstract hand-to-hand attacks with a more specific rules system to emulate different styles of martial arts (such as karate, judo, etc.).<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (June 2024)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> According to a reviewer for <i><a href="/wiki/White_Dwarf_(magazine)" title="White Dwarf (magazine)">White Dwarf</a></i>, this version of the monk was "altered to fit into an Eastern pattern", and was "at last in the proper context".<sup id="cite_ref-WD74_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WD74-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Basic_Dungeons_&_Dragons"><span id="Basic_Dungeons_.26_Dragons"></span>Basic <i>Dungeons & Dragons</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monk_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Basic Dungeons & Dragons"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The monk was available as a character class known as a "mystic" in the game's "Basic" edition, introduced in the <i><a href="/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_Master_Set" class="mw-redirect" title="Dungeons & Dragons Master Set">Dungeons & Dragons Master Set</a></i>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Advanced_Dungeons_&_Dragons_2nd_edition"><span id="Advanced_Dungeons_.26_Dragons_2nd_edition"></span><i>Advanced Dungeons & Dragons</i> 2nd edition</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monk_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The monk was dropped as one of the standard character classes available in the second edition.<sup id="cite_ref-HW_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HW-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-D&Dfaq_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-D&Dfaq-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_Complete_Priest%27s_Handbook" title="The Complete Priest's Handbook">The Complete Priest's Handbook</a></i> did, however, allow for clerics to take on some aspects of the monk class via the monk kit. This version of the monk retained clerical spellcasting and gained unarmed combat skills. </p><p>The monk was reintroduced as a second edition class of the priest group in <i><a href="/wiki/Faiths_%26_Avatars" title="Faiths & Avatars">Faiths & Avatars</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Player%27s_Option:_Spells_%26_Magic" title="Player's Option: Spells & Magic">Player's Option: Spells & Magic</a></i>. This version of the monk is a fully playable character class, but differs significantly from previous incarnations of the monk. This version of the monk gains priestly spells (though from different spheres of influence than the cleric) and retains skill with unarmed attacks and unarmored defenses, but no other abilities attributed to earlier versions of the monk. </p><p>With the release of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Complete_Psionics_Handbook" title="The Complete Psionics Handbook">The Complete Psionics Handbook</a></i>, many of the psionic or psionic-like abilities of the 1st edition monk became available in 2nd edition, though the 2nd edition monk was not given these abilities. </p><p>The monk was also reintroduced in <i><a href="/wiki/The_Scarlet_Brotherhood" title="The Scarlet Brotherhood">The Scarlet Brotherhood</a></i> for the <a href="/wiki/Greyhawk" title="Greyhawk">Greyhawk</a> setting, along with the <a href="/wiki/Assassin_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)" class="mw-redirect" title="Assassin (Dungeons & Dragons)">Assassin</a> class. This version is a direct update of the first edition class, and has no clerical powers. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dungeons_&_Dragons_3rd_edition"><span id="Dungeons_.26_Dragons_3rd_edition"></span><i>Dungeons & Dragons</i> 3rd edition</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monk_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>With the release of the third edition rules, the monk was reintroduced as a class.<sup id="cite_ref-D&Dfaq_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-D&Dfaq-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dungeons_&_Dragons_4th_edition"><span id="Dungeons_.26_Dragons_4th_edition"></span><i>Dungeons & Dragons</i> 4th edition</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monk_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Dungeons & Dragons 4th edition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A preview version of the class was published online in the 375th issue of <i><a href="/wiki/Dragon_(magazine)" title="Dragon (magazine)">Dragon</a></i>, released in May 2009. </p><p>As published in <i>Player's Handbook III</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the Monk uses the Psionic power source, but may use ki focuses (similar in use to implements used by spellcasting classes) to add enhancements to his unarmed attacks. The monk class now makes it possible for them to use weapons effectively, even allowing them to be used as implements for some powers. In the absence of proficiency with high-damage weapons, however, the monk is still primarily an unarmed class. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dungeons_&_Dragons_5th_edition"><span id="Dungeons_.26_Dragons_5th_edition"></span><i>Dungeons & Dragons</i> 5th edition</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monk_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The monk has been included as a character class in the 5th edition <i><a href="/wiki/Player%27s_Handbook" title="Player's Handbook">Player's Handbook</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It features three Monastic Traditions a Monk can choose from: the Way of the Open Hand, the Way of Shadow and the Way of the Four Elements. Several sourcebooks since the launch of 5th edition have expanded the number of Monastic Traditions. <i><a href="/wiki/Sword_Coast_Adventurer%27s_Guide" title="Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide">Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide</a> (2015)</i> introduced two new traditions: the Way of the Long Death and the Way of the Sun Soul. <i><a href="/wiki/Xanathar%27s_Guide_to_Everything" title="Xanathar's Guide to Everything">Xanathar's Guide to Everything</a></i> (2017) reprinted the Way of the Sun Soul and introduced two more traditions: The Way of the Drunken Master and the Way of the Kensei. <i><a href="/wiki/Tasha%27s_Cauldron_of_Everything" title="Tasha's Cauldron of Everything">Tasha's Cauldron of Everything</a></i> (2020) introduced two more traditions: Way of Mercy and Way of Astral Self.<sup id="cite_ref-:02_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:02-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Way of the Open Hand are the master of martial arts, allowing monks to manipulate ki in combat. Way of the Shadow monks are sneaky and stealthy, allowing monks to use ki to hide themselves. Way of the Four Elements monks are masters of harnessing the elements through ki. The expanded Monastic Tradition options list includes: the Way of the Long Death, allowing monks to use ki to manipulate life and death itself, the Way of the Sun Soul, which allows monks to channel their life energy into attacks, the Way of the Drunken Master, improving mobility, luck and speed in the heat of battle with the unpredictability of the drunkard, and the Way of the Kensei, which grants monks mastery over ki-empowered weapon usage. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monk_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the book <i>The Evolution of Fantasy Role-Playing Games</i> (2014), Michael Tresca wrote that while the original monk was a cleric path, the monk (as standardized in <i>Oriental Adventures</i>) "is one of the few classes that have no anchor in Western lore. Crusading knights encountered the assassins, but the monk is a particularly Eastern phenomenon. As a result, the monk's roots were sometimes conflated, such that one set of lead miniatures had <a href="/wiki/Franciscans" title="Franciscans">Franciscan</a>-style monks posed in martial arts stances".<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 87–88">: 87–88 </span></sup> Tresca also highlighted that the monk "was inspired by the fictional martial art <a href="/wiki/Sinanju_(martial_art)" title="Sinanju (martial art)">Sinanju</a> [...] [which] bestowed abilities upon its practitioners that bordered on the fantastic, including the ability to climb walls, dodge bullets, outrun a car, and the like".<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 87–88">: 87–88 </span></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Screen_Rant" title="Screen Rant">Screen Rant</a></i> rated the monk class as the 2nd to least powerful class of the base 12 character classes in the 5th edition.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>The Gamer</i> rated the 5th edition monk subclass Way Of The Sun Soul as the most awesome subclass out of the 32 new character options in <i>Xanathar’s Guide to Everything.</i><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Gus Wezerek, for <i><a href="/wiki/FiveThirtyEight" title="FiveThirtyEight">FiveThirtyEight</a>,</i> reported that of the 5th edition "class and race combinations per 100,000 characters that players created on D&D Beyond from" August 15 to September 15, 2017, monks were 9th in player creations at 7,892 total. Human (1,946) was the most common racial combination followed by <a href="/wiki/Elf_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)" title="Elf (Dungeons & Dragons)">elf</a> (1,349) and then <a href="/wiki/Aarakocra" class="mw-redirect" title="Aarakocra">aarakocra</a> (835).<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monk_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Skip_Williams" title="Skip Williams">Skip Williams</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Tweet" title="Jonathan Tweet">Jonathan Tweet</a>, <a href="/wiki/Monte_Cook" title="Monte Cook">Monte Cook</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Player%27s_Handbook" title="Player's Handbook">Player's Handbook</a></i> (<a href="/wiki/Wizards_of_the_Coast" title="Wizards of the Coast">Wizards of the Coast</a>, 2000)</li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eric_Cagle&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Eric Cagle (page does not exist)">Eric Cagle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jesse_Decker" title="Jesse Decker">Jesse Decker</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Jeff_Quick&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jeff Quick (page does not exist)">Jeff Quick</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Wyatt_(game_designer)" title="James Wyatt (game designer)">James Wyatt</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Arms_and_Equipment_Guide" title="Arms and Equipment Guide">Arms and Equipment Guide</a></i> (Wizards of the Coast, 2001)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Monk_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output 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<a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7100-9466-3" title="Special:BookSources/0-7100-9466-3"><bdi>0-7100-9466-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Dicing+with+Dragons%2C+An+Introduction+to+Role-Playing+Games&rft.edition=Revised&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=1982&rft.isbn=0-7100-9466-3&rft.aulast=Livingstone&rft.aufirst=Ian&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMonk+%28Dungeons+%26+Dragons%29" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-:0-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-:0_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-:0_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTresca2014" class="citation 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Greenwood">Ed Greenwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeff_Grubb" title="Jeff Grubb">Jeff Grubb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rob_Heinsoo" title="Rob Heinsoo">Rob Heinsoo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tracy_Hickman" title="Tracy Hickman">Tracy Hickman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Johnson_(game_designer)" title="Harold Johnson (game designer)">Harold Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_J._Kuntz" title="Robert J. Kuntz">Robert J. Kuntz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Mearls" title="Mike Mearls">Mike Mearls</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Mentzer" title="Frank Mentzer">Frank Mentzer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Moldvay" title="Tom Moldvay">Tom Moldvay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Perkins_(game_designer)" title="Chris Perkins (game designer)">Chris Perkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jon_Pickens" title="Jon Pickens">Jon Pickens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Tweet" title="Jonathan Tweet">Jonathan Tweet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_M._Ward" title="James M. Ward">Jim Ward</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Weis" title="Margaret Weis">Margaret Weis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skip_Williams" title="Skip Williams">Skip Williams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Winter" title="Steve Winter">Steve Winter</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Companies</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/TSR_(company)" class="mw-redirect" title="TSR (company)">TSR</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wizards_of_the_Coast" title="Wizards of the Coast">Wizards of the Coast</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grenadier_Models_Inc." title="Grenadier Models Inc.">Grenadier Models</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Judges_Guild" title="Judges Guild">Judges Guild</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paizo" title="Paizo">Paizo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ral_Partha_Enterprises" title="Ral Partha Enterprises">Ral Partha</a></li> <li><a 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style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Geography_and_cosmology" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Geography and cosmology</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_campaign_settings" title="Dungeons & Dragons campaign settings">Campaign settings</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Birthright_(campaign_setting)" title="Birthright (campaign setting)">Birthright</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Council_of_Wyrms" title="Council of Wyrms">Council of Wyrms</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Dark_Sun" title="Dark Sun">Dark Sun</a></i></li> <li><i><a 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title="Kingdoms of Kalamar">Kingdoms of Kalamar</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Magic:_The_Gathering" title="Magic: The Gathering">Magic: The Gathering</a></i> <a href="/wiki/Multiverse_(Magic:_The_Gathering)" title="Multiverse (Magic: The Gathering)">planes</a> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Guildmasters%27_Guide_to_Ravnica" title="Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica">Ravnica</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Strixhaven:_A_Curriculum_of_Chaos" title="Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos">Strixhaven</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Theros" class="mw-redirect" title="Theros">Theros</a></i></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mahasarpa" class="mw-redirect" title="Mahasarpa">Mahasarpa</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mystara" title="Mystara">Mystara</a></i> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Blackmoor_(campaign_setting)" title="Blackmoor (campaign setting)">Blackmoor</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Savage_Coast" class="mw-redirect" title="Savage Coast">Savage Coast</a></i></li> <li><i><a 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existence</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Material Plane <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Birthright_(campaign_setting)" title="Birthright (campaign setting)">Aebrynis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abeir-Toril" title="Abeir-Toril">Abeir-Toril</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Athas" class="mw-redirect" title="Athas">Athas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Krynn" class="mw-redirect" title="Krynn">Krynn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eberron" title="Eberron">Eberron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mystara" title="Mystara">Mystara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oerth" class="mw-redirect" title="Oerth">Oerth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Underdark" title="Underdark">Underdark</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inner_Plane" class="mw-redirect" title="Inner Plane">Inner Planes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Outer_Plane" title="Outer Plane">Outer Planes</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sigil_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)" title="Sigil 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monsters</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Dungeons_%26_Dragons_deities" title="List of Dungeons & Dragons deities">Deities and powers</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bahamut_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)" title="Bahamut (Dungeons & Dragons)">Bahamut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corellon_Larethian" title="Corellon Larethian">Corellon Larethian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eilistraee" title="Eilistraee">Eilistraee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Greyhawk_deities" title="List of Greyhawk deities"><i>Greyhawk</i> deities</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tharizdun" title="Tharizdun">Tharizdun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vecna" title="Vecna">Vecna</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moradin" title="Moradin">Moradin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mystra_(Forgotten_Realms)" title="Mystra (Forgotten Realms)">Mystra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiamat_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)" title="Tiamat (Dungeons & Dragons)">Tiamat</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><div id="Publications" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em">Publications</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_Dungeons_%26_Dragons_rulebooks" title="List of Dungeons & Dragons rulebooks">Core rulebooks</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group 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