the ability to climb walls, dodge bullets, outrun a car, and the like".Screen Rant rated the monk class as the 2nd to least powerful class of the base 12 character classes in the 5th edition.The Gamer rated the 5th edition monk subclass Way Of The Sun Soul as the most awesome subclass out of the 32 new character options in Xanathar’s Guide to Everything.Gus Wezerek, for FiveThirtyEight, 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 elf (1,349) and then aarakocra (835). Further reading Skip Williams, Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook. Player's Handbook (Wizards of the Coast, 2000) Eric Cagle, Jesse Decker, Jeff Quick, James Wyatt. Arms and Equipment Guide'' (Wizards of the Coast, 2001) References External links D&D Wiki has all the SRD Classes, along with the Monk Dungeons & Dragons character classes