There’s a lot of folklore in the D&D players’ community about the creation of th
There’s a lot of folklore in the D&D players’ community about the creation of the Monk class, since it seems so out of place in the D&D game. The Monk and Assassin classes came from the same place: Brian Blume’s Blackmoor pamphlet/supplement (and from there, because it was in Dave Arneson’s campaign in Minnesota). In the intro to Oriental Adventures, Gary Gygax gives a far more fascinating explanation of where the Monk came from: Brian Blume was obsessed with the book series, Remo Williams the Destroyer. -- source link