[Dungeon Fantasy] Non-East Asian inspirations for Martial Artists (and Ninja)

[RyanW]

There is one YouTuber who took a close look at the monk class in D&D 5e and realized that almost none of their abilities actually require them to act like Shaolin monks (look up full plate monk). The few "while wearing no armor and fighting unarmed or using a monk weapon" abilities are mostly focused on making monk weapons more useful, which he got around by just using an effective weapon that didn't need the mystic power up.