Monks usually use their fists. They get a ton of bonuses to unarmed strikes with little/no armour, and tend to be not very good if you give them any equipment past rings, amulets, and 0 AC items. By the by, version is .b81, right? And one other thing... Retech, are you playing a drow noble? Because I'm like 90% sure they get level adjustment +2, which means you'll be lagging behind massively in levels.