It's been so long since you met one that you have confused them with monks. While I agree that they make OK melee fighters, they cannot learn unarmed or dodge, and make a lot of damage with double daggers.

I had to look this up, we seems mostly to ageree about rangers: They can M bow and GM axe.

OK back to this tavern. I've just noticed that you were partly talking about MM9. I haven't installed that yet on my "new" computer, so I cannot check if they can indeed learn unarmed and dodge there. Anyway, I still think it should be might OR magic, any half-and-half characters should stay home.