Monks, Tattooed Monks, and Epic levels
Camarath
Pale Master Tarrasque
You could become an Epic Tattooed Monk. And I think that the Monk and Tattooed Monk level would still stack for unarmed damage, AC bonus and unarmored speed bonus. For example I think a 10 Monk/15 Tattooed Monk would have the unarmed damage, AC bonus and unarmored speed bonus of a level 25 Monk.
James McMurray
First Post
No. His levels only stack with monk levels for the purposes of determining his unarmed damage, AC bonus, and unarmored speed bonus. They don't stack for the purposes of becoming an epic monk. The only way to become an epic anything is to have 20 levels in the class, and then gain one more. (or whatever the max levels are for that class in the case of PrCs).
Lord_Fergus
First Post
Except he would have 10 levels in a PrC which would qualify him at 21st level to become an Epic Tattoed Monk. Only the base classes require 20 full levels to be considered epic in them. For PrCs the requirement is 10 levels + 10 levels of PrC to enable Epic PrC the next level.
James McMurray
First Post
If you gain levels as an epic tattooed monk, those levels will stack with your non epic monk levels for the purposes of unarmed damage, AC bonus, and unarmored speed bonuses. However, you are still not an epic monk, you're an epic tattooed monk. You gain whatever epic class progression the tattooed monk has, not the monk.
James McMurray
First Post
If that reply is to me, thanks for reiterating my point.
There may be times when you need more than 10 levels of a class to qualify for taking it to its epic progression, and you could have less than 10 other class levels. I can only think of one class this would fit offhand, its one of the dragon classes from the Draconomicon, and so would require 12 level before going epic.
James McMurray
First Post
Nope. A PrC must have at least 10 levels to qualify for an epic progression.
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