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@mvincent: I'll have to crunch the numbers later, but I suspect those are not enough to make TWF an optimal option. I know that for fighters, they need more than just their weapon damage, strength damage, and enhancement bonuses. Monks should have it worse due to their lower attack bonus, as...

TWF is regarded as a suboptimal strategy if you don't have a source of damage that's not from strength. I think Flurry is pretty good, but saying that Flurry puts Monks on par with Fighters for dealing damage is incorrect. I crunched some numbers for E6, and after I gave the level 6 Fighter...

Then either you burn a feat to gain proficiency (Str Monk takes Improved Initiative), or you suffer a -4 penalty to the AoOs, either of which tips the battle in favor of the Str Monk. Let's stick to WotC for this discussion, OK? There's way too much 3rd party stuff out there for us to account...

Some problems: Why did you use a Greatspear? Monks aren't even proficient in that, and the higher damage favors the Dex Monk. We can just say they use Unarmed Strikes or something Monks are normally proficient with (I don't think they're proficient with a reach weapon...). Also, note the Str...

The fourth level spell Sheltered Vitality in the Spell Compendium makes you immune to ability drain. As an item though, it might be quite costly.

Druid 11. Take Natural Spell. P.S.: If you know about the official Character Optimization boards, I would highly recommend you do not make this post there. You will get flamed. If you want specific and worthwhile char op help, develop at the very least a character concept/role and some...

I disagree. Going longbow means you give up most of the advantages of being a monk (flurry, stunning fist, other bonus feats) while eating all the penalties (medium BAB, MAD so low str composite bows). Not to mention being an elf melee character already suffering from MAD and a low hit dice...

I'm pretty sure you have to go outside WotC 3.5 as well... IIRC? I think you have to burn a feat in order to flurry proficiently with any reach weapon (either to get proficiency or to get monk weapon status). A better plan would be either an MIC item that allows teleportation or some Martial...

I guess, although it's kind of hard to nova with Dervish Dance. Your choice.

Well, if you want an apples to apples comparison, you'd need to use a reach fighter for that. Swap out that fighter's weapon for a Spiked Chain, and he loses only 3.5 damage and would likely get as many AoOs as the monk. Not to mention he actually has the option of tripping (as in actually has...

Phantom Stags are better :).

In E6, they allow you to create an "Extra Dervish Dance" feat which is useful and can be taken an infinite number of times so your player doesn't end up running out of feats to take except for Toughness :P.

Dragonfire Adepts can't tank. Ask your DM to let you pick up the Draconic template in Races of the Dragon? Or, perhaps get Leadership at level 6 and have a dragon cohort?

Well, the one possible issue is with Prestige Classes that forces you to multiclass before entering if you want to enter ASAP thanks to a skill prereq. The way around this would be to keep the cross-class skill rank cap, but you can buy cross-class skill ranks at a 1:1 ratio. In other words...

This ability is poorly worded. What type of action is it to assume a Fortified Stance? What does it mean to be aware of an incoming attack 1 round in advance? How does the 25% less chance to suffer from crits work? Does it work like the Fortification ability? If so, and the critical hit is...

Oh come on, it has nothing on the Half-Red Dragon Half-Blue Dragon Half-Green Dragon Half-White Dragon Bat Swarm :p. Got sonic damage?

Thoughts: - The special requirements are lame. I'm going to have to put 9 skill points (and the fighter doesn't have many of those) into a lackluster skill and then take four bad feats, and then pray that I meet the DM lets me meet the special requirements fast enough so I'm not stuck with...

I was using a rule out of the Rules of the Game series. Skip sometimes sprinkles some new rules or rules clarifications in there, and I got used to using them after a couple of campaigns I played in used them. I don't know how much playtesting they've been subjected to though, and in any case...

Immediate actions, when used not during your turn, replaces your next turn's swift action. So he can do this (say he gets 10 on init): Inititiative 10: Temporal Acceleration (Swift action), Standard action, Move action Initiative 9: Anticipatory Strike (Immediate action), swift action replaced...

Bah, no Rules of the Game rules? :( I guess I'll have to revise my build a bit. Thanks for letting us know :). The worse thing is I'd have to edit my picture if I want it to depict the latest version, and I have no clue where I can find an image :(.