Are there bare handed combat classes you can visit multiple times?

[a-d]

Are there any martial artist classes that don't say if you take a level in another class you can no longer progress in this one?

I'm planning on being a Factotum/Artificer and was looking for something that would give an edge for when I've been disarmed and placed in a cell, but broken out and am trying to get to safety.

You know, like the ability to fight effectively bare handed.
Monk looked good but it seems to say if you go elsewhere you can't come back.
That doesn't seem worth it.

Do you know of any other options?

 

[Dandu]

Psychic Warrior, Swordsage, Totemist, Binder

 

[xigbar]

Even the Fighter can be built to do unarmed combat.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

It depends upon which sourcebooks are allowed: Monks in Oriental Adventures have no multiclassing restrictions of that kind; the Shaman from the same book has IUC as a class feature, and after the update in Dragon #318, has it's unarmed strikes scale with level (no "treated as manufactured & natural weapons language, but they ARE full divine casters). Some of the other variants on the class allow unfettered multiclassing with specific classes. And outside of WotC publications, there are all kinds of options.

Check my sig for more detailed info.

 

[Axel]

Just take Improved Unarmed Strike?

 

[Duke Arioch]

Fist of the Forest PrC...

 

[Dandu]

Just take Improved Unarmed Strike?

Psychic Warrior with Improved Unarmed Strike, Superior Unarmed Strike, Improved Natural Attack, and Snap Kick makes a great monk substitute.