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Message: <blockquote data-quote="StreamOfTheSky" data-source="post: 5382813" data-attributes="member: 35909">Not really sure why you need those paladin abilities, and "ki abilities" is a little vague....Consider doing Monk 1 / Cleric / Crusader 1 / Ruby Knight Vindicator 10, with a level of Contemplative thrown in somewhere.  If not in 3.5, the 3.0 Contemplative gave access to a domain with the basic equivalent of divine grace.  Again, you're creating some pretty crazy multiple ability dependency with all the things you want...  The cleric casting gives BETTER healing than lay on hands, and if you really, truly need lay on hands type ability, at level 7 a cleric can get the "pool of healing" variant from C.Champion.  Trade permanently a level 4 spell slot per day to get a lay on hands-adjacent ability to heal (caster level +1) x5 per day.  Since it's based on obtaining spell level 4 and not any solid cleric class feature, you could probably convince the DM to let you get it even though you'll never hit cleric 7.Tome of Battle classes like Crusader gives strike maneuvers to do good damage with pretty much any weapon.  Crusader just happens to have a prestige class that advances cleric casting along with maneuvers, so I chose that one.  Crusader's also similar in theme to paladin.  The Superior Unarmed Strike feat in that book will help keep your unarmed damage up.</blockquote>