Best Monk Races?

[diaglo]

PKitty statted up a Grell monk back a few years ago on Dragonsfoot

 

[Funkthis]

I know it has been mentioned but I ran a half-dragon monk and he was pretty effective. Str + 8 is nice as well as the other stat bonuses along with the +4 natural armor and some nice immunities (paralysis came up big). Additionally the elemental immunity (mine was fire) worked really well: Run into the room and grapple the spellcaster/rogue type....wizard casts fireball...poof crispy bad guy. Even the breath weapon came in handy with dealing with a large number of opponents. LA + 3 however is pretty hefty and I always wondered how well I would have been doing if I was three lvls higher.

 

[Umbran]

Thats not RAW, but it'd make a fine house rule.

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[werk]

I think maybe a large fire elemental would be a good monk.

 

[javcs]

I think maybe a large fire elemental would be a good monk.

That would hurt. Alot.

For a speed based, stealthy scout type monk, mustevals would be pretty good, but you aren't going to be putting boatloads of damage on somebody, except at extreme range (magic missile at will) and that will take a while. Only problem is that they are 2HD outsiders with a rather massive +5 LA, personally I wouldn't put them at that high an LA, but it can be mitigated somewhat through the LA buyback rules from UA.

 

[geosapient]

Guys, there're probably rules for that somewhere in BoEF (Book of Erotic Fantasy) or whatever it is.

I don't believe there rules for 'monkey grabs the peach' in the BoEF. They do have some nice armor in there though (not that a monk would wear it).

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I think maybe a large fire elemental would be a good monk.

I bet Bruce Lee would beg to differ:

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. If you put water in a cup it becomes the cup, if you put into a bottle it becomes the bottle. You put water into a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be like water, my friend.

Bruce Lee - A Warrior's Journey

IOW, a large WATER elemental!

 

[Presto2112]

IMC I have some small pockets of hobgoblins who have erected monasteries in the past century. Hobgoblins, flavorwise, seem to fit the bill for the monk class very well.

 

[werk]

Statting up half-ogre monk now...yummy.

 

[infernuspetrefax]

half ogre or githzerai is good for +2LA

my personal favorite LA +0 that hasnt been even mentioned is changeling from the MMIII p24. you dont get any material bonuses beyond like +2 to bluff and against mind effecting stuff but just think of the possibility as an assassin... you can easily infiltrate any humanoid-shaped biped society, you could pose as an ambassador or a member of the royal family or just a servant and get lost in a crowd. the object being of course to get close to your mark so that they will trust you in a situation where your alone and unarmed and then......
after you punch him in the throat and hide the body you can become your recent victim and influence city politics or the guards or whatever depending on who you killed.

which is all a LOT more than you can do as a human, dwarf, elf, etc