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Message: <blockquote data-quote="airwalkrr" data-source="post: 5533346" data-attributes="member: 12460">With that in mind, some combination of fighter, rogue and/or monk seems the best option.And as far as the monk goes, you don't have to assume it has a far-eastern feel to it. There were plenty of medieval european practitioners of hand-to-hand martial arts and they were quite accomplished at it. They just haven't attained the popularity in modern history as the knights, who were simply pillars of defense and offense combined into a nice, neat, little steel-guarded package. You could also just feel free to translate some of the monk's more mystical abilities into practical and mundane pugilism. Abundant step could be a race across the battlefield at rapid speed. Sky's the limit as far as that's concerned. Of course monks need a lot in the way of ability scores and/or magic to be comparable challenges for PCs of their level or below. So if you run a low fantasy campaign that might be an issue. Without access to things like bracers or armor or at the very least potions of mage armor/shield of faith/etc. they will be pushovers.But you could build some effective NPCs based on sneak attack and Weapon Finesse alone, or perhaps using the scout to skirmish them. And that's if you want to keep things "simple." It depends a lot on how much magic your PCs (and by derivation your NPCs) have access to.</blockquote>