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[Dingo333]

So, this may seem a newbie question but, could my drunken master monk also study the hungry ghost style?

Basically, I am asking if I could "multiclass" by taking 5 levels of drunken master monk and 5 levels of hungry ghost monk on my 10th level character

Is it unreasonable to assume that the monk wishes to master many styles? (a sorta master martial artist who knows every style) How about the wizard who wants to learn multiple schools? (I don't see the grand magi only knowing 1 school of magic) What of a sorcerer, she has discovered her dragon blood, but what about the fey influences in her family history? (Her grandma was abducted as a baby by fey, while her great great grandfather on her other side was a dragon)

I would probally impose a rule, you couldn't take any other classes (except maybe some PrC) if you wanted to go multiple of your choosen class, but are there any real rules about this?

 

[GlassEye]

So, this may seem a newbie question but, could my drunken master monk also study the hungry ghost style?

Basically, I am asking if I could "multiclass" by taking 5 levels of drunken master monk and 5 levels of hungry ghost monk on my 10th level character <snip>

No. Alternate class features from archetypes replace certain class features. That alternate class feature does not count as the feature that it replaced. So, in your example, you start as a drunken master monk. The fifth level drunken master power replaces purity of body. The fifth level power of the hungry ghost monk also replaces purity of body. Since you have drunken strength instead of purity of body you cannot replace purity of body with the hungry ghost power.

A character can take multiple archetypes as long as the new class features don't alter or replace the same class feature.

 

[Glade Riven]

Think of it as a safeguard against some blatent and egregious power building.

 

[Shisumo]

In addition, the rules to specify that the archetypes are not different classes, so you cannot multiclass between them any more than you can multiclass between, say, a cleric of Desna and a cleric of Cayden Cailean. So that's out too.