Evil Gestalt Monk

[Empath Negative]

Come on... how cool would it be to be a Monk Warlock?

 

[Moridae]

But seriously, consider some of the more interesting feats in PHBII for example. Slashing Fury. if you can find a way to make your monk do slashing damage... you get a bonus attack in a standard action and a bonus attack for a full round action.

Warlock. That's right. Warlock. Because you're Lawful Evil you can be a Warlock/Monk. Your DC will be pitiful but you don't really require a high DC for a lot of invocations.

Versatile Unarmed Strike, PHBII. Allows a monk to choose bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing. As for warlock, was considering for the reason of, if nothing else, Hideous Blow plus unarmed strike would be killer.

As much as I enjoy Druid Monk... Monk | Psion is an awesome combo as well. Especially with VoP. This pretty much requires you to take Kung Fu Genius or another of those "use Int instead of Wis for monk-stuff" and trying to convince your DM that this should apply to your Shiba Protector dip (which takes longer to get into without a good BAB). This guy would be all about using his "ki" to augment his martial abilities. At later levels could do such legendary martial arts feats such as Running up Bamboo stalks and leaping off into the air for crazy long jumps (ahem, Fly) and firing blasts of focused ki in a wide variety of ways (Energy line)... or perhaps learning to take a hit so well that a swung great-axe does not so much as mar his skin (Vigor + Share Pain with psi-crystal affinity)... etc.

Very viable option. DM did say anything in any book is acceptable, and their is at least one PrC that I can think of that would allow a psion/monk mc to channel his powers into his unarmed strikes. Mixed with something like tattooed monk, I could see this concept going very far.

 

[emoplato]

Versatile Unarmed Strike, PHBII. Allows a monk to choose bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing. As for warlock, was considering for the reason of, if nothing else, Hideous Blow plus unarmed strike would be killer.

As for effectiveness you can better use eldritch glaive and decisive strike variant from the PHBII. This would give you the foundations to make a vicious lockdown build, but it might not fit what you want to do.
The Dark Moon Disciple is from the Champions of Valor web enhancement.

 

[Moridae]

As for effectiveness you can better use eldritch glaive and decisive strike variant from the PHBII. This would give you the foundations to make a vicious lockdown build, but it might not fit what you want to do.
The Dark Moon Disciple is from the Champions of Valor web enhancement.

So, I'm looking for Eldritch Glaive, and can't find it in PHBII, ComArc, or ComMag. I checked feats, and variants, as well as warlock invocations in ComArc. Which book is that in?

*Goes off to read Champions of Valor*

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

It's in Dragon Magic.

Is it too late to back out of the VoP thing? It's a really bad deal unless your DM is way below expected wealth per level amounts. And he allowed it despite being evil...what are you doing about all those bonus exalted feats that aren't very useful to an evil dude?

I suggest this instead: Vow of Waste (I made it up). Basically, you take the vow to piss away all your wealth on booze, drugs, and whores, or to donate to the cause of an evil tyrant or some other wasteful or vile purpose that ultimately provides you no benefit.

Selecting this does not cost you any feats at all, nor do you gain any bonus feats from it. Otherwise same restrictions and bonuses as VoP, with good/evil, sacred/profane etc.. switches to bonus types, DR, and so forth. The mechanical benefits of VoP are already inferior to what wealth could have gotten you anyway, I see no reason to also make it cost feats.

As for a 2nd class, I concure with Druid, it's a great combo with monk. And nothing else is, really...

 

[RUMBLETiGER]

Are you familiar with the Monk/Psychic Warrior or Monk/Ardent Tashalatora feat build? Tashalatora is from Secrets of Sarlona. You can progress your Unarmed attack damage, AC bonus and Flurry of blows while leveling up a psionic class. In fact, if you're doing a Gestalt, I'd even suggest Monk/Psion be one side, while a full BAB on the other. Take the Kung Fu Genius feat (Dragon Magazine #319) which [MENTION=23396]Drowbane[/MENTION]http://www.enworld.org/forum/members/drowbane.html suggested to make all the Monk abilities normally based off Wisdom to be based off Intelligence instead, bask in the glory of your Power Points, and Whomp on your enemies with your Fighter or Ranger or heck, Duskblade side, so you cast a spell when you punch somebody in the face. With your mind.

Eldritch Glaive is in Dragon Magic. It's incredible. Warlock's are nifty. (EDIT: Ninja'd by @StreamOfTheSky .)



Don't download books, that's illegal.
It's not a good idea to talk about doing illegal things.

 

[StreamOfTheSky]

Rumble, the monk variant he's interested in is in a downloadable addition to the book. Downloading it from wizards's site is the only way to actually get said rules.

 

[Moridae]

It's in Dragon Magic.

Is it too late to back out of the VoP thing? It's a really bad deal unless your DM is way below expected wealth per level amounts. And he allowed it despite being evil...what are you doing about all those bonus exalted feats that aren't very useful to an evil dude?

Well, we discussed the potential problems of it, but the concept of the character is to help the people by assassination and disposal of people in power. The concept of righteousness and fixing corruption gone very wrong.

To make up for the bonus exalted feats, we agreed on bonus monk-related feats. Each of the Exalted and Holy things are converted to their evil counterpart. As for the wealth bonus, well, wealth is useful, but the abilities of VoP mesh rather well with a monk, particularly if I do decide monk/druid.

 

[RUMBLETiGER]

Rumble, the monk variant he's interested in is in a downloadable addition to the book. Downloading it from wizards's site is the only way to actually get said rules.

OH... Legit downloads are good. Do that. Enjoy!

 

[Herobizkit]

TL;DR

I would also consider Psychic Warrior. Then you might be able to get yourself into something like Thrallherd.

If your DM is crazy, he may let you take this alongside the Leadership feat for double the possible amount of NPC followers.