Give me some build idea for Scarlet Brotherhood villains

[Shin Okada]

My current campaign will involve some encounter with Scarlet Brotherhood agents, though the Brotherhood is not the main opponent of the campaign.

Anyway, I want to let appear 2-3 distinctive Scarlet Brotherhood monk NPCs. The problem is, monk class is rather weak. I guess single class monk will be no match for med-to-highly optimized PCs.

So, I am trying to use some feats, prestige classes, items and such for making some monk-based effective opponents.

One would be an Enlightened Fist with Ascetic Mage feat. With Wraithstrike spell, Arcane Strike and class abilities from EF, she can be a worthy opponent.

But I cannot think of builds for others. Would you please give me some ideas for making strong monk-based combatants? The level of the villains would be 12-14.

 

[Voadam]

The Scarlet Brotherhood has other type of agents as well, assassins and thief spies are classics, and the 2e sourcebook includes suel mages and monster trainers.

For straight monks I don't remember anything too cool prestige class-wise from Complete Warrior, Oriental Adventures, Rokugan Sword and Fist, or Quintessential Monk. I vaguely remember going for tattoo monk with one PC but wanted to complete 8 levels of normal monk first to not lose out on BAB.

My normal house rule fix for monks is to just give them 1/1 BAB.

If you have one spell monk you could also go with a super defense tank build monk (tons of wisdom and dodge feats and fighting defensively stuff and protective items) and a nimble maneuverable mage killer one to have three bases covered for D&D monk archetypes. Super grappler is not going to do well against a typical party unless he grabs somebody and jumps over the side of a cliff to separate the target from everybody else.

 

[ksbsnowowl]

Invisible Fist alternate class feature from Exemplars of Evil.

Here is where I built some Poison Dusk Lizardfolk Rogue/Monks using it:
http://www.minmaxboards.com/index.php?topic=14011.msg251017#msg251017

Throw on Ascetic Rogue and make them more Rogue than Monk. It should be very ninja-esque.

 

[Dandu]

Dark moon invisible fist tatooed monk