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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spatula" data-source="post: 2355654" data-attributes="member: 2198">A gustal game?  What's that?I've been inspired down similar paths after watching too many hong kong martial arts movies, but there are a couple of hurdles to overcome.1st is the multiclass restriction on the monk class.  If your DM is willing to throw that out, great.  There's also a feat in the Eberron campaign book that allows monks to multiclass with another specific class, and I think I've seen similar feats elsewhere.  Of course, you could always just take your first level in fighter and advance exclusively in monk afterwards.2nd is that the monk's unarmed damage is tied to class level, and so if you plan on multiclassing you're going to be taking away from your damage potential if you fight unarmed.  You're also hurting your to hit penalties when using flurry of blows.On the plus side, you can use almost all weapons, which for the most part are superior to fighting unarmed.  And you'll have more feats.  If you're taking more than one level of fighter you may want to specialize in a weapon that you can flurry with (and if you're using Eberron, there are feats to make longswords and spears flurry weapons).  Or you may want to concentrate on reach weapons, using your unarmed attacks to remove the adjacent  'blind spots' that you get when fighting with most reach weapons.</blockquote>