Monk, flurry and PrCs

[Noldor Elf]

If you combine Monk with Prestige Class that advances Monk abilities, which abilities are increased? Armor bonus? Unarmed Damage? Flurry of Blows?

There is nothing mentioned about Flurry, but in 3.0 ed it worked because of the (horrible) Unarmed BAB, so it would be realistic to assume that as that was replaced by better flurry, those Monk PrCs that earlier increased UBAB would now increase Flurry.

How about Asthetic (sp?) feats from Complete Adventurer? If they let you to count levels of multiple classes towards the unarmed damage of the Monk, would you allow that count also purposes of the Flurry?

 

[Darkness]

Usually it's AC bonus and unarmed damage. Sometimes unarmored speed is increased too.

A few types of Animal Shen also increase flurry a little. I'm not sure if there are other prestige classes that do that as well.

Ascetic Hunter, Knight and Rogue only increase unarmed damage.
Ascetic Mage increases only AC bonus.

 

[Kae'Yoss]

What's an Animal Shen?

 

[Darkness]

It's in some 3.5 issue of Dragon. Pretty cool class (well, about 6 slightly different classes, that is).

 

[UltimaGabe]

Simple: Look at the class. If the class states that Flurry of Blows is increased, then Flurry of Blows is increased. If it doesn't, it doesn't. No prestige class, to my knowledge, simply says, "This class stacks with monk levels for monk abilities." Every single class that advances monk abilities states what abilities are increased- such as "This class stacks with monk levels for purposes of determining unarmed damage, unarmored speed, and the monk's unarmored AC bonus".

 

[Insight]

Unlike the spellcasting PrCs, which actually state "+1 level of spellcasting class" and by that they mean +1 level's worth of spells, the non-spellcaster PrCs actually state exactly what is stacked, as far as I know. I've not seen every single PrC out there (who has?), but at least that's the way the 'official' PrCs work.