Pistol and Rapier Wielding Kensei Monk

[Enkhidu]

Slightly off-topic, but what I love about the Kensai is that you can refluff it to meet a number of missing archetypes. I'm currently playing a Kensai Monk as a "swordsman". He started off with a wooden sword (a.k.a. a staff) which, he explained, he would use until he had "earned" the right to wield a real sword. He embellished this by re-telling the stories of how some of the others from his Academy had earned their swords.

He does fight by mixing in some knees to the groin, a few pommels to the face, and the occasional head-butt, but otherwise there's nothing about him that says "monk".

I did something similar, in a rather tongue in cheek fashion, with a Kensai built on the idea that the pc had found a fechtbuch and was following it.