D&D 3E/3.5 Shou disciple and 3.5 flurry

[jasin]

Unapproachable East is pretty much 3.5 compatible.

However, there's a prestige class in there, Shou disciple, which
includes the following sidebar:

"A Shou disciple with monk levels adds his monk base attack bonus and
his Shou disciple base attack bonus and uses the unarmed attack
progression of a monk with the same attack bonus. [...] The character
does not use his base attack bonus from any other class levels in this
determination, unless the class allows unarmed attacks like the monk's.
[...]"

Would it be fair for 3.5 purposes to treat this as saying that Shou
disciple levels stack with monk levels for determining the penalties and
the number of attacks when using the 3.5 monk's flurry?

Shou d. being a fighter-BAB class, that would mean that a Mnk5/Sho4
would have BAB +7/+2 but could flurry at +7/+7/+2, because a 9th-level
monk makes one additional attack when flurrying with no penalty.
Further, a Mnk6/Sho5 would have BAB +9/+4, but could attack at +9/+9/+9/
+4, because an 11th-level monk makes two extra attacks (no penalty).

Does that seem right?

 

[Oscar carramiñana]

Yes you are right,a Mnk5/SD4 uses the unarmed strikes as a Mnk9. The Shou Disciple is a good prestige class

 

[zendruid]

What happens when I add Asetic Hunter, do all my ranger/monk/SD stack? I ask this because Asetic Hunter causes your ranger and monk levels to stack, and since the prestige class says all classes that grant monk unarmed damage stack, does this work?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I don't know of any ruling contrary to that.

In addition, you might want to check out the 3.5 update of OA in Dragon #318 (by original OA designer James Wyatt), which, among other things, upgrades the Shaman's Unarmed Strikes to nearly the equivalent of the Monk's. The Monk is still the only one with the natural/manufactured bonus, but the Shaman does get increasing damage as per the Monk.

For other Monk goodness, see my sig.