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<blockquote data-quote="Dandu" data-source="post: 5108608" data-attributes="member: 85158">Read carefully. No one uses it for more than 2 levels. That was the point I was trying to make, not that people do not use monks.If you went on the d20 Charop forums on WotC (from which a lot of the BG optimization crowd came from) they'd say the same thing.In the OP's case, 3 levels will give him +10 movement</blockquote>Enhancement bonus to movement. Boots of Striding and Springing would do the exact same thing. The boots are actually better, because they also give a +5 to jump in addition to the +4 boost from the speed bonus. And no, they do not stack with the monk's speed increase.No. You take a -2 penalty to flurry until level 5 where it becomes a -1 penalty. You do not lose the penalty until level 9.<a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/classes/monk.htm" target="_blank">Check the table for FoB and the description of the ability.</a>Only if you take at least 5 levels in monk. And then you're. taking more than 4. Also, FoB is a full round action, while TWF can be used on a standard action. This means that you can spring attack and make 2 attacks with TWF, but not with FoB. This makes level 4 FoB worse than TWF.If he's a striker, he wouldn't be a monk, rogue, or any combination of the two.If you want to forgo your chances of hitting anything. Levels in two 3/4th BAB classes along with a -4 attack penalty per attack does no favors for your attack bonus.While we're using that argument, he shouldn't take any levels in monk at all because we can make a custom &quot;Have him count as a monk of his rogue level for monk class features and everything&quot; feat.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE="Dandu, post: 5108608, member: 85158"] [B]Read carefully[/B]. No one uses it [B]for more than 2 levels[/B]. [B]That was the point I was trying to make[/B], not that people do not use monks. If you went on the d20 Charop forums on WotC (from which a lot of the BG optimization crowd came from) they'd say the same thing. In the OP's case, 3 levels will give him +10 movement [/quote]Enhancement bonus to movement. Boots of Striding and Springing would do the exact same thing. The boots are actually better, because they also give a +5 to jump in addition to the +4 boost from the speed bonus. And no, they do not stack with the monk's speed increase. No. You take a -2 penalty to flurry until level 5 where it becomes a -1 penalty. You do not lose the penalty until level 9. [URL="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/classes/monk.htm"]Check the table for FoB and the description of the ability.[/URL] Only if you take at least 5 levels in monk. And then you're. taking more than 4. Also, FoB is a full round action, while TWF can be used on a standard action. This means that you can spring attack and make 2 attacks with TWF, but not with FoB. This makes level 4 FoB worse than TWF. If he's a striker, he wouldn't be a monk, rogue, or any combination of the two. If you want to forgo your chances of hitting anything. Levels in two 3/4th BAB classes along with a -4 attack penalty per attack does no favors for your attack bonus. While we're using that argument, he shouldn't take any levels in monk at all because we can make a custom "Have him count as a monk of his rogue level for monk class features and everything" feat. [/QUOTE]

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