Tell me about your monk

[Macbeth]

I think the monk class is way to inflexible. With the monkish prestige classes in OA, it helps to alleviate that, though.

Still, for my money, I'd rather take the Midnight Defender class as a better monk than the monk itself.

Speaking of alternate monks, if you have access to it, the Arcana Unearthed Oathsworn is a nice monk-ish class. Should be easy to mix in with the PHB classes.