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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Synicism" data-source="post: 1149661" data-attributes="member: 489">My monk character is a 2nd level Anthropomorphic Tiger monk (total ECL 5) from Savage Species. I think he is poised to become the party's premier melee combatant, notwithstanding the fact that we have a 5th level half-orc paladin with a 20 strength. We're all 5th level characters built on a 32 point buy.His AC is higher than the magic-full-plate wearing half-orc paladin, he (ab)uses the fact that monks can make unarmed attacks even when holding weapons to tote around a spiked chain (Anthro Tigers get Power Attack as a racial feat and he has Combat Reflexes) so he's got a zillion Attacks of Opportunity because of his reach and unreasonably high Dexterity, he's got great stealth and sensory skills, and in a few levels' time, he's going to get Improved Disarm or Improved Sunder (I'm using an option from Dragon Magazine's Variant Fist article) and will be even more nasty.Sure those enemy fighters are nasty with their weapons and stuff, but fighters can't Tumble and picking an object off the ground draws attacks of opportunity. And come to think of it, so does making an unarmed attack against a monk. And his BAB is only two points lower than the Paladin's.The fact that he can jump down off a 30' wall and take no damage, without even having slow fall, is fun too. Very Jackie Chan/Jet Li. With fur.</blockquote>