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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 3332657" data-attributes="member: 13966">.......except that has nothing to do with their background and flavor as-written.  Or the themes of their abilities.  Ergo the metagamey aspect I mentioned is what you're focusing on, which as noted, I agree with.  But from a thematic standpoint, their background puts them at odds with multiclassing.  A monk who mixes in some fighter levels isn't really pursuing monkish goals and enlightened self-perfection for greater understanding; he's pursuing martial and physical mastery and putting it ahead of self-actualization in importance.  It's no less viable a goal from a roleplaying standpoint, but it is not a monkish goal; it's a character concept that doesn't fit neatly into the fighter paradigm nor the monk paradigm, and is thus a hybrid that is not true to the monk class' background and roleplaying focus.  They are not really a monk then, but a fighter with monkish leanings (concerned more with physical development than monkish unity of the mind, body, and spirit).  Thus why the fighter-monk doesn't eventually achieve the monkish Perfect Self, uniting the separate aspects of themselves into a single enlightened whole.(durn my curiousity!  I just had to look at the thread again.  no more!)</blockquote>