Useless Character combo?

[Angerland]

We were wrapping up this last week and talking about "what we would play next" when we start a new campaign here in the future. The thought came to me of a Druid/Monk combo. Is this totally insane and would never work or is this a feasable combination? The books I have are : The Races of= Stone, Wild, Dragons. Complete X( all of them), PHBII, and the core 3, and Spell Compendium so these are what I have for reference..

 

[maggot]

If you are willing to multi-class a primary spellcaster (and I know some people aren't), Druid/Monk is pretty dang cool. Wis is primary to both classes. Find out how your DM rules on unarmed strike in alternate forms. Can a bear stunning fist?

 

[pawsplay]

I would go monk 4/druid 4/sacred fist, which a) preserves your BAB, b) sidesteps the question of how to get wildshape to work with unarmed strike, and c) allows you to finish out SF with two levels to spare, pre-epic.

If you want to be a kung fu bear, this is hard. How to get both decent wildshape progression and monk fighting? I believe UA offers an unarmed druid variant which might be worth looking into.

 

[GwydapLlew]

There is a Half-Drow Bard/Druid/Monk in SCAP. As a support NPC, she has been surprisingly effective in my game.

 

[Particle_Man]

How does Bard work with Monk? One must be non-lawful, the other lawful. Did you do monk first and then switch over to non-lawful?

 

[Nightfall]

Anger,

I've seen worse...

Fighter/Warrior comes to mind...

 

[Nightfall]

How does Bard work with Monk? One must be non-lawful, the other lawful. Did you do monk first and then switch over to non-lawful?

Well in the Scarred Lands, bards that follow Hedrada, the god of Law and knowledge, can be lawful. Therefore, there are some bard/monks in the Scarred Lands. So it is feasible.

 

[Legildur]

There is a Half-Drow Bard/Druid/Monk in SCAP. As a support NPC, she has been surprisingly effective in my game.

LOL! Those three PC classes are seen as lame ducks in my live games.... Consequently I've seen it as a challenge to build each class to play from 1st level whenever I get the opportunity.

So far my 14th level elven druid with Augment Summoning, Natural Spell and a couple of Sudden metamagic feats has proved more than successful in defeating many obstacles.

I think a monk might be next on the agenda

 

[Darklone]

DruidX/Monk1 is hell on earth.

I had a halfling with 1 level monk rest druid, high Wisdom. Stunning fist DCs were high and the bonus to AC as animal rocked. Add Animal Growth and turning into a Giant Octopus... at level 10 with AC 30+.

Add in preparatory spells with long durations like Barkskin and Produce Flame (to add some nice fire damage to your unarmed attack) and you have one PC who can rip the rest of the group to pieces without blinking by just using one wildshape and one or two spells.

 

[jedavis]

Monk and druid lame ducks? I prefer monk, personally.... Consider the 20th level dwarven monk with permahaste 3.0 (Haste bracers of armor, defenders of the faith + Arms and Equipment Guide), with free trip attempt whenever he inflicted 10 or more points of damage with a single hit (Knockdown feat, Sword and Fist), crazy speed and AC (from boosted wisdom, boots of springing and striding, and haste), and 1d4 negative levels inflicted per hit (Defenders of the faith armors again). Killed the tarrasque in 2-3 rounds by negative levels inflicted upon its stomach.

Monk = kick butt. Druid = kick butt. Monk + druid = kick lots of butt.
Except for the multiclass restrictions on monk... was there an ascetic druid feat in CAv? Even if there wasn't, I could see a monastic order of druids develop such a feat.