Monk 1/ fighter 32/ weapon master 7

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Contents 1 Getting Started 2 Level Progression 3 Feats 3.1 Pre-epic 3.2 Fighter bonus feats 3.3 Epic feats 3.4 Fighter bonus epic feats 4 Skills 5 Attack bonus 6 Armor class 7 Notes

[edit] Getting Started

Race: Dwarf

Starting Abilities:

• Strength = 16
• Dexterity = 15
• Constitution = 14
• Wisdom = 10
• Intelligence = 14
• Charisma = 6

Alignment = Any lawful (may change to any after level 1)

[edit] Level Progression

• Level 1 = Monk
• Level 2 - 11 = Fighter
• Level 12 - 18 = Weapon Master
• Level 19 - 40 = Fighter

[edit] Feats

[edit] Pre-epic

• 1 - Two-Weapon Fighting
• 3 - Weapon Focus: kama
• 6 - Weapon Specialization: kama
• 9 - Whirlwind Attack
• 12 - Improved Two-Weapon Fighting
• 15 - Power Attack
• 18 - Toughness

[edit] Fighter bonus feats

• 2 - Ambidexterity
• 3 - Dodge
• 5 - Mobility
• 7 - Spring Attack
• 9 - Expertise
• 11 - Improved Critical: kama
• 20 - Great Cleave

[edit] Epic feats

• 21- Great Strength I
• 24 - Great Strength II
• 27 - Great Strength III
• 30 - Great Strength IV
• 33 - Great Strength V
• 36 - Great Strength VI
• 39 - Epic Toughness IV

[edit] Fighter bonus epic feats

• 22 - Epic Weapon Focus: kama
• 24 - Epic Weapon Specialization: kama
• 26 - Overwhelming Critical: kama
• 28 - Devastating critical: kama
• 30 - Epic Prowess
• 32 - Armor Skin
• 34 - Epic Toughness I
• 36 - Epic Toughness II
• 38 - Epic Toughness III
• 40 - Epic Toughness V

[edit] Skills

180 total points

• 43 Discipline
• 4 Intimidate (required for weapon master)
• 20 Tumble

These skills are the most important for this build.

There are 93 skill points left at level 40. Suggestions are listen and spot (class skills for a weapon master).

[edit] Attack bonus

Based on a +5 AB module

• 29 = Base Attack Bonus
• +11 = strength modifier
• +5 kama
• +4 weapon focus and prowess feats
• 49 unbuffed AB

This exploits the monk's UBAB feature, and so gains two additional main hand attacks per round, with lower penalties between attacks:

49/46/43/40/37/34 attacks per round (main hand), 49/46 attacks per round (off hand)

With Flurry of Blows and haste, this becomes:

47/44/41/38/35/32/47/47 attacks per round (main hand), 47/44 attacks per round (off hand)

[edit] Armor class

Based on a +5 AC module

• 10 - base AC
• 8 - full plate base armor
• +5 - armor AC
• +5 - deflection AC
• +5 - dodge AC
• +5 - natural AC
• +5 - shield AC
• +1 - dexterity Bonus
• +4 - haste
• +2 - armor skin
• +4 - tumble
• 54 Armor Class

[edit] Notes

• This build is a massive abuse of the fact that even one monk level provides access to the monk's UBAB when fighting unarmed or with a kama. It further exploits the fact that flurry of blows works even in armor. Evasion as a free feat is a nice bonus.
• Thanks to improved critical, Ki Critical, and Increased Multiplier, the kama wielded by this character has a critical threat range of 17-20/x3. With up to 10 attacks per round, this means a critical hit is threatened on average twice per round (with one critical hit if the to-hit chance is 50%) for triple damage (76.5 avg.) +2d6 (from overwhelming critical) (total of 87 avg.), plus a fortitude save or die, unless, of course, the target is immune to critical hits.
• All ability increases are used for strength, which produces a strength of 32 at level 40.
• The (unbuffed) devastating critical DC at level 40 is 41.
• Similar results can be achieved by only getting 4 levels of fighter and keeping the rest monk. This will reduce the character's BAB, but will provide a variety of useful defensive feats, as well as greatly increasing movement speed.