More Monk Questions

I am trying to practice NWN again, and started a new PC for the lowbie challenges.

Boris the Butcher McJagger is 6th; all Monk currently; no special sub-race, and Gort was chosen as a diety. My current design plan is Monk/ DwD/ Rogue; thinking either 20 or 30 lvls of Monk, and the rest to fill for Defensive Awareness, DwD Dmg Reduction, increased BAB for kama usage, and UMD primarily; maybe Search, Appraise, and other Skill related goodness.

My current Feats are Toughness, Dodge, and Blind Fight; planning on Ambi/ TWF/ ITWF too; maybe Imp Crit: Kama. I am also going with a STR design to make Kama use have more slice, though Dev Crit is not in the picture (dislike this Feat personally).

Any useful advice here would be appreciated.

I also need to know more of Monk items. As I do not plan to gain UMD until Epic lvls, I want to seek the best Monk gear possible, esp in the pre-Epic lvls. What is out there already? I know that vouchers will be needed for kamas, but what of robes, belts, boots, etc?

Thanks for the help!

How many rogue levels you thinking of going with? Dwarves favored class is fighter, so you'll be taking a 20% multiclass penalty when you take the rogue levels and they aren't within 1 level of your monk levels. Assassin may be better since it gets UMD as well, but won't incure a multiclass penalty since it's a prestige class.

I'd say go improved crit, take great cleave as well, and if no dev crit, overwhelming crit is still useful.

Depending on your starting constitution, it may be worth some investment into con in order to get epic damage reduction. EDR will stack with the dwarven defender DR.

For items... really not a lot of useful robes for non-wizards/sorcs (and even then it's somewhat limited).

Since you'll be using kamas, you'll be able to use the +8 AC bracers, making shadowhide rainment useless.... so the next best choice would be a robe of eyes (true seeing, darkvision). After that.... nothing useful pops into mind.

Speedy boots will be good when coupled with the monk speed bonus. Even if you're super weighed down by look, you'll be able to outrun a lot of baddies. AC rings, bulwark amulet... really nothing special gear wise for kama-monks, so it's just gear to boost your AC or resistances/immunities.

I will aim at 4-10 lvls of Rogue; enough for UMD at least. While I overlooked the XP penalty, it is still managable since I have no sub-race penalties this time.

And unless there is a compelling reason, I do not play Evil much at all, esp in m/p settings.

Seeing as there already is a monk related topic here, I shall recycle it and ask mine.

Does the Demonspawn SR and the Monk SR stack with each other, or does it just go after which is higher and make use of that?

That's a good question actually.

The answer is somewhat surprising actually as the monk SR will override any other source of SR, even if that other source is higher, unlike the stacking rules for every other single property in the game.

And a little clarification, that's only for MONK spell resistance.

For all other sources of spell resistance, there's also no stacking, but you get the benefit of the highest source. It's only monk SR that completely overrides all other sources regardless of the number.

Aha, thank you. I take it that is one of those hard-coded things?

It shouldn't be a problem for me, since I plan on a pure monk build--wish to see that paragon ability in play. '

Yes. It's also related to why you can't nerf monk SR with spells such as mord's or spell breaches.

Really ?... MY Drow Monk ended up with SR46 at lv 40 (drow SR = 6+level) despite only having 20 Monk levels (Diamond Soul SR =10 + Monk level == 30) ...

Admittedly that was only based on what the character sheet said... and we all know how much that lies when compared to the actual combat log...

Might be knocking on a certain wizards or sorceress' door for some playtesting when my drow is back at 40th ... ...

greetings!
i just teleported to this world from the land of google... it looks way cool! i'm looking fwd to running a character.

i too had a question about monks. suppose a winged character decides to become a monk -- do the speed increases from class and subrace stack?

thanks!