Monster Mashup - Master Thread

Game Master CaveToad

How does gambit give +6 when you only have 16 charisma? Did you write wrong how much cha you have? Your rolls were awesome. Also, our item give us weapon focus for free at level 3, so you might want to look at other options to avoid retraining.

I am surprised you picked circular stance over scarlet einhander, but that's just preference I guess and you are probably planning on mostly using the sword in both hands anyway.

I like your character, he is strong ;).

He needs weapon focus now for crusaders flurry or half the build falls apart. No more flurry with sword or kata-panache synergy etc

The brave gambit is a charge, it is +4cha and +2 from charge.

I see him using the weapon two handed more just as flavor, but Scarlet Einhander is on the list now that I can use weapon one handed if I choose.

Goliath is ready to go when needed. I don't post a lot on the weekends as that is time to spend with the wife and play in the table top games she lets me play in :), but I do check in when I can. Also go away a lot for SCA and my knight is prince right now so lots of events for those that do this as well. I do post a lot from work though as long as things are slow, and since I'm a good IT guy and keep stuff running well they usually are besides for when crap breaks :)

yes as Cave Toad Ninja'd me I need WF now. I will retrain later if its and option.

Retraining anything but classes/archetypes is allowed, but costs gold and time as normal.

I forgot to include Hero points. Will add that now. I noticed others are level 2, will I need to level up or just catch up in game?

Hope the group I'm with will appreciate the +2 attack and damage for 3 rounds from Encouraging Roar and Community minded :)

He told Cthulhu_Eats to start at 1, so I think all new players (for now) have to catch up.

Edit: Don't worry it won't take long - we got 1 to 2 in one (difficult) battle.

Yeah for now it is level 1. There is some difference in power of course, but its easy to catch up fast. If I am not able to get you in until later then I may have you up a level or whatever is needed to bring you in line. Same goes for anyone who is still out there working on submissions.

Not too worried, but with the damage I'm sure we can all throw around level 1 is scary, Hope my parry keeps me alive :)

Is there a link that I can read up on what the group has done, or do you not know where I may be added yet?

I promise any super powerful thing I come up with is purely coincidental. XD

I'm really just progressing these like three individual classes that I try to keep running on a common thread. I don't look for power combinations. Sometimes it might happen, because I have a very bad sense of power, but I'm mostly just picking stuff that looks fun.

But doing powerful things and being able to beat the crazy enemies CaveToad will put together is one of the most fun things to do in this game. I wouldn't want to exclude that even if I also want awesome story, character development and roleplay.

The power growth of most characters in this game will likely be exponential as the various abilities synergizes more and more. The difference is the most felt between level 1 and 2 of course where the characters will pretty much double their HP and hence vastly increase their survivability.

Definitely. I wouldn't have customized the rules to the level that I did and allow the various materials if I wasn't expecting people make great synergized builds. I still want to be strict about the rules that are in place though. There is exciting(hopefully) stuff coming though. It is still very early, and storyline wise very formative.

I'm excited. Well about time to call it a day and head to happy hour. I should be on the computer a bit tomorrow. Everyone have a great weekend.

I'm not sure there are any characters who don't have something sketchy. I just calls em like everyone sees em. :)

I dunno... a lot of us have builds that fall very squarely inside the rules. It's not my fault if the writers accidentally worded Misfortune in a way that's incredibly beneficial to the team, or Arcane Bloodrider is good enough to be an effective gestalt of its own. :p

Hotaru of the Society wrote:

I'm not sure there are any characters who don't have something sketchy. I just calls em like everyone sees em. :)

I dunno... a lot of us have builds that fall very squarely inside the rules. It's not my fault if the writers accidentally worded Misfortune in a way that's incredibly beneficial to the team, or Arcane Bloodrider is good enough to be an effective gestalt of its own. :p

It's not my fault I got a raging eidolon that'll eventually get all my teamwork feats and rage powers too...

Since we are speaking about rules. It's possible to pick Additional traits->Practiced initiator (from the pow2 feats document). However, if I pick it at level 4 where I also get my first level of warlord, will I be able to use it for the purposes of picking maneuvers? Or do I have pick it at level 3 in order to apply it when I take level 4?

You can just retrain your maneuvers...

Skills and feats are the last you do add when you level up, so the feat Additional Traits and thus the trait(s) would be the last thing picked, after you chose an initiator class.

In your example, and using the text of the Initiator level description on Path of War page 26. If you took a warlord cheese dip you would normally be considered to have an initiator level of warlord 1 + 1/2 of your other classes if you are multiclass. In this case your gestalt build counts as your other class ( you don't get to take all three classes' levels ). So, your initiator level for warlord is considered 3. Now if you add the Practiced Initiator trait, it bumps to level 4. At level 5 it would bump to 5. At level 6 it would be 6 but at 7 it would be still be 6 ( 1 WL + 3 Ges + 2 trait ). At 8 you get another warlord level and another half level, so (2+4+2 ) so back to 8th etc.

It's a generous method they allow for multiclassers and works even better with the trait and my cheese method. IL only affects the bonuses based off of it, but also maneuvers known so that is sort of a big deal. It doesn't grant you abilities from the class that require a higher level ( I guess that is obvious).

Hmm... actually, if Practiced Initiator gives you maneuvers known, it's WAY more powerful than its non-POW equivalent. Dang.

Wow, that's different than I thought it would work. I assumed that when I read level 4/Warlord 1 my initiator level would be "warlord levels +(other levels-warlord)/2) which would mean 2 at level 4 without the trait. This makes the cheese dip even better. Thanks for clearing up how this works. This means I don't actually need additional traits at level 4 since I can pick 2nd level maneuvers anyway, and I can't pick 3rd level maneuvers (and I don't think I am picking anything that scales of initiator level).

@thunderbeard: Practiced Initiator is pretty crazy, it basically allow you to dip 4 levels in another class then pick an initiator class and still follow normal maneuver progression so you start straight with level 3 maneuvers at level 5 (Kiki on our table is planning to do this I think). Initiator Level is used very little in the actual effects of the maneuvers though, unlike spells.

It works exactly like Magical Knack does. You get access to higher level maneuvers (because that's based on IL) but you don't learn new maneuvers or stances, gain more maneuvers readied, except when you get additional levels in the Initiator class.

It works exactly like Magical Knack does. You get access to higher level maneuvers (because that's based on IL) but you don't learn new maneuvers or stances, gain more maneuvers readied, except when you get additional levels in the Initiator class.

The fact that maneuver level access is based on initiator level makes it very different though. A Fighter 4/Wizard 1 with magical knack would only get 1st level spells while a Fighter 4/Warlord 1 with practiced initiator would get access to 3rd level maneuvers (even if there are very few of them). Since maneuvers are per encounter and you can even recover them the number of them you have isn't nearly as important as their level. Sure you lose out on the scaling of the other abilities of the PoW class, but those abilities are usually not scaling that hard anyway (gambits for example are purely based on charisma).

That is true. But those 2nd and 3rd level maneuvers you picked up will start to show age pretty quickly. They never really keep up with Full Attacking (outside of a few which are likely at the top of the list to get powered down once DSP gets around to errata'ing BB and PF) so even if you grab a few neat boots and counters, it's still not really that huge of a deal.

Those 1st level spells the Wizard gives the Fighter can actually be super good, even long into the higher levels. Enlarge Person, Long Arm, Grease, Mount, etc. Is a single attack with a couple extra d6s (2d6-3d6, generally, depending on the discipline) and maybe an extra condition on top of that really going to be worth using over just emptying your full attack into somebody? I'm unconvinced.

Practiced Initiator's an awesome trait, nonetheless, if you take it for the purposes of our cheese dips. I'd rather just have an Initiator as one of my primary classes. ;)

Err, higher level maneuvers become powerful heal or debuff spells. They're not about dealing damage; PoW classes effectively get good caster progression on top of full martial ability.

Also, Enlarge Person, Long Arm, and Grease are all useless at higher levels when not attacking for a round (or casting a better debuff for the wizard, or moving in the case of Enlarge) can seriously cripple your party.

Practiced Initiator is just one more broken thing from PoW.

You don't get to trade in maneuvers until 4th level of any Initiator class. That means that you're stuck with the maneuvers you chose for a very long time, and 1) you can only trade them out 1 at a time, and 2) there are very few "powerful heal or debuff" maneuvers early on, by design.

Furthermore, those kinds of spells (except grease) are minute/level spells or aren't intended for combat at all. You're never casting them in combat, so the wasted action argument is silly. A Fighter 9/Wizard 1 (who picked up Magical Knack) would be able to toss those spells on himself for 3 minutes a pop, which can easily be done in situations where you can see the enemy coming, for utility purposes, or whatever.

But whatever, we've done this song and dance already. I'll continue to enjoy playing my PoW classes, and that won't ever change.

You don't get to trade in maneuvers until 4th level of any Initiator class. That means that you're stuck with the maneuvers you chose for a very long time, and 1) you can only trade them out 1 at a time, and 2) there are very few "powerful heal or debuff" maneuvers early on, by design.

Welcome to the challenges of being any spontaneous caster. Knowing spells as though you were two levels higher is always extremely powerful, so enjoy it, I guess.

Also, minute/level spells don't last long enough to cast in preparation unless you're either on a flat plain or can ambush everyone always.

I didn't realize that you guys were back with more slots
What was my application missing again?

Back from the weekend, waiting around, hoping to join you guys.

I didn't realize that you guys were back with more slots

What was my application missing again?

Who is your character?

So the errata from friday on the ACG killed my build. So I need to change some things up. I can make it work still by replacing warlord with swashbuckler and wielding the bastard sword in one hand. I need to think. Will post in a bit.

What is it you need from swashbuckler? Could taking the 4 first levels as swashbuckler then the rest as warlord using practiced initiator (or just cheesedip warlord) help? Practiced initiator let you get full initiator level as long as you take a maximum of 4 levels in another class.

I was using Kata master to be able to parry and flurry with my weapon as crusaders flurry made it a monk weapon. The errata limited Parry/Riposte only to the swashbuckler. They changed Amateur Swashbuckler feat and all archetypes that picked up parry. It was replaced with the dodge on the Kata master. I like the idea of a warrior that can parry what 4 attacks a round with combat reflexes and fights unarmored relying on his sword fighting ability. So yes delaying warlord seems the best idea.

Edit: I will let me go unchained monk now for the flurry with no negative so that's nice. Looking at build still to see what I want to do. May just forgo the ability to flurry and come up with something different.

Edit: Though the unchained flurry is only better on the front end just getting one extra attack with no -2 penalty.

I am probably going to pick up swashbuckler myself at some point just for parry, but I'll either do so through the 8th level cheese dip or through twin mind. The rest of the swashbuckler class is just not that interesting to me (charmed life is worse than steadfast gambit and using the weapon in both hands is better than one so most of the other stuff doesn't apply). Swashbuckler 4 into warlord synergizes very nicely though. It seems like you'll be able to take advantage of the extra damage from using a single weapon as well.

Yeah the high strength + Flurry means no difference between 1h or 2h PA is the only thing that changes. Weapon training and precise strike will make up the difference and being able to parry with a good attack is invaluable for Melee.

Note that Precise Strike now mostly only works for Swashbucklers too...

Yeah I will probably make Swash my main class and take warlord as my cheese dip. Picking up the practiced Initiator.

This works right?

Until level 3 when precise strike comes online I can 2H the bastard sword on my attack to get 1.5 Str, then free action to keep the sword in one hand. The benefit would be if I riposte after a parry to drop the opponent. This would regain the panache but only be at normal str damage on the attack. Now at level 3 I will probably just be 1h the weapon all the time.

First draft of Gon Barren, Minataur monk/bloodrager/alchemist:

Strength 22
Constitution 20
Dexterity 14
Intelligence 18
Wisdom 16
Charisma 14
Character image
HP 16
Base Speed [ 40 (6 sq.) ]

AC [16] = 10 +2 [Dex] +3 [Wis] -1 [Large Size] +2 [Ma Skin!]
Touch AC [14] Flat-Footed [14]

BASE ATTACK BONUS
+1
Basic Melee Attack +7
Basic Ranged Attack +2

normal unarmed strike (no buffs)
1d20+8 to hit, 1d8+1d4+7
pummling strike 1d20+6, 1d20+6, see above x2 if both hit, x4 (or rather, x2 x2) and sickened if either one is a crit

when raging that's a +4 to hit and damage, mutagen is a +2, sneek attack is a +1d6,

FORTITUDE SAVE
+7 = 2 [base] +5 [Con]
REFLEX SAVE
+4 = 2 [base] +2 [Dex]
WILL SAVE
+5 = 2 [base] +3 [Wis]

CMB
+8 = 1 [BAB] +6 [Str] +1 [size]
CMD
+23 = 10 +1 [BAB] +6 [Str] +2 [Dex] +1 [size] +3 [Wis]

skills Acrobatics* +2 = DEX 2+0+0
Appraise +4 = INT 4+0+0
Bluff +2 = CHA 2+0+0
Climb* +6 = STR 6+0+0
Craft +4 = INT 4+0+0
Craft +8 = INT 4+1+3
Craft +4 = INT 4+0+0
Diplomacy +2 = CHA 2+0+0
Disable Device*† +6 = DEX 2+1+3
Disguise +2 = CHA 2+0+0
Escape Artist* +2 = DEX 2+0+0
Fly* +2 = DEX 2+0+0
Handle Animal† +2 = CHA 2+0+0
Heal +8 = WIS 4+1+3
Intimidate +6 = CHA 2+1+3
K (Arcana)† +8 = INT 4+1+3
K (Dungeoneering)† +4 = INT 4+0+0
K (Engineering)† +4 = INT 4+0+0
K (Geography)† +4 = INT 4+0+0
K (History)† +4 = INT 4+0+0
K (Local)† +4 = INT 4+0+0
K (Nature)† +8 = INT 4+1+3
K (Nobility)† +4 = INT 4+0+0
K (Planes)† +4 = INT 4+0+0
K (Religion)† +4 = INT 4+0+0
Linguistics† +4 = INT 4+0+0
Perception +9 = WIS 3+1+3+2 [Racial]
Perform +2 = CHA 2+0+0
Perform +2 = CHA 2+0+0
Profession† +3 = WIS 3+0+0
Profession† +3 = WIS 3+0+0
Ride +2 = DEX 2+0+0
Sense Motive +7 = WIS 3+1+3
Sleight of Hand*† +2 = DEX 2+0+0
Spellcraft† +4 = INT 4+0+0
Stealth* +6 = DEX 2+1+3
Survival +12 = WIS 3+1+3+2 [Racial]+3 [Skill Focus]
Swim* +6 = STR 6+0+0
Use Magic Device† +2 = CHA 2+0+0
Use Magic Device† +2 = CHA 2+0+0

Feats:
Skill focus (survival) +3 to survival

Pummling style: Benefit: As a full-round action, you can pool all your attack potential in one devastating punch. Make a number of rolls equal to the number of attacks you can make with a full attack or a flurry of blows (your choice) with the normal attack bonus for each attack. For each roll that is a hit, you deal the normal amount of damage, adding it to any damage the attack has already dealt from previous rolls (if any). If any of the attack rolls are critical threats, make one confirmation roll for the entire attack at your highest base attack bonus. If it succeeds, the entire attack is a confirmed critical hit. You can only use Pummeling Style with unarmed strikes (see errata at right).

Weapon focus (unarmed strike)

Beliker's Bite

Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike.

Benefit: When you damage an opponent with an unarmed strike, you deal an extra 1d4 bleed damage.

Dragon Style (Combat)
You call upon the spirit of dragonkind, gaining greater resilience, mobility, and fierceness from the blessing of these great beings.

Prerequisites: Str 15, Improved Unarmed Strike,

Benefit: While using this style, you gain a +2 bonus on saving throws against sleep effects, paralysis effects, and stunning effects. You ignore difficult terrain when you charge, run, or withdraw. You can also charge through squares that contain allies. Further, you can add 1-1/2 times your Strength bonus on the damage roll for your first unarmed strike on a given round.

Normal: You cannot charge or run through difficult terrain, and you cannot charge through a square that contains an ally. With an unarmed strike, you usually add your Strength bonus on damage rolls.

Hamatulatsu Strike (Combat)
You have mastered a deadly fighting form inspired by the hideous attacks of the barbed devil.

Prerequisites: Improved Unarmed Strike, Weapon Focus (unarmed strike).

Benefit: Your unarmed attacks can deal either bludgeoning or piercing damage. You decide which type of damage you deal whenever you attack a foe, but you may only choose one type at a time. If you critically hit a foe with your unarmed strike while doing piercing damage, the additional pain caused by the strike causes the foe to become sickened for 1 round (or staggered for 1 round if the target is already sickened). Multiple critical hits in a round against a single foe do not increase the duration of the sickened or staggered condition.

Special: Hamatulatsu Strike may be selected as a substitute bonus feat at 6th level by a monk even if the monk does not otherwise meet the prerequisites. This fighting style is normally only taught to women of a specific fighting school.

Traits
Honored Fist of the Society (Monk, Society)
You have studied dozens of ancient texts on martial arts that only the Society possesses, and are more learned in these arts than most.

Benefit: You increase your ki pool by 1 point.

Heavy Hitter

Benefit: You gain a +1 trait bonus on damage rolls made with unarmed attacks.

CARRYING CAPACITY (normal)
Light Load: 346lbs.
Medium Load: 692lbs.
Heavy Load: 1040lbs.
Lift Over Head: 1040lbs.
Lift Off Ground: 2080lbs.
Push or Drag: 5200lb

carrying capacity when using mutagen
CARRYING CAPACITY
Light Load: 612lbs.
Medium Load: 1226lbs.
Heavy Load: 1840lbs.
Lift Over Head: 1840lbs.
Lift Off Ground: 3680lbs.
Push or Drag: 9200lbs.

Carrying capacity when raging (technically a 29 str not a 30, but whatever, I can go elephant tipping and can carry horses as is)
Light Load: 932lbs.
Medium Load: 1866lbs.
Heavy Load: 2800lbs.
Lift Over Head: 2800lbs.
Lift Off Ground: 5600lbs.
Push or Drag: 14001lbs.

Alchemist Extracts Per Day
Level 1 1 + 1 [Int] (typically 2 cure light wounds)

Brew Potion (Ex)

At 1st level, alchemists receive Brew Potion as a bonus feat. An alchemist can brew potions of any formulae he knows (up to 3rd level), using his alchemist level as his caster level. The spell must be one that can be made into a potion. The alchemist does not need to meet the prerequisites for this feat.

Mutagen (Su)

At 1st level, an alchemist discovers how to create a mutagen that he can imbibe in order to heighten his physical prowess at the cost of his personality. It takes 1 hour to brew a dose of mutagen, and once brewed, it remains potent until used. An alchemist can only maintain one dose of mutagen at a time—if he brews a second dose, any existing mutagen becomes inert. As with an extract or bomb, a mutagen that is not in an alchemist's possession becomes inert until an alchemist picks it up again.

When an alchemist brews a mutagen, he selects one physical ability score—either Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution. It's a standard action to drink a mutagen. Upon being imbibed, the mutagen causes the alchemist to grow bulkier and more bestial, granting him a +2 natural armor bonus and a +4 alchemical bonus to the selected ability score for 10 minutes per alchemist level. In addition, while the mutagen is in effect, the alchemist takes a –2 penalty to one of his mental ability scores. If the mutagen enhances his Strength, it applies a penalty to his Intelligence. If it enhances his Dexterity, it applies a penalty to his Wisdom. If it enhances his Constitution, it applies a penalty to his Charisma.

A non-alchemist who drinks a mutagen must make a Fortitude save (DC 10 + 1/2 the alchemist's level + the alchemist's Intelligence modifier) or become nauseated for 1 hour—a non-alchemist can never gain the benefit of a mutagen, but an alchemist can gain the effects of another alchemist's mutagen if he drinks it. (Although if the other alchemist creates a different mutagen, the effects of the “stolen” mutagen immediately cease.) The effects of a mutagen do not stack. Whenever an alchemist drinks a mutagen, the effects of any previous mutagen immediately end.

Throw Anything (Ex)

All alchemists gain the Throw Anything feat as a bonus feat at 1st level. An alchemist adds his Intelligence modifier to damage done with splash weapons, including the splash damage if any. This bonus damage is already included in the bomb class feature.

Sneak Attack

At 1st level, a vivisectionist gains the sneak attack ability as a rogue of the same level. If a character already has sneak attack from another class, the levels from the classes that grant sneak attack stack to determine the effective rogue level for the sneak attack’s extra damage dice (so an alchemist 1/rogue 1 has a +1d6 sneak attack like a 2nd-level rogue, an alchemist 2/rogue 1 has a +2d6 sneak attack like a 3rd-level rogue, and so on).
This ability replaces bomb.

Bloodrage (Su)

The bloodrager's source of internal power grants him the ability to bloodrage.

At 1st level, a bloodrager can bloodrage for a number of rounds per day equal to 4 + his Constitution modifier. At each level after 1st, he can bloodrage for 2 additional rounds per day. Temporary increases to Constitution (such as those gained from bloodraging or spells like bear's endurance) don't increase the total number of rounds that a bloodrager can bloodrage per day. The total number of rounds of bloodrage per day is renewed after resting for 8 hours, although these hours need not be consecutive.

A bloodrager can enter a bloodrage as a free action. While in a bloodrage, a bloodrager gains a +4 morale bonus to his Strength and Constitution, as well as a +2 morale bonus on Will saves. In addition, he takes a –2 penalty to Armor Class. The increase to Constitution grants the bloodrager 2 hit points per Hit Die, but these disappear when the bloodrage ends and are not lost first like temporary hit points. While bloodraging, a bloodrager cannot use any Charisma-, Dexterity-, or Intelligence-based skills (except Acrobatics, Fly, Intimidate, and Ride) or any ability that requires patience or concentration.

A bloodrager can end his bloodrage as a free action. When the bloodrage ends, he's fatigued for a number of rounds equal to twice the number of rounds spent in the bloodrage. A bloodrager cannot enter a new bloodrage while fatigued or exhausted, but can otherwise enter bloodrage multiple times during a single encounter or combat. If a bloodrager falls unconscious, his bloodrage immediately ends, placing him in peril of death.

Bloodrage counts as the barbarian's rage class feature for the purpose of feat prerequisites, feat abilities, magic item abilities, and spell effects.

Fast Movement (Ex)

A bloodrager's land speed is faster than is normal for his race by 10 feet. This benefit applies only when he is wearing no armor, light armor, or medium armor, and not carrying a heavy load. Apply this bonus before modifying the bloodrager's speed due to any armor worn or load carried. This bonus stacks with any other bonuses to the bloodrager's land speed.

Bloodline Familiars

Source Familiar Folio

Those with an inherent connection to magic often attract creatures who feel a similar instinctive pull toward magical forces. At 1st level, a sorcerer, bloodrager, or any other character with one of the following bloodlines can choose to gain a bloodline familiar. The character gains a familiar (as a wizard's familiar), treating her class level as her wizard level for the purposes of this ability. This familiar has an additional ability listed below based on the master's bloodline.

This replaces the 1st-level bloodline power granted by the character's bloodline; in addition, the character gains bonus spells from her bloodline one level later than she normally would. For example, a sorcerer with the aberrant bloodline who takes a bloodline familiar would not gain the acidic ray bloodline power, and she would gain her first bonus spell at 4th level, her second bonus spell at 6th level, and so on.

GMs may use the following bloodline familiar abilities as written, or employ them as guidelines for devising bloodline familiar abilities for bloodlines not listed below.

Grotesque Appendages (Ex)

The damage dice of each of the familiar's natural attacks increases by one die step.

Unarmed Strike

At 1st level, a monk gains Improved Unarmed Strike as a bonus feat. A monk's attacks may be with fist, elbows, knees, and feet. This means that a monk may make unarmed strikes with his hands full. There is no such thing as an off-hand attack for a monk striking unarmed. A monk may thus apply his full Strength bonus on damage rolls for all his unarmed strikes.

Usually a monk's unarmed strikes deal lethal damage, but he can choose to deal nonlethal damage instead with no penalty on his attack roll. He has the same choice to deal lethal or nonlethal damage while grappling.

A monk's unarmed strike is treated as both a manufactured weapon and a natural weapon for the purpose of spells and effects that enhance or improve either manufactured weapons or natural weapons.

A monk also deals more damage with his unarmed strikes than a normal person would, as shown above on Table: Monk. The unarmed damage values listed on Table: Monk is for Medium monks. A Small monk deals less damage than the amount given there with his unarmed attacks, while a Large monk deals more damage; see Table: Small or Large Monk Unarmed Damage.

The master of many styles is a collector. For every move, he seeks a counter. For every style, he has a riposte. Ultimately, he seeks perfection through the fusion of styles.

Bonus Feat

At 1st level, 2nd level, and every four levels thereafter, a master of many styles may select a bonus style feat or the Elemental Fist feat. He does not have to meet the prerequisites of that feat, except the Elemental Fist feat. Alternatively, a master of many styles may choose a feat in that style’s feat path (such as Earth Child Topple) as one of these bonus feats if he already has the appropriate style feat (such as Earth Child Style). The master of many styles does not need to meet any other prerequisite of the feat in the style’s feat path.

This ability replaces a monk’s standard bonus feats.

Fuse Style (Ex)

At 1st level, a master of many styles can fuse two of the styles he knows into a more perfect style. The master of many styles can have two style feat stances active at once. Starting a stance provided by a style feat is still a swift action, but when the master of many styles switches to another style feat, he can choose one style whose stance is already active to persist. He may only have two style feat stances active at a time. At 8th level, the master of many styles can fuse three styles at once. He can have the stances of three style feats active at the same time. Furthermore, he can enter up to three stances as a swift action.

At 15th level, the master of many styles can fuse four styles at once. He can have the stances of four style feats active at the same time. Furthermore, he can enter up to four stances as a free action by spending 1 point from his ki pool.

This ability replaces flurry of blows.

The monk of the four winds is connected to the natural world in a way few other creatures—even other monks—can hope to match. He can call upon the elements and the spirits of the world in times of need, and as he nears his goal of perfection, he gains the ability to slow down time and even defeat death itself. A monk of the four winds has the following class features.

Elemental Fist (Su)

At 1st level, a monk of the four winds gains Elemental Fist as a bonus feat, even if he does not meet the prerequisites. At 5th level, and every five levels thereafter, the monk increases the damage of his Elemental Fist by 1d6 (2d6 at 5th level, 3d6 at 10th level, and so on).

This ability replaces stunning fist.

That could probably use a spoiler for length...

First draft of Gon Barren, Minataur monk/bloodrager/alchemist:

If you lose flurry of blows what good is pummeling style?

Pummeling style works very well with two weapon fighting too, Cave (you can two-weapon fighting with unarmed...).

What he said
That and I was planning on using my cheese dip to get something else with a flurry

I get that, but he doesn't have TWF, so the -hit penalties would be like -4/-8 ( and not reflected in the math, which also still appears to be off ). Unless I am missing something else.

Unchained monk would help the minus to hit, but would disqualify for archetypes.

He can't take both dragon style and pummeling style since he qualifies for neither and he only gets to ignore prerequisites for one of them. The great thing about using twf instead of flurry of blows is that you can use natural attacks together with the unarmed strikes and since he is a monk he can still pick up horn of the chrinosphinx when that becomes available.

It looks like he meats the prereqs for dragon style. And as mentioned pummeling can be taken for free.

Right, I'll fix the math.
Swap skill focus for TWF
Swap dragon style for one I qualify for, or, if I can't find any, I put it in for some other feat

You need 3 ranks in Acrobatics, which can't be done until you have 3 HD.

Also, you need Dex 15 to qualify for TWF. Yours is only 14.

He could take Prodigious Two-Weapon Fighting in order to qualify off strength instead, though it's kind of a waste if he's just going to use unarmed strikes. Might be better to move dex around, but even then he'll have a rough time qualifying for the rest of the twf line...

Natural attacks don't work with pummeling style, though (which has also been nerfed in the latest errata)

Honestly, I don't see the real purpose of keeping Pummeling Style only for unarmed strikes now that it doesn't have the crit mechanic. It was fine when it was unarmed-only because unarmed strikes have an awful crit range/modifier, but now that it doesn't care, I can't see why it's particularly necessary to still restrict it only to fists, and not close weapons beyond the very sketchy fluff (are you seriously saying I can't make a super powerful punch with a cestus on?).

But nobody asked me, so whatever.

Here's my sheet for Ctha'at-Sebek.

Ctha'at-sebek
Class: 1 Summoner|1 Warlord|1 Oracle