I was looking at class skills and thinking of characters. I thought about the idea of a thief that pretends to be a monk. It seems like the thief would whup the monks butt at everything but saving throws. I admit they don't get immunity to poison or disease but they make up for it with a better range of skills, rogue tricks, and the ever-popular sneak attack. They do less damage with their bare hands but so what? They can still use weapons and get the improved unarmed feat.
My first level pretend monk would use a quarter staff (1d6/1d6) and have the feats two weapon fighting, improved initiative. He is doing the same damage as a monk with his flurry of blows at the same minuses but can choose to make a single two handed attack for extra damage unlike the monk. Although I would lack the monk's wisdom bonus to AC I would make up for it by wearing armour under my robes. I would also have the advantage that I might not need to spread my stats as much as the monk. I would also crank my bluff skill as much as possibble so that I could feint in combat and add my SA damage. "No that wasn't a sneak attack, it was an ancient combat move taught in our temple called 'two soggy plums'" Also I can use a heavy crossbow :) as opposed to a shuriken. I think that although the monk later on gets lots of interesting abilities the rogue would kick his butt especially if I took a dip into an arcane class and picked up mage armour or something similar.
Any thoughts?
Saw >this< and thought it was funny.
Tony Robinson and Rowan Atkinson with terrible pudding bowl cuts? That photo must be 20 years old! Who's the third chap?
That would be Tim McInnerny who played Lord Percy and was in most if not all of the Blackadder series.
One of the best shows ever!
I like how every single reply is almost entirely off topic. Why break tradition?