Monks and Multiclassing

[xaviorbat]

My friends and I are recently getting into pathfinder and we just recently noticed something. I wanted to check before I said anything to our GM though, as it appears monks no longer have that limit to multiclassing (aka having to stop leveling in monk all together if they want to be anything but monk) Can someone illuminate this for me? Are monks still restricted, or are they open now?"

[concerro]

There is no restriction.

[Tiny Coffee Golem]

Monks are only restricted by alignment, but otherwise they can multiclass freely.

[blackbloodtroll]

They are only disallowed to advance as a monk, if they become non-lawful.
They are otherwise unrestricted.

Double ninja'd.

[xaviorbat]

Very interesting, thanks guys, I found info that suggests paladins are the same way, I'll pass this on to the GM and watch him pour over his books trying to bind us lol.

[Daryl MacLeod]

Be careful about multiclassing though. PF has been changed to somewhat discourage multiclassing.

With 3.5 it could be extremely advantagous to multi-class - I find that in PF it more often pays better rewards to focus on a single class.

[Are]

Daryl MacLeod wrote:

PF has been changed to somewhat discourage multiclassing.

I think it's more accurate to say PF encourages single-classing :)

[Ughbash]

Monks could not multiclass in 1.0.

They did not exist in 2.0

They could multiclass in 3.0 and later.

[Krodjin]

Ughbash wrote:

Monks could not multiclass in 1.0.

They did not exist in 2.0

They could multiclass in 3.0 and later.

In 3.5 I believe there were restrictions that prevented a Monk from ever gaining a level of Monk if they took a level in another class?

It's been awhile so I'm not certain of that.

[Are]

Yes, 3.5 did have that restriction, for some reason. If a monk raised their level in any other class (either a new one or one they belonged to before becoming a monk), they could no longer raise their monk level. They kept their monk abilities, though.