Monk - Gunslinger hybrid

[jalroy]

Just thinking about this the other day, and was considering the movie Equilibrium with Christian Bale, and the Gramiton Clerics, and the Gunkata, and then considered how cool it could be to have a class archtype for Monk that is like this.

It's easy to play a monk and take the feat to use Guns, but thought it could be more fun to exchange Ki and Grit abilities somehow so to better combine the two classes. I am still mulling it over how to do this, but figured someone out there has either thought of this idea before (possible) or could give some suggestions.

I only started think about this yesterday so really haven't figured anything out yet. Anyone else out there think this could be a good combo?

[TeShen]

jalroy wrote:

. . . Anyone else out there think this could be a good combo?

Yes.

Yes I do.

Possibly the amateur gunsmith and extra grit feats in place of the monk's first level bonus feat.
At second level, allow the gun to be treated as a monk weapon and the pistol whip deed (for 0 grit cost) to be taken in place of the second level bonus feat.
Allow a monk to select a deed as if a gunslinger two level lower in place of the following monk class abilities: slow fall (4th), high jump (5th), wholeness of body (7th), diamond body (11th), abundant step (12th), diamond soul (13th), quivering palm (15th), timeless body (17th), tongue of the sun and moon (17th), empty body (19th), and perfect self (20th). This replaces the monk class ability the monk gives up.

(Yeah, I obviously ripped from the qinggong monk.) I don't really know if it balances. For some reason, I get the feeling that a lot of the grit abilities won't synergize with monk abilities... And actually, having two different resource pools depending on wisdom might not be a bad thing... I will ponder.

[jalroy]

Yeah I have a Qinggong monk I am playing in one game so considered that. I need to look at some of the ninja abilities cause I seem to recall seeing something about firearms somewhere, or that may have been a rogue trait. Those ideas are a good start though