Dwarven Monks in Armor

[Noble Knight WBC]

Soon I'll getting into some society games, and need some advice for a character. The unholy abomination is "Rhino" a dwarven hungry ghost monk of the sacred mountain. The big thing is it's a strength build monk with panther style, based on charge attacks, overrun and punishing kicks.

As I pondered this monstrosity, I was thinking... I'm not going to be flurrying much (mostly charges), and being strength based and charging, his AC is gonna tank anyway, so if he gets armor proficiency, dip fighter, or get generous with mithril, he could wear armor without much problems.

My question is about slow and steady, which says speed is never reduced by armor or encumbrance. Does this apply to the monk bonus? I personally don't care, I like it as is, and can make peace with 40' charge if I really need to wear armor.

[Kazaan]

Base speed isn't affected by armor for a Dwarf, but Monk's limitations from armor aren't tied to the encumbrance of the armor but simply by the fact that they're wearing armor. I almost see it as a waste to have a Dwarf Monk since a lot of the abilities have poor synergy. Another point, you don't provoke AoO during a charge; that Panther Style will only come into play for times you provoke through normal movement.

[Weables]

he could certainly provoke during the charge by passing other NPCs

[blackbloodtroll]

Why not Unarmed Fighter, or Brawler Fighter?

Maybe a Monk dip, but not enough to cripple you.

[Kazaan]

Hmm, I hadn't noticed that before. The table is misleading because it says Charge doesn't provoke, but then the subnote says that the action itself doesn't provoke while the movement involved still does. Ok, so a charging Panther Stylist works.

[Noble Knight WBC]

I thought about fighter, but I likes the hungry ghost/sacred mountain synergy... plus monks get things like dodge and combat reflexes without meeting prerequisites.

Honestly, I know it's hardly optimized, just trying to figure out how viable it is.