A drunken brute barbarian also has levels in drunken master monk (with he Enlightened Warrior trait). This character also has the Fortified Drinker trait and the Drunken brawler feat, as well as the Fast Drinker feat. Can he wield a gallon jug of ale (the equivalent of 8 mugs) and take a drink as a swift action, triggering all of his alcohol based abilities? Could he then take another drink as a move action, for another point of drunken ki? The idea is to fire a scorching ray (he has quinggon training) every round, only pausing every 4 rounds to draw another jug.
Drunken Brawler triggers on drinking, so that should combine with everything. Same with Fortified Drinker.
Raging Drunk is slightly more complicated. The rage extension is "instead of the alcohol's normal effect", and this raises the question: Does Raging Drunk cancel all other effects of drinking alcohol, and abilities that trigger off alcohol consumption?
Looking over the archetype, we see that alcohol-triggered rage powers are noted as complementing the drunken brute. Clearly, Raging Drunk is meant to count as alcohol consumption, and "instead of normal effects" is meant to tell the GM not to hit the brute with penalties for being drunk.
Fast Drinker lets you drink as a swift action, Raging Drunk lets you drink as a move action, so I see no problem with your plan.
Being able to use Spell-like abilites while raging is the only part of the build i find dubious.
Here's what you inspired be to build:
Gnome Monk (Drunken Master/Quinggong/Master of Many Styles)
Con 18, wis 14 (or even 16) other stats whatever.
Racial traits of note: Pyromaniac
Highlights:
1: Bonus feat: Archon style
2: Bonus feat: Archon Diversion
3: Drunken Ki, Feat: fast drinker
4: Retrain 1. level feat to Bewildering Koan. Get Ki Power: Scorching Ray.
5: Ki Power: Barkskin,
6: Bonus feat: Archon Justice.
The character doesn't work at all until level 4. Then, he starts spamming Scorching Ray and Bewildering Koan. He doesn't have infinite endurance, but he does start every fight with a pool of temp ki on top of his daily ki. Othen than belching fire and slurred riddles, he dares people to take a swing at him. Sounds like fun.
:) I live to inspire.
However, I don't believe Pyromaniac stacks with a monk's usage of Scorching Ray, as they are Spell-like abilities, and not actual spells.
I never used Retraining rules, but I was under the impression that the feat you put in would have to be one that you could have taken at that level, and monks don't have ki pool's at level 1. And if you were talking about taking out Archon Style, I thought that was also against the rules, as it was a prereq to feats that you took after it. But, I'm really unsure if that's the case.
I've never heard of Archon Style before. I've read Blood of Angels, but don't remember that one...and I don't much know how it's helping your build (but I'm sure if I thought it all through more, it would work better).
Last critique, if you don't mind: I would think that gaining ki every turn would be better than sometimes effectively dazing a single opponent; are you sure you'd want to add another option for your swift actions? I mean, even if you don't want to take a swig of alcohol, you still have options. Increased speed, another attack, or even dodge bonuses are all for the taking. But I just saw, I gotta go. Will check back here in a minute.
Oh, upgrading feats is explicitly allowed.
I took Archon Style because, quite frankly, the character is going to suck at punching. One could choose Sensei instead of MoMS.
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Being able to use Spell-like abilites while raging is the only part of the build i find dubious.
Sadly, it's extremely explicit. No scorching drunken rays, unfortunately.
Since spells require concentration, and spell-like abilities don't say they don't require concentration, they also require it. So you can't use SLAs in a rage.