Sacred Fist & Monk's Monastic Legacy

[Sudiken]

What are the rules when combining these? Sacred Fist is a non-monk class that receives monk-like unarmed damage increases. Would those increases stack with Monastic Legacy, beings Sacred Fist isn't part of the monk class? It would seem obvious but I would like others opinions. Also how would a monk robe affect the unarmed damage when added to the mix. Example being 3monk/17 sacred fist.

[derpdidruid]

sorry bub its in the pre-req. still mind is needed and warpreist sacred fists dont get it.

[Sudiken]

Well that's why there is a 3 level dip into monk for still mind :)

[Claxon]

I just wrote a long post that got eaten by the vengeful internet gods.

The summation of which is basically, it doesn't work and don't expect it to. Both sacred fist and monk get full damage progression, you would treat both class levels as though they were monk levels.

You wont get your sacred fist levels to pull double duty and upgrade your damage dice further.

[Protoman]

2 levels ranger or slayer worshipping Irori can score Monastic Legacy thanks to Combat Style (Faithful = Irori) [Inner Sea Combat pg 11].

Sacred fist uses its levels as monk to calculate unarmed damage so I would argue it doesn't work with Monastic Legacy since for damage purposes, it's basically monk levels. As argued in this thread.

However, RAW it can be argued that sacred fist still isn't monk, as argued in this thread.

In short: It's contested and no official answer yet. Also, ranger combat style is awesome to skip pre-reqs.

[Imbicatus]

You can also skip the still mind pre-reqs on Monastic Legacy with Ascetic Strike, the final feat in the new Ascetic Style chain in Weapon Master's Handbook. Very feat intensive, but it's worth it.

[Protoman]

Oh damn I'm so excited for that book to be released to non-subscribers!