Now that I'm back to better internet I'll elaborate a bit more (though still not as much as last time).

First, barbarians and bards can't be monks.  Knowing this, I won't go over the reasons they wouldn't be good to splash monk with anyway.

Melee classes wouldn't splash monk at all.  Paladin and fighter need to stay pure classed because their capstones are just too good to pass up.  Rangers already get evasion, so they would rather have the base attack bonus (along with the same amount of feats) by going fighter.  Obviously monks can't splash monk.

This just leaves clerics, favored souls, wizards, and sorcerers.  Sorcerers lose too much power by splashing ANY class, really (though some are almost worth the tradeoff, monk most certainly is not).  Wizards splash for evasion, but rogue is a much better splash because of both the duplication of intelligence score and the fact that wizards already get bonus feats (and thus are not feat starved).

All that's left are clerics and favored souls.  Anything else that employs a standard two level monk class is gimping themselves in some way because other options are better if the AC bonus is no longer a consideration.  Plus three to saving throws is just not worth losing two BAB over.

As well as 12ftr/6rgr/2mnk or 12pal/6rgr/2mnk.

It's a tradeoff between 12 points of UMD and 2 feats.  The BaB loss is the same for rogue as it is for monk.

Strakeln wrote on Feb 12^th, 2010 at 2:01am:


12/6/2 dun really need feats unless the 12 is pal and not ftr