Monk Martial Art

[RingofThorns]

I know this is a second thread asking for help on something that I have started, but a friend of mine was wanting to run a short campaign based around something like old kung fu and wire fu movies, to that end I was wanting to make a monk. However I noticed that there are particular weapon styles a person can take as a feat and I wondered if there might be unarmed weapon styles a monk could learn and if so in what book(s) could I find them in? Thank you all for your help.

[Yanisa]

Unearthed Arcana has Monk Variant: Fighting Styles (http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/variantCharacterClasses.htm#monkVariantFightingSty les). (Which is on the SRD, for free.) I don't have any experience with it and it doesn't seem to get talked about often. Basically they are just the normal feats, but slotted together to fit a theme. You also get a minor skill bonus at level 1 and a bonus at level 6 in the theme's style.

There is also a Pathfinder version (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/style-feats), which does get a lot of talk, but that Pathfinder (Ultimate Combat to be precise). Unlike the UA one, this one does add new abilities, tricks and things, but they are still feats.

[Alex12]

There's also unarmed swordsage, which is basically taking the swordsage, removing armor proficiencies, and giving them the monk's unarmed strike.

[Yanisa]

There's also unarmed swordsage, which is basically taking the swordsage, removing armor proficiencies, and giving them the monk's unarmed strike.

While I normally dislike this kind of advice you make a good set up for an idea. The various disciplines are fighting styles and with minor name changing you can make them sound very Kong-Fu like. Some of them are already like that (Tiger Claw, Stone Dragon, Shadow Hand, Setting sun... should I just list all of them?). If you like to go the more homebrewish it can be a cool idea.

[Sith_Happens]

While I normally dislike this kind of advice you make a good set up for an idea. The various disciplines are fighting styles and with minor name changing you can make them sound very Kong-Fu like. Some of them are already like that (Tiger Claw, Stone Dragon, Shadow Hand, Setting sun... should I just list all of them?). If you like to go the more homebrewish it can be a cool idea.

Was coming in to say this. Even setting aside power concerns, this is for a campaign based on martial arts movies and Tome of Battle is basically D&D martial arts.

[Sir Chuckles]

While I normally dislike this kind of advice you make a good set up for an idea. The various disciplines are fighting styles and with minor name changing you can make them sound very Kong-Fu like. Some of them are already like that (Tiger Claw, Stone Dragon, Shadow Hand, Setting sun... should I just list all of them?). If you like to go the more homebrewish it can be a cool idea.

Five-Shadow Creeping Ice Enervating Strike.

Do we really need them to be more Kung-Fu?

[geekintheground]

Five-Shadow Creeping Ice Enervating Strike.

Do we really need them to be more Kung-Fu?

even hak foo from jackie chan adventures things these moves have weird names!