BloodyMagpie

Yeah, I only remembered Shield and Pike Style because I happened to see it while looking up something else. There IS a compiled list of all Dragon Magazine feats and flaws that some awesome person put together here: .

As I just mentioned, Pike and Shield style. One feat, get your inner Greek hoplite on.

Rudolf already weighed in in the post above, so yeah, they're fine with it as far as I know.

There is a Dragon Magazine feat in Dragon 338, , that lets you wield a 2H reach weapon and a light shield together.

You can't use the natural weapons for the Flurry of Blows yes, but Flurry of Blows is part of making a Full Attack. So, I Full Attack, I get my normal iterative attacks (including any bonus attacks from Haste, Snap Kick, etc.) + Flurry of Blows attack(s) (which causes all attacks made in the round to take the Flurry penalty) + my natural weapon attacks (with their normal penalty for attacking with secondary weapons).

Sweet, thanks.

I have a question regarding the Monk ACF Prayerful Meditation from Complete Champion (pg. 48). It provides its bonus against creatures who oppose your alignment. So either Good/Evil depending on your moral alignment and Chaotic creatures (on the assumption your Monk is Lawful like they usually are). I'm using the Chaos Monk variant from Dragon, so would this change to a bonus against Lawful creatures instead?

Blockade is from Complete Scoundrel. I think his idea is to cast it (a Swift Action) directly behind an enemy and then use the Dungeon Crashing ACF to smash them into it.

But then I don't get my natural weapons immediately and as my future level 6 and 9 feats are already locked in on specific other feats, no chance to grab Multiattack. Heck with it, no second template. Alright, off to revise my sheet.

So, I only just noticed the rule about using Inevitability's Rules Adjustment for monsters and templates. That drops my Half-Dragon LA down to +2, so I'm thinking of adding a second template. Ideally, I'd add Half-Celestial. But, annoyingly, Half-Celestial doesn't seem to have classed out racial template levels like Half-Dragon and Half-Fiend do. Closest thing I found was on D&D Wiki, but pretty sure that's homebrew. Can I get any input on this?

Still Mind is an untyped bonus, so it stacks with any other bonuses. Flurry of Blows and TWF combined should probably (subject to DM approval) grant a third attack at highest BAB, but the penalties from both would also stack, so you'd have -4 to all attacks made that round.

More just idle brainstorming at this point. My intended progression is Monk1/Barbarian1/Monk3/Fist of Forest3/Monk TBD levels on one side, I'm still figuring out what to do on the other side after I run out of LA levels and picking up a few more Barbarian levels is one idea.

Can a class be advanced on both sides of the gestalt (not at the same time obviously), or is it limited to the side you first leveled in it? Example: I take Barbarian1 at level two on Side A, and a few levels later I want to take Barbarian2 on Side B.

Yes. So Unarmed Strikes would be +6 and the natural weapons +4 (using my BAB +2 and Str bonus +6) in the full attack with Flailing Blows (Chaos Monk's modified version of Flurry of Blows) then.

Aggressive trait gives -1 AC. Shouldn't Multiattack reduce the bite penalty to -2? On a full attack, shouldn't you get both? Yeah, working on equipment. Sheet is not done yet obviously Edit: I just noticed the rule in monster characters about using Inevitability's Reassigned LA. According to that, Half-Dragon is now only a +2 LA?