Help choosing a third style for my master of many styles monk.


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As far as style feats go he has Snake style, snake fang, and snapping turtle style. He also has Improved Grapple. The plan was to be kind of a pseudo tank type who would get attacks of opportunity from people missing him from snake style, while having snapping turtle style to help out his AC as well as having a free grapple attempt I could go for in case I use up all my AoO. (Snapping turtle clutch says you get a free grapple attempt at a -2 upon a miss, not a grapple attempt as an AoO.)

So I was thinking either Grabbing style, for obvious reasons, or take Perfect Style Untwisting Iron for acid resistance, DR/adamantine equal to 1/3 my level, and the ability to ignore hardness up to my level. Note that this is a PFS character so I will never get to the point where my fists count as adamantine.


Look at Panther style. Run around the battlefield provoking AOOs and punishing people for taking them. Pairs well with Snake style, but not so much with the later Snapping Turtle feats.

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I use a combo of snake and crane for defense, then switch to snake and boar for offense.

One thing to consider about turtle vs snake is that the total AC bonus for snake can be vamped up to +5 with 3 ranks in acrobatics and a defending weapon, where turtle stays at +1.

The perfect styles do seem like a lot of fun too.


@Thorin001: I originally planned on doing this but felt that I didn't have the dex to make the most of this option.

@Oli Ironbar: I'm curious as to why you are saying snake VS. Snapping turtle style, I've been using both, also snapping turtle style eventually becomes a +2 that also gets added to CMD as well as touch AC. I'm also unaware of how snake style is giving any AC.


Crane is the safest bet as it and snake work well together. Crane also works well with turtle adding a shield bonus so you can stack layers of extra defense. But Panther isn't to bad either.

Edit: if your strength based and plan to pump that further, dragon isn't too bad. Risky but depending on specifics it is very potent.


PUMMELING STYLE - it sucks when all your attacks get nerfed due to DR. Plus, if a single hit crits, all of the hits crit!


Panther style and dragon style(if you have High str) are both good if your defens is good. Crane style if you dont feel your defense is good yet.

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