Editing Sohei (section)

===Playing a Sohei===
This class can approach combat the same way that more straightforward Fighters do and start swinging around big weapons and hoping for more damage. Yes, you're less accurate due to your BAB progression, but your Flurry of Blows during ''Ki Frenzy'' lets you swing more often. Even outside of Frenzy, your buffing spells only help you in combat so you can quite happily take the second rank of melee combatants and deal with the annoying pests while your primary warrior takes on the [[Big Bad Evil Guy|Boss]].

*The '''Bear Warrior''' prestige class is a nice fit for the Sohei, since it is one of the very few prestige classes that requires ''Ki Frenzy'' as a qualifier for entry. This puts you onto the Good BAB progression and enhances your Frenzy ability by letting you turn into a BEAR while doing it. Imagine a character with a half-decent base attack score, a massive strength modifier (+20 in Dire Bear form!) and '''still''' gets ''Flurry of Blows''? That's right.

*Hilariously, with only a few levels in [[Rogue]] you can qualify for '''Drunken Master''', which gives you a variety of mobility and armour-based bonuses that you can still use IN FULL ARMOUR! Not a bad choice at all, and probably one that had never been considered.

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