Tiger Druid Gestalt

[sirpercival]

Chakra binding was what had condused me I wasn't certain when you couldn't/couldn't wear additional armor but your description makes it pretty simple. The other question was about applying a soulmeld to the totemists totem. Does doing this take up the totem slot and a body slot? Or does it just require 2 essentia instead of 1 to power it  up?

It occupies a body slot like any other soulmeld, but since it's only bound to the Totem chakra (which isn't associated with a body slot) and not the other one, it doesn't block magic items.  Powering up a soulmeld costs the same amount of essentia no matter what it's bound to -- and you can invest more than one essentia per soulmeld, usually.

[Llyendar]

ah, that makes sense then. Tie arms to the totem and bind to the totems Chakra so you can still wear bracers. Those cheeky totemists finding a way to somewhat cheat the system.

[snakeman830]

Tigers can wear magic bracers.  They have all of the normal magic item slots.

[Llyendar]

that was a thought that we had. A helm of telepathy for communication purposes and braces for energy damage or ac along with special made armor. it may be a little more costly but GP usually isn't overly short in our campaigns.

[nijineko]

a continuous message effect magic/psionic item would not be too expensive. would allow you to do message once per round. make it a third eye for the flavor of having a gem embedded in the head of the tiger. (i'm avoiding the pun...)

cheaper than helm, and just as effective. if you don't mind speaking in short sentences.

[ImperatorK]

What I want from monk is the unarmed attack progression assuming my DM would rule the tigers natural attacks as unarmed attacks. Otherwise I'm stuck with 1d8 bite and 1d6 claw attacks through out the full progression

Two feats - Improved Unarmed Strike and Superior Unarmed Strike. The second is in ToB.

[Llyendar]

I know of both of those and they work fine, but as pointed out if the DM rules natural attack =/= to unarmed strike (which is correct) it still does me little good. INA can be taken multiple times but has to be applied to different natural attacks each time

[Dkonen]

IUS+ Beast Claws (Dr 355)? Allows you to add your unarmed strike damage to a claw attack.

[Llyendar]

After looking at it I actually think that it works to other way around. Add claw damage to an unarmed strike, but it works either way. Hopefully that is one of the DR feats that my DM will allow

[awaken_D_M_golem]

Perhaps Ardent + Tash Monk.

Tigers can wear magic bracers.  They have all of the "normal" magic item slots.

ME-OW ... Where's My Bracelets !!