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Ascetic Training

You find ways to merge your focused martial training with other combat and adventuring styles, while minimizing the dillution of both.

Prerequisites
Flurry of Blows class feature, at least one level in a base class that is not Monk

Benefit
Choose a single base class besides Monk that you have levels in.  When using the Flurry of Blows ability, add your levels in this class to your Monk level for determining the base attack bonus and additional attacks granted by your Flurry of Blows.  You do not gain any of the other benefits a Monk of this adjusted level would gain, such as additional Ki points or unarmed damage.

Special
This feat may be taken multiple times.  Each time, it is applied to a new base class.

Author's Note: This was inspired by the Ascetic [Insert Class Here] line of feats from Complete Adventurer.  Those feats instead improved the class abilities of the non-Monk class, but that was because in 3.5, Flurry of Blows was not dependant on your Monk level.  Because of the way Monk mechanics work in Pathfinder, it seems to be much simpler, balanced, and condusive to game play to do it this way.  This feat is required for, and expanded upon by, the Ascetic Mastery feat.

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