[Bozos of Bones]

Robes are allowed, monk's do apsolutly nothing with two-weapon and ambidex feats, take cleave instead. They do fight better when not wearing armor and not using weapons. They get extra abilities with levels, gain speed, gain poison resistance, and then gain absolute resistance to non-magical weapons. All this is negated when wearing armor.
I really love monks. Have a monk with high wis and strenght(dex doesn't apply to AC with monks) and bash on.