Monks do become very powerful later on, they cannnot ware armour but their natural ac imporves, they strike as +3 hand weapons,they become immune to normal weapons, at about 16th level they get 50% magic resistence which inceases by about 3% per level to about 74% they are immune to normal weapons at level 20 move supa fast extra Hth attacks.
A fighter dual classes to a mage at level 9 gets full level as a mage (l17)
a ranger dual classed to a cleric at level 7 gets all cleric spells including druid only ones.
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