What is your goal neprostoman?
I've always wanted to roleplay as a githyanki infiltrator, the creche path to the cure and the whole githyanki thing intrigues me the most in the story. I also want to choose a martial class that I've never yet tried, which is monk.
I tried gith fighter patch 4, gith bard patch 9 and gith cleric patch 8 and had no troubles, even though the last two classes are not particularly well-aligned with the race. Even if monk would be considerably harder to pull off, I am still willing to give it a go! I just like the idea!
Maybe try Shadow monk, since that will make you slightly better at running away and hiding whilst your companions do all the fighting. But you would have to live until level 3 first.
I've been thinking about SM as well, I guess between shadow step and misty step and big jumps this monk can have great mobility. But you are right about the AC, rolling initiative poorly can lead to an unwanted death for sure. I guess I could play it ninja style, trying to avoid combat or initiate through surprise rounds. I wonder how they'll code mage armor and unarmored defense interaction, could be a potential AC solution depending on how they implement it.
