Well, First off with a d8 of health every level, your not going to be a bag of hp like a fighter or a barb. Never go toe to toe with a monster if you cant help it. Remember you speed, your a mobile fighter, take feats that help with that, Dodge, Mobility, and Spring Attack come to mind. If theres a caster in the group make sure to watch him/her, they are vunurable, and you are faster then anyone make sure to step in the way of people that are after them!(Casters tend to get irritated if you dont help them, personal experience)
Your playin an elf right? Stats that really help you are your dex and wis. These grant you your AC, Bein hit less is always a good thing, now with out magic, and bein butt naked, with 20 in your dex and 18 in wis, your AC is 21. Since you cant carry armor and shields, get bracers of armor, an amulet of natural armor, and rings of protection, getting a bunch of lower +'s is better then a big + from one item. Dont forget you can enchant your robes for armor aswell
Since you have a -2 to con for bein an elf I would say your Con is the next important thing.
Feats.
Take Stunning fist early. Its easy to forget about untill you need to stop someone till you can regroup. Since your playin a Char that stays out of frontline combat, take deflect arrows, then take snatch arrow and throw anything
. Inmroved trip/disarm is up to you. Now a niffty feat for when your goin toe to toe, Weaking Touch. You use a stunning fist use for the day to attack, deal no damage, but drop an enemies strength by 6! So that (insert really strong creature here) that was mean and nasty, just get alot less scary :devil: I think theres a feat that allows you to use ranged attacks to deliver stunning fist attacks as well, I could be wrong. Weapon finesse also is a good one if you have a very high dex. Lets see, ah yes, the most evil feats for a monk. Tactical feats:mischief: Two are very useful. Raptor School, and Sun School. Both are most useful to melee monks.They are found in the Complete Warrior books. Far shot would also help, instead of 10ft range, it just went to 20.
Weapons for dirty up close fighting.
The butterfly sword, the sai, tiger claws, tonfa, three section staff, and the war fan, Bolas(spiked bolas also), bladed gauntlets, spring loaded gauntlets(great for a hit then shoot bit), blowguns are just funny lol. But everything till the warfan can be used with your more favorible number of attacks. But the weapons choices are up to you.
Magic items I'd have to get back to you on that, but that should get you started, sorry its lengthy.
