please can someone go over all the rules bout monk die step

[hockeyrama]

I put on my equilibrium robes on my monk hybrid and it was showing his base damage as 2d6 and yet i thought it shoudl be lower. Anyway I want to try to understand the way this works and how to cap damage on a monk with 12 levels at cap. Please if anyone knows what die steps stack i would love to know.

[Mrmorphling]

Unarmed dmg scales this way over monk lvls:
1-3 1d6
4-7 1d8
8-11 1d10
12-15 2d6
16-19 2d8
20 2d10
next step is 2d12, achievable by wearing an item that increse your die of one step.

So 12 lvls of monk = 2d6 plus garment = 2d8

[Pank]

I would add that AFAIK die step increasing effects form items do not stack (e.g.: Garnments of Equilibrium and Jidz Tet'ka), only PL Monk does stack with others effects..