Way of the Storm Surge
The storm represents unbridled power. Its winds can tear homes from the ground, its rains can flood cities, and its lightning can set forests aflame. Most monastic schools forbid fighting styles inspired by the storm, considering them too dangerous. However, a loose collection of outcast monks, enticed by the storm's power, have begun developing techniques that channel its winds and lightning. Monks who follow the Way of the Storm Surge are capable of channeling the storm's power into their fists and riding the storm's lightning, and those who master this Way are capable of bending the storm itself to their will.
Way of the Storm Surge Features
| Monk Level | Feature |
|---|---|
| 3 | Thunderpunch |
| 6 | Ride the Winds |
| 11 | Lightning Dash |
| 17 | Avatar of the Storm |
Thunderpunch
When you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you learn how to imitate a lightning strike when you attack - a quick dash followed by explosive power. If you move at least 10 feet in a straight line towards a target before hitting it with a monk weapon or an unarmed strike, the target must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be pushed back 10 feet.
Regardless of whether the target succeeds or fails its save, you can spend 1 ki point to deal thunder damage to the target equal to your Wisdom modifier.
These benefits only apply to the first attack made after moving the 10 feet. To trigger these benefits again, you must move another 10 feet.
Ride the Winds
At 6th level, your familiarity with the ways of the storm allows you to ride the invisible wind currents in the air. When you use your Step of the Wind ability to take the Disengage action, you immediately gain a fly speed equal to half your walking speed that lasts until the end of your current turn. If you already have a flying speed, it instead increases by an amount equal to half your walking speed.
Lightning Dash
At 11th level, you gain the ability to surround yourself with crackling power and move as fast as lightning. As an action, you can surround yourself with electricity and instantly dash to a point you can see that is within 10 feet of your current location. This dash does not use any of your normal movement, ignores difficult terrain, does not provoke opportunity attacks, and allows you to move through enemy spaces. Any creatures other than you in a 5 foot wide line from the point you started to the point you finished must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 2d6 lightning damage on a failure or half as much on a success.
You can spend ki points, up your Monk level divided by four (rounded down), to dash further and deal more damage. For every ki point expended, the maximum distance increases by 10 feet and the damage increases by 2d6.
Avatar of the Storm
At 17th level, you can use an action and spend 5 ki points to bend the storm to your will for one minute. For the duration, storm clouds cover the sky, heavy rain falls from the heavens, and you gain the following benefits:
- The winds of the storm whip around you, under your control and carrying you along their currents. You gain a fly speed equal to your current walking speed.
- Your fists and weapons crackle with the lightning of the storm, arcing into anyone you attack. When you hit a creature with a monk weapon or an unarmed strike, or deal damage with your Lightning Dash feature, you deal additional lightning damage equal to your Wisdom modifier.
Credits
- Way of the Storm Surge by /u/Enraric
- Raiden art by Dexter Soy
