Cultivator

A Foundation of Ki

Ki is a fundamental force that resides in all living and non-living things. Cultivators have learned ways to gather this power and accumulate it in an internal reservoir that they call their ‘foundation’. Drawing from this Ki reserve, they can perform secret techniques to create supernatural effects.

These techniques may have been passed on to a cultivator by an instructor or they may have learned it from an ancient manual. In rare cases, they might have even created one by themselves. Acquiring their technique is a significant event for a cultivator, as they will most likely be drawn to honing and perfecting it for the rest of their lives.

Pursuit of Perfection

Cultivators strive to grow their foundation to the highest peaks and to break through barriers in their cultivation as quickly as possible. This pursuit drives them towards combat, as the knowledge and experience gained in battle is crucial for their progress. Their single-minded pursuits cause many cultivators to live on their own, eschewing the crowds and comforts of city life. At the same time, cultivators readily join adventuring groups to meet their needs for combat, wealth and materials – all in service of further honing their craft.

Quick Build

You can make a cultivator quickly by following these suggestions. First, make Strength or Dexterity your highest ability score, depending on your choice of weapon, followed by Intelligence. Second, choose the Far Traveler Background.

Hit Points

• Hit Dice: 1d8 per cultivator level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per cultivator level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armor: Light armor, medium armor, shields
• Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons
• Tools: Calligrapher's Supplies

• Saving Throws: Intelligence, Constitution
• Skills: Choose three skills from Acrobatics, Athletics, Deception, History, Intimidation, Sleight of Hand, Stealth, Survival

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) a martial weapon and a Shield or (b) two Martial Weapons
• (a) a Longbow and 20 arrows or (b) two handaxes
• (a) a scholar's pack or (b) an explorer’s pack

Iaijutsu

A master of the Iaijutsu technique spends their training time drawing and sheathing their weapon. These cultivators are able to instantly draw their weapons to deliver punishing attacks or devastating counterattacks. A truly focused Iaijutsu user can become a wall of blades, cutting down any and all attacks.

Stances

Starting at 3rd level, your technique allows you access to knowledge on how to use ki internally for defensive abilities and externally for offensive ones.

You can choose the external or internal stance before you roll for initiative, unless surprised. Otherwise, entering or switching between stances is a bonus action. Unless otherwise noted, you can only use the abilities and benefits granted by each stance while you're in it.

You are unable to use stances while you are incapacitated. If you are incapacitated while in a stance, you may regain either stance as a bonus action.

Internal Stance

• If you have not moved since the beginning of your last turn, then as your turn begins, you may spend 1 ki point to gain blindsight and reach equal to your aura range until you move or are moved.

• You may take the dodge action as a bonus action as long as you have not moved and will not move this turn.

• As you take the attack action, you may spend 1 ki point to gain a bonus to AC and saves equal to half your proficiency bonus rounded up, but you take an equal penalty to your attack rolls. This bonus and penalty lasts until the beginning of your next turn.

---

External Stance

• You can spend 1 ki point to gain advantage on initiative when rolling initiative.

• When in this stance, your AC is decreased by half your proficiency bonus, however, you add your Iai die to your weapon damage rolls.

• If you would attack a creature that has not yet acted in combat you instead add your Iai die twice to the damage rolls.

Iai-goshi

Upon reaching 7th level, you master the first position of of this technique; using a single strike to fell an army. Twice per short rest you may, as an action, make a single melee attack roll that would hit every enemy within your reach.

Tachi-ai

When you reach 11th level, your practice has allowed you to master the next stance of this technique, capitalizing on your enemies mistakes. While in internal stance, enemies provoke opportunity attacks when they would leave any square in your reach.

Additionally, you add your Iai die to your weapon damage rolls for attacks made as reactions. While in external stance you would instead add your Iai damage die twice.

Kennokabe

At 15th level, you have developed a skill that epitomizes the perfect defense and offense. You may spend 1 ki point to gain and take a reaction anytime one would be triggered. You may do this a number of times per long rest equal to your Intelligence modifier.

Additionally, when you are about to take damage from a spell, melee, or ranged attack roll, you may make a weapon attack as a reaction. If you are in external stance, this attack is always made at disadvantage. If you roll higher than the attack roll you may roll your weapon damage adding your Iai dice, and subtract that from the damage you would take. If the damage is negated, you can redirect the attack back to its source, forcing your attacker to target itself with its attack using your attack roll.

Conjured Phoenix

Beginning at 3rd level, you are able to conjure a small, ever burning replica of this techniques namesake. You gain the cantrip Create Bonfire, and add your Intelligence modifier to the damage dealt by it. You add double your Intelligence modifier at level 5 and triple at level 11.

Stances

Starting at 3rd level, your technique allows you access to knowledge on how to use ki internally for defensive abilities and externally for offensive ones.

You can choose the external or internal stance before you roll for initiative, unless surprised. Otherwise, entering or switching between stances is a bonus action. Unless otherwise noted, you can only use the abilities and benefits granted by each stance while you're in it.

You are unable to use stances while you are incapacitated. If you are incapacitated while in a stance, you may regain either stance as a bonus action.

Internal Stance:

• You gain resistance to fire damage as long as you are in this stance.

• You may spend 1 ki point per creature as a reaction to give those creatures within your aura fire resistance as long as they remain within your aura and you remain in this stance.

---

External Stance:

• You take unavoidable fire damage equal to your proficiency bonus every turn whenever you would enter this stance, or if you start or end your turn in this stance. You only take this damage once per turn.

• When you would deal fire damage with a cultivator ability or feature you double the number of dice you roll. E.g. Create bonfire would deal 2d8 at 3rd level instead of 1d8.

Phoenix Fall

Starting at 7th level, you learn to rain a flock of phoenixes on a flock of foes. You may cast Burning Hands using 3 ki points.

Phoenix's Vestment

Upon reaching 11th level, you gain resistance to fire damage. Whenever you are in your internal stance you instead gain immunity to fire damage.

Additionally, your abilities ignore fire resistance, and treat fire immunity as fire resistance.

Winged Wildfire

At 11th level, your control over fire lends you potent and notable aspects of the phoenix. While in your external stance you gain fiery wings and a fly speed of 60 feet.

While in internal stance you may spend 1 ki point to cast Feather Fall a number of times per day equal to your Intelligence modifier.

Phoenix Arisen

Beginning at 15th level, you begin to personify every aspect of the powerful phoenix. When an attack would reduce you to 0 hit points, you may instead be reduced to 1 hit point and 0 ki remaining, and the attacker takes 2d8 + 1d8 fire damage per ki point you had left before you were reduced to 0. You also fall out of your current stance.

Once you use this feature, you cannot use it again until you take a long rest. The damage you deal increases to 2d10 +1d10 per ki point fire damage at level 17. This damage is not affected by the external stance.

Windborne Fury

Starting at 3rd level, your mastery of air grants you a surprising celerity. When two weapon fighting, you may make your extra attack with the offhand weapon as part of the attack action instead of as a bonus action.

Stances

Starting at 3rd level, your technique allows you access to knowledge on how to use ki internally for defensive abilities and externally for offensive ones.

You can choose the external or internal stance before you roll for initiative, unless surprised. Otherwise, entering or switching between stances is a bonus action. Unless otherwise noted, you can only use the abilities and benefits granted by each stance while you're in it.

You are unable to use stances while you are incapacitated. If you are incapacitated while in a stance, you may regain either stance as a bonus action

Internal Stance:

• Your movement and the movement speed of all allies within your aura is increased by 10 ft. This increases to 20ft at level 10. Allies moving through your aura gain half of this bonus upon leaving until the end of the turn.

• You may use Dexterity and Acrobatics for high jumping and long jumping, and you no longer need a running start.

• You may spend 1 ki point to dash as a bonus action. When doing so, your movement does not provoke opportunity attacks.

---

External Stance:

You may spend 1 ki point to activate one of the listed effects as a bonus action:

• Wind Ward All enemies within your aura must make a Strength saving throw. On a failure, they take 1d6 bludgeoning damage and are pushed out of your aura. They take half damage and are not pushed on a success. This damage is increased to 2d6 at level 10.

• Airbind Choose an enemy within your aura. They must make a Strength saving throw. They take 2d6 bludgeoning damage and their movement is reduced to 0 on a failure until the end of their turn. On a success, they take half damage and take no reduction to their movement. This damage is increased to 4d6 at level 10.

• Storm Pulse Choose an enemy within 30 ft. They must make a Strength saving throw or be pushed 20 ft directly away from you.

Enemies not completely in your aura, such as huge sized creatures, have advantage on saves against these effects.

Summer Storm

Beginning at 7th level, you become the wind itself. As a reaction, whenever an enemy ends their turn, you may take an extra turn. During this turn, your movement does not provoke attacks of opportunity, and your movement speed is doubled.

Additonally, a warding breeze guards you, blowing away any mist or gases such as Stinking Cloud or Fog Cloud. At the end of this turn, you take 1 level of exhaustion. Once you have used this feature, you may not do so again until you take a long rest.

Tailwind

At 11th level, you leverage the forces generated by your aura to propel yourself through the skies. You gain a fly and hover speed equal to your movement speed when in internal stance.

Living Winds

Upon reaching 15th level, you may instantly call upon the destructive power of a storm. You may spend 5 ki points to cast Whirlwind. You may spend an additional 2 ki points to become immune to the effects of the spell. You may use this ability once per long rest.

Stances

Starting at 3rd level, your technique allows you access to knowledge on how to use ki internally for defensive abilities and externally for offensive ones.

You can choose the external or internal stance before you roll for initiative, unless surprised. Otherwise, entering or switching between stances is a bonus action. Unless otherwise noted, you can only use the abilities and benefits granted by each stance while you're in it.

You are unable to use stances while you are incapacitated. If you are incapacitated while in a stance, you may regain either stance as a bonus action

Internal Stance

• All attacks made by creatures other than you from within your aura do less damage equal to your proficiency bonus.

External Stance

• All attacks made by creatures other than you from within your aura do additional damage of the same type equal to your proficiency bonus.

Auric Finesse

Beginning at 3rd level, your aura usage has become fine tuned enough to last beyond exhaustion. You may keep your aura going while at 0 ki points for a number of rounds per day equal to your proficiency bonus x 3. These rounds do not need to be consecutive, however, it takes a bonus action to dismiss your aura.

As a bonus action, you may spend 1 ki point per ally to exclude them from your external or internal stance ability until the end of their next turn.

Magnetic Terrain

Also at 3rd level, you learn to crash your aura against your foes mental defenses, stopping them in their tracks. You may spend 1 ki point as a bonus action to alter your aura with the following effects until the end of your next turn:

• When in external stance, all creatures attempting to enter your aura must succeed on an Intelligence saving throw, or be unable to enter until the end of your next turn.

• When in internal stance, all creatures attempting to exit your aura must succeed on an Intelligence saving throw, or be unable to exit until the end of your next turn.

This feature has no effect while you are moving.

Aura Shriek

At 7th level, you are able to send a discordant chorus of thought and emotion through yourself and out your aura. As an action, you may spend 2 ki points to cause your aura to attack all creatures inside it. You cast Tasha's Mind Whip on everyone in your aura, including yourself. You automatically pass this save.

Any creature damaged by this ability that is concentrating on a spell makes their concentration check with disadvantage. On a successful save, creatures take half damage and gain no disadvantage. The damage of this spell increases to 4d6 at 12th level and 5d6 at 17th.

Finger on the Scales

Starting at 11th level, your control over your aura and anything in it begins to peak. Allies have advantage on Intelligence saving throws while in your aura.

While in internal stance, you may spend 1 ki point per ally in your aura, as a reaction, to give them advantage on any saving throw imposed by a spell.

While you are in external stance, attacks cannot be made at disadvantage within your aura.

Dominion

Upon reaching 15th level, you have gained complete control over the reality inside your aura. You take less damage from all sources equal to your proficiency bonus while you are not incapacitated. Furthermore, when you hit with a weapon attack, you do additional weapon damage equal to your proficiency bonus.

Additionally, you can activate your Aura Mastery ability as a bonus action a number of times per day equal to your Intelligence modifier.

Ki Shields

Upon reaching 3rd level, you begin to steer your cultivation towards the arts of shield usage and creation. Shields are now a d6 light versatile (d8) weapon for you. Magic shields that have bonuses to AC also apply the same bonuses to any attack and damage rolls you make with those shields.

Furthermore, you gain the ability to cast spells, using your shield as a magical foci. You now know the cantrips Blade Ward and True Strike, and you may target any number of creatures within your aura whenever you cast them.

Lastly, you may spend 1 ki point and cast the 1st level spells from the list below using Intelligence as your spellcasting modifier. You may cast 2nd level spells from the list below using 2 ki points at 9th level, 3rd level spells using 3 ki points at 13th level, and 4th level spells using 4 ki points at 19th level. You may cast any spell from the list below as a bonus action.

When you gain the ability to cast higher level spells, you may spend 1 ki point per spell level to cast lower level spells at your highest level.

Shield Legerdemain

Beginning at 3rd level, you master the ability to harden sections of your aura, granting protection to yourself or those around you. You may cast Shield as a reaction when an ally within your aura is about to be hit by an attack. When you cast the spell in such a way, you may target the ally with the spell.

Force Shields

At 7th level, your mastery has extended to physical shields as well as metaphysical. You may make a thrown weapon attack with a shield, with a range of 30/90 using Strength for attack and damage rolls. You do not benefit from the AC bonuses on the shield while it is not on your person, and the shield returns to your hand at the end of your turn.

Additionally, you may apply the bonuses to AC granted by a single shield on your person to your saves.

Last Bastion

Upon reaching 11th level, saving your allies has become your prerogative. You may use a bonus action to brace yourself. Until the end of your next turn, your movement speed becomes 0, you act as three-quarters cover for creatures medium size or smaller in a 15 foot cone behind you, and you gain a +2 to your AC and saving throws.

Destructive Shielding

Starting at 15th level, your shield usage has reached a deadly efficiency. When you hit an enemy with an attack using a shield, you may use up to 3 ki points to do an extra 1d10 damage, plus 1d10 per ki point used after the 1st. Additionally, when you land a critical hit on an enemy, you may do an extra attack as part of that attack action.

Stances

Starting at 3rd level, your technique allows you access to knowledge on how to use ki internally for defensive abilities and externally for offensive ones.

You can choose the external or internal stance before you roll for initiative, unless surprised. Otherwise, entering or switching between stances is a bonus action. Unless otherwise noted, you can only use the abilities and benefits granted by each stance while you're in it.

You are unable to use stances while you are incapacitated. If you are incapacitated while in a stance, you may regain either stance as a bonus action

Internal Stance

• You gain the ability to cast absorb elements while in this stance. You may do so once per short rest. You gain a second use at level 10.

• When you would take fire or cold damage from a spell, attack, or ability, you may, as a reaction, reduce this damage by 1d10 + Intelligence modifier. When you do so, you regain a number of ki points equal to half your proficiency bonus rounded down. If you reduce the damage taken to 0, you regain 1 extra ki point.

• All allies within your aura gain advantage on saves from spells dealing fire or cold damage.

---

External Stance

You lose 1 ki point whenever you begin or end a turn in this stance (max 1 per turn). You may end this stance at the beginning of your turn before spending a ki point.

---

While in this stance:

• You may use your Intelligence modifier for unarmed attack rolls.

• You add your Intelligence modifier as additional damage for unarmed attack rolls.

• Your attacks within your aura ignore half and three-quarters cover.

• The range of your attacks increase to the range of your aura.

• Your attacks may use fire or cold damage instead of their original damage type.

At 6th level, all your weapon attacks while in this stance do an extra 1d4 fire or cold damage. This increases to 1d6 at 12th level.

Duality

Upon reaching 7th level, you grow your knowledge of the whole of life's many aspects, allowing you to harness the world's numerous dualities. All stance abilities referring to fire and cold damage may now be changed to poison and acid, or lightning and thunder damage. At 10th level, all stance abilities referring to fire and cold damage may now also be changed to radiant and necrotic, or psychic and force damage.

You can only choose one set at a time and you may choose a different set after a short or long rest.

Elemental Hurricane

At 7th level, you may become one with the elements. Once per long rest, as a bonus action, you may benefit from the effects of both stances without losing ki points for one minute. However, you gain vulnerability to your chosen elements for the duration.

Balance in Nature

Beginning at 11th level, you are able to enact your will upon elemental forces around you. You can cast Absorb Elements when an ally would take elemental damage. When you cast the spell in this way, the effects of absorb elements apply to all creatures within your aura range.

Furthermore, you may make an extra unarmed attack as a bonus action, as long as you have spent a minimum of 1 ki point this turn.

Wuji

Starting at 15th level, you have reached the pinnacle of balance and control. While in external stance, your attacks ignore your chosen elements damage resistances, and you treat those same immunities as resistances.

While in internal stance, as a reaction, if a saving throw would have an ally take half damage on a pass, you may spend 1 ki point per ally in your aura to instead have them take no damage on a success. You may use this ability a number of times per day equal to your Intelligence modifier.

9th level Constructs

Drill Tip

This arrow can be shot through stone or wood no thicker than 5 feet. Additionally, when shot directly at a creature, this arrow can pierce a number of added targets equal to your Intelligence modifier. Each additional target must be directly behind the first. When shot this way, each enemy hit takes an additional 1d6 damage.

Aura Burst

If an enemy hit by this arrow is in your aura they take an additional 3d6 weapon damage.

17th level Constructs

Aura Suspension

When you fire this shot you may instead have it hang within your aura. At the beginning of each of your turns this arrow will automatically fire at the closest enemy. Each shot takes the same amount of ki and has the same constructs as the first shot. You may end this ability as a bonus action.

Named Arrow

You may take a penalty to your attack roll to target specific body parts with this shot.

• Torso -2 penalty to push the target back 10 feet.
• Legs -3 penalty to reduce targets movement speed to 0 until the end of their next turn. A successful Dexterity save reduces this to half their movement speed.
• Arms -4 penalty to give the target disadvantage on all attacks for 1 minute. They make a Constitution save at the end of each turn to end this effect.
• Head -5 penalty and a Constitution save to stun the target for 2 turns. The target may make another Constitution save at the end of each turn to end this effect.

Armory

When you choose this technique at 3rd level, you gain a soul space with which to house your chosen weapons, and the ability to substitute them in battle instantly. You may choose up to 3 magical or non-magical weapons. You become attuned to these weapons over a long rest, but they don't count against your total three attunement slots, magical or otherwise.

You can summon a weapon by taking either stance. Ending or switching stances makes the current weapon disappear and conjures the next if you take another stance. Your conjured weapons disappear if they are more than 5 feet away from you for 1 minute or more. They also disappear if you dismiss these weapons (no action required), or if you die.

You can attune to magic and non magical weapons by meditating while you hold the weapon. You must meditate this way over the course of a long rest. You can then dismiss the weapon, shunting it into a space formed in your core, and it appears whenever you take your stance thereafter. The weapons appear at your feet if you die, meditate over a different weapon that would replace one, or if you use a long rest to end the attunment. The weapon appears at your feet if it is in your space when the bond breaks.

Additionally, you can use your Intelligence modifier for attack and damage rolls with melded weapons. However, you attack with disadvantage for any unattuned weapons.

Weapon Forms

Also at 3rd level, your weapon mastery has granted you additional abilities with any Armory weapons. When you would take a stance with one of your attuned weapons you gain additional abilities called Forms. You may choose a Form to take, dependent on the weapon properties, whenever you would swap to, from, or attack with a weapon. You can only use one Form at a time, even if the weapon you use would have multiple properties.

The weapon Forms are detailed at the end of this technique.

Stances

Starting at 3rd level, your technique allows you access to knowledge on how to use ki internally for defensive abilities and externally for offensive ones.

You can choose the external or internal stance before you roll for initiative, unless surprised. Otherwise, entering or switching between stances is a bonus action. Unless otherwise noted, you can only use the abilities and benefits granted by each stance while you're in it.

You are unable to use stances while you are incapacitated. If you are incapacitated while in a stance, you may regain either stance as a bonus action

Internal Stance

• As you attack, you may swap to any attuned weapon and use its weak Form.
• You may spend 1 ki point as a bonus action to add an additional 1d4 weapon damage to your attacks for each time you've swapped your weapon this turn.

---

External Stance

• You may use the weak and strong properties of your chosen Form for Armory weapons while in this stance.

Style Master

Upon reaching 7th level, you master appropriate styles for your melded weapons. You choose two additional fighting styles. Whenever you would summon or swap a weapon, you may also swap fighting styles.

Additionally, Whenever you reach a level in this class that grants the Ability Score Improvement feature, you can replace a fighting style you know with another fighting style available.

Barrage

Beginning at 11th level, your strikes have begun speeding up, becoming swifter the more you attack. You may spend 4 ki points to attack as a bonus action. This cost is reduced by 1 ki for each time you've attacked and/or swapped weapons this turn to a minimum of 1 ki point.

Master of Many Forms

At 15th level, your mastery of the Forms has become less intent and more instinct. If a weapon you would use has multiple properties, you may use every Form it would have.

Spirit Animals

Starting at 3rd level when you choose this subclass, you gain two spiritual companions. These spirits can be either existing beasts, or ones summoned to you through a special ritual during a long rest, but upon becoming your companions, gain a magical bond with you that grants them special powers. Your spirits can have the general appearance of any beast, but their stats are determined by the stat block below and the traits selected.

Your spirits share the same health pool, but count as different targets in regards to single target and area effects.

While in or out of a single stance only one spirit is summoned. Switching spirits is done whenever you would switch stances. You roll initiative for your spirits, following the normal rules stated below.

You can add two of the following traits to the stat block, you may pick a separate two traits for each spirit:

Amphibious

Your Companion gains a swimming speed equal to its movement speed, and the ability to breathe underwater.

Blindsight

Your Companion gains a Blindsight of 10 feet.

Tunneling

Your Companion gains a burrowing speed equal to half its movement speed. It can choose to leave a tunnel behind when it burrows or not.

Flying: Prerequisite: selected beasts appearance must have have wings.

Your Companion's size is Small, and it gains a flying speed equal to its movement speed.

Keen Senses:

Your companions can add twice their proficiency in the Perception skill.

Pack Tactics:

Your Companions have advantage on an Attack roll against a creature if at least one of your Companion's allies is within 5 feet of the creature and the ally isn't Incapacitated.

Quick

Your companions are particularly swift, their movement speed becomes 40 feet.

Sneaky

Your companions gain proficiency in the Stealth and Deception skills.

Simian Nature

Your companions gain a climbing speed equal to their movement speed, proficiency with throwing rocks (ranged weapon, 1d4 bludgeoning damage, thrown(20/60), and the ability to hold small items.

Spiderclimb

Your companions can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make ability checks, and ignores movement restrictions caused by webbing.

Venomous:

Your beasts' attacks deal an additional 1d4 poison damage.

Internal Stance

• You can use your reaction to have your spirit use the Help action.

• When you are the target of an attack you may, as a reaction, spend 1 ki point to swap places with your spirit. The attack is made against the spirit in your place.

• As long as your is in your aura you add +1 to both your ACs. This increases to +2 at 10th level.

External Stance

• Once per round, if your spirit is within 10 feet of someone who successfully attacks a creature adjacent to the spirit, your companion can use their reaction to attack that same enemy.

• As an action, you may have your spirit pounce an enemy. It can move up to twice its movement speed (minimum 10 feet) and make one attack at advantage. The next attack made on your spirit has advantage.

• Whenever your spirit makes a successful attack with advantage, the target of the attack must make a Strength saving throw DC 8 + Proficiency Bonus or be knocked prone.

A Pack as One

At 15th level, your unity has reached new spiritual heights. As a bonus action, you may spend 5 ki points to fuse your two spirits with yourself. You gain a number of temporary hit points equal to half your spirits current hit points and your AC increases by 2. Your attacks deal an additional 1d6 damage, and you gain up to any two traits from your spirits. This ability lasts for one minute or until your temporary hit points are depleted.

If you revert as a result of dropping to 0 temporary hit points remaining, any excess damage carries over to your normal form and you are separated from your spirits who begin making death saves on their next turn.

While this ability is active you may also activate your Infused Spirits ability targeting yourself, but no stance abilities can be used in this form passive or otherwise.

Lightning Strikes

At 3rd level when you take this subclass, you leverage the forces generated from your lightning fast strikes to fuel your abilities. When you successfully hit an enemy, and your previous attack was successful, you gain a spark. You can have a maximum number of sparks equal to your proficiency bonus, losing all sparks gained beyond this number, and you lose all sparks when you spend a minute without gaining or losing any sparks.

When an ability requires you to spend ki points, you may instead spend a spark instead of 1 ki point. If an ability’s ki cost exceeds the number of sparks, you must pay the remaining value in ki.

Additionally, you may use your ki points or sparks for the following abilities:

• Once per turn, you may spend 2 ki points and 10 feet of your movement to teleport 10 feet without using an action.

• You may spend 2 ki points to increase your attack range by 5 feet until the end of your next turn, to a maximum of 10 feet.

Stances

Starting at 3rd level, your technique allows you access to knowledge on how to use ki internally for defensive abilities and externally for offensive ones.

You can choose the external or internal stance before you roll for initiative, unless surprised. Otherwise, entering or switching between stances is a bonus action. Unless otherwise noted, you can only use the abilities and benefits granted by each stance while you're in it.

You are unable to use stances while you are incapacitated. If you are incapacitated while in a stance, you may regain either stance as a bonus action.

---

Internal Stance

• Once per turn, as you make an attack roll, you may instead roll twice and make two attacks. Each attack does half damage rounded down.
• When you make an attack with disadvantage, you may spend 2 ki points to ignore the disadvantage.
• Whenever you would gain a spark, you may deal additional lightning damage equal to your proficiency bonus to the attacked enemy.

---

External Stance

• When you take the attack action, you may instead spend a bonus action and 3 ki points to blast lightning out of your hands. All creatures in a 20 foot cone, 10 foot sphere centered on yourself or 40 foot line (player’s choice) originating from your position must make a Dexterity saving throw. They take 4d8 lightning damage on a fail, or half that on a success. This damage increases by 1d8 at 7th, 11th and 15th level.

Conductive

Beginning at 7th level, your body has become extremely efficient at sending lightning through it. While in internal stance, when you land a consecutive hit and have already gained sparks this turn, you gain 2 sparks instead of one.

Additionally, when you gain a spark, you may immediately spend it to deal 1 lightning damage, heal 1 hit point, and gain an extra 5 feet of movement until the start of your next turn. This movement gain can stack.

Fulminant

Upon reaching 11th level, your teleportations begin discharging electricity, damaging nearby foes. While in external stance you may attack as a bonus action, and when you spend ki or sparks to teleport, you may deal 2d4 lightning damage as part of that teleport to enemies within 10 feet of your destination.

Return Stroke

At 15th level, as you spill with electrified energy, you finally begin to strike like lightning. When you start your turn in external stance, with the maximum number of sparks, you may spend 2 sparks to make additional attacks as part of the attack action. You may do this repeatedly within the same turn, as long as you have more than 0 sparks.