Way of the Monsoon
Monks who walk Way of the Monsoon understand the lie of separation, knowing that directing the ki energy within themselves is no different than directing the energy without. Unified with the swirling powers of weather, these monks move like a curious breeze and crash like furious lightning.
These monks often found their monasteries in centers of great atmospheric power, such as mountains where storms gather or floating on the sea to greet new hurricanes.
Maelstrom's Center
3rd-level Way of the Monsoon feature
You are the eye of the storm, surrounded by whipping winds and crackling electricity. You learn the gust cantrip if you don't already know it. In addition, you can choose to gather the energy of a storm about you at the start of your turn. If you do so, you can add one of the following effects to each of your melee weapon attacks until the start of your next turn. Each effect cannot be used more than once per turn, and you must decide which effect to use before making the attack roll:
Thunder. On a hit, the target must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or be knocked prone as crash of thunder reverberates from your strike.
Lightning. On a hit, the target takes extra lightning damage equal to one roll of your martial arts die as bolts of power sear their skin.
Wind. On a hit, the target must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be moved up to 10 feet in a horizontal direction of your choice as the air around them moves with your strike.
Rain. Your reach is 10 feet greater than normal as moisture from the air gathers to deliver the blow.
Mist. You can move up to 5 feet without provoking opportunity attacks immediately after making the attack, as mist disguises your steps.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
While you have no uses available, you can spend 1 ki point to use this feature again.
Cloud Rider
6th-level Way of the Monsoon feature
You can choose to weigh as much as a leaf on the wind, carried in beautiful spirals traced across the sky atop a cloud that forms beneath your feet. When you use your Step of the Wind while Maelstrom's Center is active, you gain a flying speed equal to your walking speed until the start of your next turn. If you are above the ground at the start of your next turn with nothing holding you aloft, you fall, unless you activate Maelstrom's Center and use your Step of the Wind again.
Sky's Performance
11th-level Way of the Monsoon feature
With the whispers of wind, and the tappings of rain, the clamorous shouts and violent thrashings of thunder and lightning are at once unexpected and completely inevitable. Just as your ki can draw a single drop of water from the air, so too can it bring out a mighty show of wrath. As an action, you can create one of the following effects:
Dance of Lightning. Ribbons of searing light spin and leap across the battlefield. Choose one creature you can see within 90 feet, as well as up to three additional creatures within 30 feet of the first target. Each creature must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes lightning damage equal to five rolls of your Martial Arts die, or half as much damage on a successful save. When you use this ability, you can choose to spend up to 3 ki points to increase the damage by one roll of your Martial Arts die for each ki point spent this way.
Song of Thunder. Waves of echoing noise resound from your position, with a boom that is audible from 300 feet away. Each creature within 15 feet of you must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes thunder damage equal to two rolls of your Martial Arts die and is stunned until the end of your next turn. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage and is not stunned. When you use this ability, you can choose to spend up to 3 ki points to increase the radius of this effect by 5 feet for each ki point spent this way.
Once you use this action, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest, unless you expend 3 ki points to use it again.
Sage of the Four Winds
17th-level Way of the Monsoon feature
The movements of the clouds are synchronized with your breath. As an action, you can cast the control weather spell, without expending spell slots or material components. Once you do so, you cannot cast this spell this way again until you finish a long rest.
Additionally, when you apply an effect from Maelstrom's Center to an attack, you can also apply a second effect of a different type to that attack, and there is no longer a limit to how many times an effect can be used on each turn.
Way of the Monsoon v1.2 for D&D 5e
Created by: u/NotTheDreadPirate Artist Credit: Heonhwa Choe - Siani, Eye of the Storm