Monk

Your practice of martial arts gives you mastery of combat styles that use unarmed strikes and monk weapons, which are shortswords and any simple melee weapons that don't have the two-handed or heavy property.

You gain the following benefits while you are unarmed or wielding only monk weapons and you aren't wearing armor.

• You can use Dexterity instead of Strength for the attack and damage rolls of your unarmed strikes and monk weapons. You can also use Dexterity instead of Strength when making Athletics checks to shove.
• You can roll a d6 in place of the normal damage of your unarmed strike or monk weapon. This die changes as you gain monk levels, as shown in the Martial Arts column of the Monk table. Once per turn, if you strike with only free hands, you can reroll the weapon's damage dice and use either total.
• When you use the Attack action with an unarmed strike or a monk weapon on your turn, you can make one unarmed strike as a bonus action. For example, if you take the Attack action and attack with a quarterstaff, you can also make an unarmed strike as a bonus action, assuming you haven't already taken a bonus action this turn.

Certain monasteries use specialized forms of the monk weapons. For example, you might use a club that is two lengths of wood connected by a short chain (called a nunchaku) or a sickle with a shorter, straighter blade (called a kama) .

Prowess

1st-level Monk class feature

You practice within your monastery, in sessions with your private mentor, or your own will has gathered into a martial prowess. Choose from Strength or Dexterity to become your Prowess Ability to reflect your combat styles. You cannot change your Prowess Ability later. Your Prowess ability modifier will relate to other class features.

Unarmored Defense

1st-level Monk class feature

While you are wearing no armor, your AC equals 10 + your Prowess modifier + your Wisdom modifier.

At 9th level, when a creature hits you with an attack, you gain a +2 bonus to AC against all subsequent attacks made by that creature for the rest of the turn.

Ki

2nd-level Monk class feature

Your training allows you to harness the mystic energy of ki. Your access to this energy is represented by a number of ki points. Your monk level determines the number of points you have, as shown in the Ki Points column of the Monk table.

You can spend these points to fuel various ki features. You start knowing four such features: Flurry of Blows, Moonlit Eyes, Patient Defense, and Step of the Wind. You learn more ki features as you gain levels in this class.

When you spend a ki point, it is unavailable until you finish a short or long rest, at the end of which you draw all of your expended ki back into yourself. You must spend at least 30 minutes of the rest meditating to regain your ki points.

Some of your ki features require your target to make a saving throw to resist the feature's effects. The saving throw DC is calculated as follows:

Ki save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier

Flurry of Blows

Immediately after you take the Attack action on your turn, you can spend 1 ki point to make two unarmed strikes as a bonus action.

Moonlit Eyes

You can spend 1 ki point to gain darkvision with a range of 30 feet as a bonus action on your turn. If you have darkvision, the range increases by 30 feet. This benefit lasts until the start of your next turn.

Patient Defense

You can spend 1 ki point to take the Dodge action as a bonus action on your turn.

Step of the Wind

You can spend 1 ki point to take the Disengage or Dash action as a bonus action on your turn, and your jump distance is doubled for the turn.

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Your speed increases by 10 feet while you are not wearing armor. This bonus increases when you reach certain monk levels, as shown in the Monk table.

At 9th level, you gain the ability to move along vertical surfaces and across liquids on your turn without falling during the move.

Deflect Missiles

3rd-level Monk class feature

You can use your reaction to deflect or catch the missile when you are hit by a ranged weapon attack. When you do so, the damage you take from the attack is reduced by 1d10 + your Prowess modifier + your monk level.

If you reduce the damage to 0, you can catch the missile if it is small enough for you to hold in one hand and you have at least one hand free. If you catch a missile in this way, you can spend 1 ki point to make a ranged attack (range 20/60 feet) with the weapon or piece of ammunition you just caught, as part of the same reaction. You make this attack with proficiency, regardless of your weapon proficiencies, and the missile counts as a monk weapon for the attack.

Monastic Tradition

3rd, 6th, 11th, and 17th-level Monk class feature

You commit yourself to a monastic tradition, chosen from the list of available traditions. Your monastic tradition grants you features at 3rd level and again at 6th, 11th, and 17th level.

Ability Score Improvement

4th, 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th-level Monk class feature

You can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1, or you can take a Feat from the Feat List. As normal, you can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Slow Fall

4th-level Monk class feature

You can use your reaction when you fall to reduce any falling damage you take by an amount equal to five times your monk level. If you reduce your falling damage to 0, you can choose to land on your feet.

Extra Attack

5th-level Monk class feature

You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Extra Reaction

5th-level Monk class feature

You can take up to two reactions before the start of your next turn. You can use only one reaction per turn.

Ki-Empowered Strikes

5th-level Monk class feature

Your unarmed strikes count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Disrupting Strike

6th-level Monk class feature

You can interfere with the flow of ki in an opponent's body. When you hit another creature with a melee weapon attack, you can spend 1 ki point to attempt a disrupting strike. The target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or suffer disadvantage on its attack rolls and concentration checks until the end of your next turn.

At 8th level, you can spend an additional ki point to attempt a stunning strike instead. On a failed save, the target is stunned until the end of your next turn.

Evasion

7th-level Monk class feature

Your instinctive agility lets you dodge out of the way of certain area effects, such as a blue dragon's lightning breath or a fireball spell. When you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail.

Stillness of Mind

7th-level Monk class feature

You can use your action to end one effect on yourself that is causing you to be charmed or frightened.

Additionally, as an action, you may spend 2 ki points and touch a creature to end one effect on that creature that is causing you to be charmed or frightened.

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Your mastery of the ki flowing through you makes you immune to disease and poison.

Additionally, as an action, you may spend 2 ki points and touch a willing creature to end a disease or poison currency affecting it.

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