Class Features

As a Monk, you gain the following class features

Martial Arts

Beginning at 1st level, your practice of martial arts gives you mastery of combat styles that use unarmed strikes and monk weapons.

You gain the following benefits while you are unarmed or wielding only monk weapons and you aren't wearing Heavy armor or wielding a shield (knuckle guards excluded):

• You can use Dexterity instead or Strength for the attack and damage rolls of your unarmed strikes and monk weapons.

• You can use your Martial Arts die in place of the normal damage of your unarmed strike or monk weapon.

• Your quick thinking and agility allow you to move and act quickly. You can take a bonus action to take the Dodge action.

• You can perform an unarmed strike as a bonus action.

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). Whatever name you use for a monk weapon, you can use the game statistics provided for the weapon on the Weapons page.

Unarmored Movement

Beginning at 1st level, your speed increases by 10 feet while you are not wearing armor or wielding a shield. 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.

Dedicated Weapon

Also at 2nd level, you train your self to use a variety of weapons as monk weapons, not just simple melee weapons and shortswords. Whenever you finish a short or long rest, you can touch one weapon, focus your ki on it, and then count that weapon as a monk weapon until you use this feature again.

The chosen weapon must meet these criteria:

• You must have proficiency with it.

• It must lack the Heavy and special properties, This criteria can be ignored if Way of the Kensei is the monastic tradition you have chosen.

Fighting Style

At 2nd level, you adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can't take a Fighting Style option more than once, even if you later get to choose again.

• Archery. You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls you make with ranged weapons.

• Blind Fighting. You have blind sight with a range of 10 feet. Within that range, you can effectively see anything that isn't behind total cover, even if you're blinded or in darkness. Moreover, you can see an invisible creature within that range, unless the creature successfully hides from you.

• Druidic Warrior. You learn two cantrips of your choice from the Druid spell list and Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for them. Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can replace one of these cantrips with another cantrip from the Druid spell list.

• Extension. When you wield a Two-handed or Versatile melee weapon that lack the reach property, you treat those weapons as if they do.

• Mariner (UA). As long as you are not wearing Heavy armor or using a shield, you have a swimming speed and a climbing speed equal to your normal speed, and you gain a +1 bonus to armor class.

• Superior Technique. You learn one maneuver of your choice from among those available to the Battle Master archetype. You gain one superiority die, which is a d6 (this die is added to any superiority dice you have). This die is used to fuel your maneuvers. A superiority die is expended when you use it. You regain your expended superiority dice when you finish a short or long rest.

• Thrown Weapon Fighting. You can draw a weapon that has the thrown property as part of the attack you make with the weapon. In addition, you gain a +1 bonus to the attack and damage rolls, when you hit with a ranged attack using a thrown weapon.

• Tunnel Fighter (UA). As a bonus action, you can enter a defensive stance that lasts until the start of your next turn. While in your defensive stance, you can make opportunity attacks without using your reaction, and you can use your reaction to make a melee attack against a creature that moves more than 5 feet while within your reach.

• Two-Weapon Fighting. You can use two-weapon fighting even when the one-handed melee weapons you are wielding aren't light. Moreover, Once per turn you can add an additional attack to the attack action from your off-hand weapon.

Ki

Starting at 2nd level, your training allows you to harness the mystic energy of ki. Your access to this energy is represented by a number of ki points.

Pressure Points

Starting at 5th level, you can interfere with the flow of ki in an opponent's body.

Whenever you hit another creature with a melee weapon attack or unarmed strike, you can spend 1 ki point to impose a negative status effect on them.

The target must succeed on the following saving throws or experience one of these effects:

• Blind Rage. The target must succeed on a Charisma saving throw or suffers disadvantage on all attack rolls against targets other than you until the end of your next turn.

• Confounding Jolt. The target must succeed on a Intelligence saving throw, on a failed save it can’t take reactions until the end of your next turn.

• Staggering Strike. The target must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or suffer a -2 penalty to attack rolls, ability checks and saving throws.

• Stunning Strike. The target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or become stunned until the end of your next turn.

• Tender Flesh. The target must succeed on a Strength saving throw or gain vulnerability to bludgeoning damage until the end of your next turn.

• Terror Touch. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or become frightened of you until the end of your next turn.

• Weakened Body. The target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or experience disadvantage on the next saving throw it makes before the end of your next turn.

At 15th level any time you score a critical hit on an enemy, they suffer one of the following effects (your choice) until the end of your next turn.

Ki-Empowered Strikes

Starting at 6th level, your unarmed strikes count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Stillness of Mind

Starting at 7th level, you become resistant to being charmed or frightened, and you can use your action to end one of these effects on yourself or one of your allies.

Evasion

At 7th level, 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.

Ki Response

At 9th level, your training in the mystic art of Ki has grown; providing you access to additional features.

• Counter-Strike: When a creature misses you with an attack, you can use your reaction and expend 1 ki point to make a melee weapon attack against the creature.

• Puppeteer-Strike: When you hit a creature with an attack, you can expend 1 ki point to maneuver one of your comrades into a more advantageous position. You choose a friendly creature who can see or hear you. That creature can use its reaction to move up to half its speed without provoking opportunity attacks from the target of your attack.

• First-Strike: When a creature you can see moves into your reach, you can use your reaction to expend 1 Ki point and make one attack against the creature, using that weapon or unarmed strike.

Diamond Soul

Beginning at 11th level, your mastery of ki grants you proficiency in all saving throws.

Additionally, whenever you make a saving throw and fail, you can spend 1 ki point to reroll it and take the second result.

Unyielding Body

At 11th level, your mastery of the ki flowing through you makes you immune poison. In addition, you no longer need food or water.

Tongue of the Sun and Moon

Starting at 13th level, you learn to touch the ki of other minds so that you understand all spoken languages, and any creature that can understand a language can understand what you say. Moreover, whenever you make a skill check that requires Charisma, you can add your Wisdom modifier to it.

Empty Mind (Optional)

At 13th level, you have practiced emptying your mind of all thoughts, desires, and assumptions. When your mind is clear, you are free from your ego and are able to act spontaneously and fluidly without emotion and hesitation.

When you hit a creature with an attack roll, you can target it as your Sole Focus for 1 minute or until you lose consciousness.

Every time that you hit the Sole Focus and deal damage to it, including when you target it, you increase that damage by rolling an additional Martial Arts die.

You can use this feature to target a Sole Focus a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.

Ki Reserve

At 15th level, when you roll for initiative, you regain half your total Ki points.

Timeless Body

At 15th level, your ki sustains you so that you suffer none of the frailty of old age, and you can't be aged magically. You can still die of old age, however. Additionally, your Flurry of Blows feature no longer costs Ki.

Empty Body

Beginning at 17th level, you can use your action to spend 4 ki points to become invisible for 1 minute. During that time, you also have resistance to all damage but force damage.

Additionally, you can spend 4 ki points to cast the Astral Projection spell, without needing material components. When you do so, you can't take any other creatures with you.

Perfect Self

At 20th level, you now embody KI, more Ki than Person. Your Wisdom and Constitution scores increase by 4. Your maximum for those scores is now 24.