Monk (Revised)

Hit Points

Hit Dice: 1d8 per monk level

Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier

Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per monk level after 1st

Proficiencies

Armor: None

Weapons: Simple weapons, shortswords

Tools: Choose one type of artisan’s tools or one musical instrument

Saving Throws: Strength, Dexterity

Skills: Choose two from Acrobatics, Athletics, History, Insight, Religion, and Stealth

Flurry of Blows

Starting at 2nd level, when you take the Attack action on your turn, you can spend 1 Ki point to make an additional attack as part of the action.

Flurry of Blows can only be used to make attacks using your Martial Arts feature.

This ability adds to the Extra Attack feature and the number of additional strikes increases at higher levels, increasing to two when you reach 11th level in this class and three when you reach 20th level in this class.

Step of the Wind

Starting at 2nd level, you can take the Disengage or Dash action as a bonus action on your turn. If you choose to spend a Ki point when activating this ability, you can take both the Dash and Dodge actions, and your jump distance is doubled for the turn. If you are wearing Medium or Heavy armour, the Ki point cost of this ability is increased by 1.

Ki - Empowered Strikes

Attacks with your Martial Arts count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Patient Defense

You can take the Dodge action as a bonus action on your turn.

Way of the Open Hand

Monks of the Way of the Open Hand are the ultimate masters of unarmed martial arts combat. They learn techniques to push and trip their opponents, manipulate Ki to heal damage to their bodies, and practice advanced meditation that can protect them from harm.

Mastery of Meridians

When you choose this subclass at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with medicine checks as long as you are touching the target. If you already have proficiency, you gain expertise instead.

Open Hand Technique

Starting when you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you can manipulate your enemy’s Ki when you harness your own. Whenever you make an unarmed strike with your martial arts, you can spend 1 Ki point to impose one of the following effects on the target:

• It must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or be knocked prone.
• It must make a Strength saving throw. If it fails, you can push it up to 15 feet away from you.
• It must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or have disadvantage on its attacks against you until the end of your next turn.
• It must succeeds on a Charisma saving throw or be Frightened of you until the end of its next turn.
• It can’t take reactions until the end of your next turn.
• Make one stunning strike without spending a Ki point.

When you activate flurry of blows you can add the effect to one attack without spending a Ki point.

Enhanced Strikes

Starting at 6th level, you gain the ability to augment your unarmed strikes further with your Ki. As a bonus action, you can expend Ki points to grant your unarmed strikes a bonus to attack and damage rolls when you attack. The bonus is equal to the number of Ki points spent. This bonus lasts for 1 minute or until you use this feature again. The number of Ki points you can spend on this ability is one, increasing to two at 11th level and three at 17th level.

Wholeness of Body

At 6th level, you gain the ability to heal yourself. As an action, you can spend 2 Ki points to regain hit points equal to two rolls of your martial arts die plus your proficiency modifier.

Once per day, you may spend four Ki points to regain hit points equal to three times your monk level.

Ki Disruption

At 11th Level, you have gained the ability to disrupt the flow of Ki in your enemies' bodies. When you inflict an effect from your Open Hand Technique, you can spend 2 Ki points to impose disadvantage on the saving throw.

Tranquility

Beginning at 11th level, you can enter a special meditation that surrounds you with an aura of peace. At the end of a long rest, you gain the effect of a sanctuary spell that lasts until the start of your next long rest (the spell can end early as normal). The saving throw DC for the spell equals 8 + your Wisdom modifier + your proficiency bonus.

You can extend this effect to another willing creature for one hour by spending 2 Ki points and one minute to infuse them with your peaceful aura.

Quivering Palm

At 17th level, you gain the ability to set up lethal vibrations in someone’s body. When you hit a creature with an unarmed strike, you can spend 9 Ki points to start these imperceptible vibrations, which last for a number of days equal to your monk level. The vibrations are harmless unless you use your bonus action to end them. To do so, you and the target must be on the same plane of existence. When you use this action, the creature must make a Constitution saving throw. If it fails, it is reduced to 0 hit points. If it succeeds, it takes 10d10 necrotic damage. You can have only one creature under the effect of this feature at a time. You can choose to end the vibrations harmlessly without using an action. You can use this ability a number of times per day equal to your wisdom modifier.

Adapted Martial Arts

The training of a shadow monk folds the use of assassin’s tools into your martial arts. When you choose this tradition at 3rd level, daggers, shortswords, shortbows and darts become Monk Weapons for you and can be used to make stunning strikes.

Shadow Arts

Starting when you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you can use your Ki to duplicate the effects of certain spells. As an action, you can spend 2 Ki points to cast darkness, darkvision, pass without trace, or silence, without providing material components. Additionally, you gain the minor illusion cantrip if you don’t already know it.

In addition, you gain proficiency in the stealth sKill

Eyes in the Darkness

When you cast the Darkness spell using your shadow arts, you can spend an additional Ki point to gain the ability to see within the magical darkness it creates.

Shadow Step

At 6th level, you gain the ability to step from one shadow into another. When you are in dim light or darkness, as a bonus action you can spend 1 Ki point to teleport up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space you can see that is also in dim light or darkness. You then have advantage on the first melee attack you make before the end of the turn.

Cloak of Shadows

By 11th level, you have learned to become one with the shadows. When you are in an area of dim light or darkness, you can spend 3 Ki points and use your action to become invisible. You remain invisible until you make an attack, cast a spell, or are in an area of bright light.

Opportunist

At 11th level, you heave learned to ready your enemies to deliver a single devastating attack. As an action, you can make a single opportunist attack with your martial arts, spending Ki points to deal additional damage. The additional damage is equal to one roll of your martial arts die for each Ki point spent. The maximum number of Ki you can spend in this way is equal to your proficiency modifier plus your wisdom modifier.

Feed the Hungry Shadows

By 17th level, you have learned to touch the Ki of others while within the shadows. When you make a successful attack against an enemy in darkness, you can spend 7 Ki points to attempt to engulf your target in shadow. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw, taKing 5d10 psychic damage on a successful save. On a failed save, they are transported into a harmless demiplane. The target remains in the demiplane for up to 1 minute, until you choose to end the effect or until you fail a concentration saving throw. The target can re-make the saving throw at the end of each of their turns, returning to the space it left or the nearest unoccupied space if that space is occupied.

If the ability ends without the target passing their saving throw, the target is returned to an unoccupied space of your choice within 10 feet of you that is in dim light or darkness.

Initiate of the Way

When you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you learn how to manipulate the four elements in subtle ways. You learn two of the following cantrips: control flames, gust, mold earth, or shape water. You learn two additional cantrips from this list at 6th level.

You also learn the spell absorb elements which you can cast by spending 1 Ki point.

Disciple of the Elements

At 3rd level, you begin to master the four elements. You learn how to mimic the effects of spells using your Ki. The effect is identical to the named spell, but only requires somatic components to cast.

The maximum number of Ki points you can spend at one time on any ability is equal to your proficiency modifier. Abilities can mimic spells cast at higher levels by spending one additional Ki point per additional spell level.

You gain two of these abilities when you choose this tradition at 3rd level, as well as an additional two at 6th, 11th and 17th levels. You may swap one ability for any other when you gain a level in this class.

The number of elemental abilities you can use before completing a long rest is one plus half your monk level.

Elemental Path

At 3rd Level, you may select one element, Earth, Fire, Air or Water, to focus your training on. Abilities and features of the chosen element cost one less Ki point to activate and you gain two additional abilities of the chosen element when you choose this tradition at 3rd level.

You can change your mastered element and the abilities gained at 6th, 11th and 17th levels.

At 17th level, you can choose a second elemental path. If you choose the same path twice, Abiities and Features of that element have their cost reduced by two Ki points (Elemental Abilities have a minimum cost of 1) and any effect that would give you resistance to a damage type grants immunity instead.

Fist of the Four Elements

At 6th level, your elemental mastery allows you to augment the attacks made with your Martial Arts ability. As a bonus action, you can spend 2 Ki points to activate your elemental attacks for 1 minute, choosing one element from the list below. Elemental attacks have an additional 5ft of range and can make stunning strikes.

Fire. Your attacks deal fire damage. Once per turn you can force an enemy hit by one of your attacks to take an additional 1d10 fire damage, increasing to 2d10 at 11th level and 3d10 at 17th level.

Water. Your attacks deal cold damage. Once per turn you can force an enemy hit by one of your attacks to make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, they are pulled 10ft towards you.

Air. Your attacks deal thunder damage. Once per turn you can force an enemy hit by one of your attacks to make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, they are pushed 10ft away from you in a straight line.

Earth. Your attacks deal bludgeoning damage and are magical for the purposes of overcoming resistances. Once per turn you can force an enemy hit by one of your attacks to make a Constitution saving throw or be knocked prone and have their speed halved until the end of your next turn.

Traverse the Elements

At 11th level, your mastery of the elements allows you to move in new ways. As an action, you can spend 4 Ki points to gain one of the following effects for one hour. Once you have used this ability, you cannot use it again until you have completed a short or long rest.

Ride the Wind. You gain resistance to thunder or lightning damage and gain a flying speed equal to your walking speed.

Spirit of the Waters. You gain resistance to cold damage and gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.

One with the Earth You gain tremorsense in a 30ft radius and gain a burrowing speed equal to half your walking speed.

At home in the flame You gain resistance to fire damage and you are immune to fire damage from non-magical sources. You are able to ignore the negative effects of being in an extreme cold or hot environment.

Touch of Death

Starting when you choose this tradition at 3rd level, your study of death allows you to extract vitality from another creature as it nears its demise. When you reduce a creature within 5 feet of you to 0 hit points, you gain temporary hit points equal to your Wisdom modifier + your monk level (minimum of 1 temporary hit point). Alternately, you can regain Ki points equal to half your proficiency bonus. When a creature within 5 feet of you is reduced to 0 hit points by other means, you can spend one Ki point to gain the same benefit.

Force of Life

At 3rd level, you learn the Spare the Dying cantrip if you do not know it already and gain proficiency in the Medicine sKill. If you already have medicine proficiency, you gain expertise instead.

Cold Hand of Death

At 6th level, your ability to manipulate the Ki of others allows you to draw the life from your targets by touch. As a bonus action you can spend 2 Ki points to change the damage type of your unarmed attacks to necrotic for one minute. Damage dealt with this ability cannot be healed until after the target has completed a short or long rest.

Voice from the Beyond

At 6th level, you have learned to tap into a deceased creature's residual Ki to speak with it from beyond the grave. You can spend 3 Ki points to cast Speak with Dead. You can do this a number of times per long rest equal to half your proficiency bonus.

Death Mask

At 11th level, you gain the ability to unsettle or terrify those around you, for your soul has been touched by the shadow of death. As a bonus action, you can spend 1 Ki point to attempt to chill the soul of your target.

The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw, or become frightened of you, have their speed reduced to zero and gain vulnerability to necrotic damage. This effect lasts for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the start of each of their turns. If the target succeeds on their saving throw or once the effect is ended, they cannot be targeted by this ability again until dawn the next day.

Mastery of Death

Beginning at 11th level, you use your familiarity with death to escape its grasp. When you are reduced to 0 hit points, you can expend 1 Ki point (no action required) to have 1 hit point instead.

Maintain the Balance

By 11th level, you have gained the ability to draw the life of others into yourself. Whenever you deal necrotic damage, you may spend 2 Ki points to regain hit points equal to the damage dealt.

Death's Grip

Starting at 17th level, your touch can channel the energy of death into a creature. As an action, you touch one creature within 5 feet of you, and you expend up to 10 Ki points. The target must make a Constitution saving throw, taking 1d10 necrotic damage per Ki point spent on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Bonus Proficiencies

Your martial arts technique mixes combat training with the precision of a dancer and the antics of a jester. When you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you gain proficiency in the Performance skill. If you already have proficiency on this skill, you gain expertise instead. You also gain proficiency with brewer's supplies.

Drunken Technique

At 3rd level, you learn how to twist and turn quickly as part of your Flurry of Blows. Whenever you use Flurry of Blows you gain the benefit of the Disengage action, and your walking speed increases by 10 feet until the end of the current turn.

Anything to Hand

At 3rd level, you gain the ability to use objects in your environment to your advantage. You gain proficiency with improvised weapons and can use improvised weapons as part of your Martial Arts.

You can spend 1 Ki point as part of taking the attack action to pick up an object from your environment and use it for those attacks. This counts as an improvised weapon and deals damage equal to your martial arts die while you are wielding it. The object is destroyed at the end of your turn.

Objects used for this must be things your character can wield one or two handed and must not be weapons. These could include things like mugs and tankards, trays, plates or other tableware, stools or small chairs, long bones, sticks or logs, rocks or bricks, a purse of coins, a belt or coil of rope, pans and pots or articles of clothing.

The item can also be used as a thrown weapon with a range depending on its weight. Objects weighing less than 10lb have a range of 20/60 and items weighing more than 10lb have a range of 10/25.

Tipsy Sway

Starting at 6th level, you can move in sudden, swaying ways. You gain the following benefits.

• Leap to Your Feet. When you're prone, you can stand up by spending 5 feet of movement, rather than half your speed.
• Redirect Attack. When a creature misses you with a melee attack roll, you can spend 1 Ki point as a reaction to cause that attack to hit one creature of your choice, other than the attacker, that you can see within 5 feet of you.
• Twisting Grip. When you hit with an unarmed attack, you can spend 1 Ki point to make an immediate Grapple Check using either Strength or Dexterity for the roll.

Powerful Breath

Starting at 6th level, you have learned to infuse your Ki into the alcohol on your breath to harm your foes. As an action you can spend 2 Ki points and consume an alcoholic beverage to produce a breath attack in a 15ft cone dealing fire, acid or poison damage (your choice)

Anyone caught in the cone must make a DEX save or take 4d6 damage of the chosen type. You can increase the damage of this ability by spending additional Ki points, increasing the damage by 1d6 for each additional point spent.

Drunkard's Luck

Starting at 11th level, you always seem to get a lucky bounce at the right moment. When you make an ability check, attack roll, or a saving throw, you can spend 2 Ki points to gain Advantage for that roll.

Spirit of the Crowd

At 11th level, you master the art of using your Ki to sway a crowd. If you are among a crowd (at least 10 people), you can spend 5 Ki points and 10 seconds to seed an idea into the crowd. This can lead the crowd to take an action, such as becoming unruly, dispersing peacefully, starting a chant, denouncing the action of an authority or demanding the welease of Bwian, or this can cause them to become fearful, friendly or hostile towards a specific figure or group.

The crowd can be incited to commit violence but cannot be forced to take actions that will directly injure its members (such as walking through a battlefield, attacking its own members or engaging an overwhelming force.) This effect can be maintained by concentration while you are within the crowd and will end 1 minute after you break concentration or leave the crowd.

Intoxicated Frenzy

At 17th level, you gain the ability to make an overwhelming number of attacks against a group of enemies. When you use your Flurry of Blows, you can make additional attacks with it provided that each Flurry of Blows attack targets a different creature this turn.

Path of the Kensei

When you choose this tradition at 3rd level, your special martial arts training leads you to master the use of certain weapons. This path also includes instruction in the deft strokes of calligraphy or painting. You gain the following benefits.

Sharpen the Blade

From 6th level, you gain the ability to augment your weapons further with your Ki. As a bonus action, you can expend Ki points to grant one Kensei weapon you touch a bonus to attack and damage rolls equal to the number of Ki points spent.

This bonus lasts for 1 minute or until you use this feature again. This feature has no effect on a magic weapon that already has a bonus to attack and damage rolls. The maximum number of Ki points you can spend on this ability is one, increasing to two at 11th level and three at 17th level.

One With the Blade

At 6th level, you extend your Ki into your Kensei weapons, granting you the following benefits.

Magic Kensei Weapons. Your attacks with your Kensei weapons count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Deft Strike. When you hit a target with a Kensei weapon, you can spend 1 Ki point to cause the weapon to deal extra damage equal to one roll of your Martial Arts die. You can only use this feature once per turn.

Disciplined Study

From 6th level, your relentless focus allows you to rapidly master new skills and tools. You can spend an hour in meditation and reduce your Ki point maximum by 3 points to gain proficiency in a skill, set of tools or instrument for 8 hours. Your Ki point maximum is restored when you lose the proficiency.

You can use this ability once as part of a long rest without breaking the rest.

Arms Master

At 11th level, you expand your mastery of weapons to include those with the heavy or special property. You can only have one special or heavy weapon as your Kensei weapon at a time.

Unerring Accuracy

At 17th level, your mastery of weapons grants you extraordinary accuracy. If you miss with an attack roll using a monk weapon on your turn, you can spend 1 Ki point to reroll it. You can use this feature only once on each of your turns.

Inner Light

Starting when you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you can use your Ki to duplicate the effects of certain spells. As an action, you can spend 2 Ki points to cast the Blindness or Blur spells without providing material components. You also learn the light cantrip if you do not know it already.

Radiant Sun Bolt

Starting when you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you learn to hurl searing bolts of magical radiance.

You gain a new attack option that you can use as part of your Martial Arts feature. This special attack is a ranged spell attack with a range of 30 feet. You are proficient with it, and you add your Dexterity modifier to its attack and damage rolls. It deals radiant, fire or force damage (your choice), and its damage die is your Martial Arts die, as shown in the Martial Arts column of the Monk table.

This special attack can be used for any or all of the attacks you make as part of the Attack action including Martial Arts, Flurry of Blows and Extra Attack. The range of this special attack increases to 60ft at 6th level, 90ft at 11th level and 120ft at 17th level.

Searing Arc Strike

At 6th level, you gain the ability to channel your Ki into searing waves of energy. As part of taking the attack action on your turn, you can spend 2 Ki points to cast the burning hands spell, replacing one of the attacks and dealing radiant, fire or force damage (your choice).

You can spend additional Ki points to cast burning hands as a higher-level spell. Each additional Ki point you spend increases the spell's level by 1. The maximum number of Ki points you can spend on this ability at one time is equal to your proficiency bonus.

Revealing Light

At 6th level you can use your Ki to call forth sunlight from within your soul. As an action, you can spend 3 Ki points to cast the Daylight spell targeting yourself.

Searing Sunburst

At 11th level, you gain the ability to create an orb of light that erupts into a devastating explosion. As an action, you can spend 2 Ki point to magically create an orb of light and hurl it at a point you choose within 150 feet, where it erupts into a sphere of radiant light for a brief but deadly instant.

Each creature in that 10-foot-radius sphere must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 4d6 radiant damage, or half as much damage on a failed save. A creature doesn't need to make the save if it is behind total cover that is opaque. You can increase the sphere's damage by spending additional Ki points. Each point you spend increases the damage by 2d6. You can also increase or decrease the radius of the effect by spending additional Ki points, the radius increasing or decreasing by 10ft for each Ki point spent (if the radius is decreased to zero, it becomes a single-target ability)

Improved Step of the Wind

From 11th level, when you activate step of the wind on your turn you may spend 1 Ki point to gain a flying speed equal to your walking speed until the end of your turn.

Sun Shield

At 17th level, you can call forth your inner light to become wreathed in a burning aura. As a bonus action, you can spend 4 Ki points to become wreathed in a luminous, magical aura. You shed bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light for an additional 30 feet. You can extinguish or restore the aura as a bonus action. While this aura is active, you gain a flying speed equal to your walking speed.

If a creature moves within 5 ft of you while this light shines, or starts its turn within 5 ft of you, it must succeed on a constitution saving throw or take radiant damage equal to half of your monk level.

Unstopable Radiance

As an action you can spend 6 Ki point to cast the Sunbeam spell. You can use this ability a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier before completing a short or long rest.

Implements of Mercy.

You gain proficiency in the Insight and Medicine skills, and you gain proficiency with the herbalism kit.

You also gain a special mask, which you often wear when using the features of this subclass. You determine its appearance, or generate it randomly by rolling on the Merciful Mask table.

Hand of Healing

Your mystical touch can mend wounds. As an action, you can spend 1 ki point to touch a creature and restore a number of hit points equal to a roll of your Martial Arts die + your Wisdom modifier.

When you use your Flurry of Blows, you can replace one of the unarmed strikes with a use of this feature without spending a ki point for the healing.

Hand of Harm

You use your ki to inflict wounds. When you hit a creature with an unarmed strike, you can spend 1 ki point to deal extra necrotic damage equal to one roll of your Martial Arts die + your Wisdom modifier. You can use this feature only once per turn.

Physician's Touch

You can administer even greater cures with a touch, and if you feel it's necessary, you can use your knowledge to cause harm.

When you use Hand of Healing on a creature, you can also end one disease or one of the following conditions affecting the creature: blinded, deafened, paralyzed, poisoned, or stunned.

When you use Hand of Harm on a creature, you can subject that creature to the poisoned condition until the end of your next turn.

Flurry of Healing and Harm

You can now mete out a flurry of comfort and hurt. When you use Flurry of Blows, you can now replace each of the unarmed strikes with a use of your Hand of Healing, without spending Ki points for the healing.

In addition, when you make an unarmed strike with Flurry of Blows, you can use Hand of Harm with that strike without spending the Ki point for Hand of Harm. You can still use Hand of Harm only once per turn.

Hand of Ultimate Mercy

Your mastery of life energy opens the door to the ultimate mercy. As an action, you can touch the corpse of a creature that died within the past 24 hours and expend 5 Ki points. The creature then returns to life, regaining a number of hit points equal to 4d10 + your Wisdom modifier. If the creature died while subject to any of the following conditions, it revives with them removed: blinded, deafened, paralyzed, poisoned, and stunned.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.