The Monk

Actions

• Meditate (0 Ki): You may enter a state of meditation to attempt to tap into your inner ki reserves. Maintaining Meditation requires your concentration. At the start of your next turn, if you maintained concentration, you may spend one Hit Die to regain ki equal to 1d8 + your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1). You can only spend Hit Die gained through monk levels this way.
• Gleaming Assault (2 Ki, Monk 9): Until end of turn, your movement doesn’t provoke Opportunity Attacks, and as you move you may immediately make an unarmed attack against any creature that comes within your melee range. Each creature can only be attacked once this way.
• Quickening (3 Ki, Monk 10): Cast Haste on yourself.
• Second Sight (4 Ki, Monk 13): Cast True Seeing on yourself.
• Circular Breathing (8 Ki, Monk 15): You lose 1 level of Exhaustion.
  
  

Bonus Actions

• Flurry of Blows (1 Ki): 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. After doing so, you may continue your flurry by spending extra ki. Additional attacks made this way cost 1 additional ki for each unarmed strike made prior to it as part of the Flurry of Blows action. You can add a maximum number of attacks this way equal to your proficiency bonus.
• Step of the Wind (0+ Ki): Dash as a bonus action. You may spend 1 ki, to have your jump distance multiplied by your proficiency bonus this turn. You can only use this ability while wearing light or no armor and no shield.
• Patient Defense (1 Ki): Dodge as a bonus action.
• Reversing Tide (1 Ki): Disengage as a bonus action.
• Ki Shroud (1 Ki, Monk 3): By focusing you can shroud yourself in a protective layer of ki. You gain temporary hit points equal to your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier. You may spend additional ki to fortify the shroud. For each additional ki point spent, the temporary hit points gained are increased by the base amount. However, you may only spend a total amount of ki up to your proficiency bonus. Maintaining the shroud requires concentration and it lasts up to 10 minutes.
• Tempered Fists (1 Ki, Monk 6): By focusing ki into your fists you greatly enhance your striking power. You gain a +1 bonus to Attack and Damage Rolls with unarmed strikes. This ability requires concentration, and it lasts up to 10 minutes. You may spend additional ki to increase the bonus equally, but you may spend no more ki than half your proficiency bonus rounded down this way.
  
  

Reactions

• Deflect Missile (0+ Ki): Negate the damage of one ranged weapon attack against you. You may spend 1 ki to catch the missile. If you do so, you can make a ranged attack with the weapon or ammunition you just caught, as part of the same reaction. You make this attack with proficiency. The projectile has a normal range of 20 feet and a long range of 60 feet.
• Slow Fall (0 Ki): You can use your reaction to reduce falling damage by 5 times your monk level. You can only use this ability while wearing light or no armor and no shield.
• Intercepting Fist (1 Ki, Monk 7): Whenever a creature willingly enters or leaves your melee range, you may use your reaction to make an unarmed attack. If you hit, its speed drops to 0 for the rest of the turn.
• Iron Body (2 Ki, Monk 12): Until the end of your turn, you gain resistance to all damage types, except force damage. You must declare the use of this ability before damage is rolled but may wait until after attack rolls or saving throws have been made.
  
  

Combination Attacks

A combination attack can be declared as part of the Flurry of Blows ability. These attacks become progressively more effective the more unarmed attacks you made against the target. You learn a combination attack at 5th level, and again at 8th and 11th level.

• Crippling Torrent (1 Ki, Monk 5+): Immediately after resolving Flurry of Blows, the target creature’s movement is reduced by 10 feet per unarmed attack hit you scored against it this turn. If the creature’s movement becomes 0 this way, it must make a Strength saving throw. Upon failure, all bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage dealt to the creature is increased by 1d8. The crippling effects of this ability last until the end of your next round.
• Hollow Palm (1 Ki, Monk 5+): Immediately after resolving Flurry of Blows, the target creature is pushed back 5 feet per unarmed attack hit you scored against it this turn. If the creature is pushed 15 or more feet this way, it must make a Dexterity saving throw or become knocked prone.
• Stunning Barrage (1 Ki, Monk 5+): Immediately after resolving Flurry of Blows, if you hit the target creature with an unarmed attack this turn, it loses its reaction. If you hit it twice, it must make a Constitution saving throw or become stunned until the end of your next turn. If you hit it at least three times, it makes the Constitution saving throw with disadvantage instead.
  
  

Special Actions

• Focused Aim (1 Ki, Monk 5): When you miss an attack, you can spend 1 ki point to reroll the Attack roll and take the second result.
• Unbreakable Will (0 Ki, Monk 7): At the start of your round, if you are affected by the Charmed or Frightened condition, you may forgo your Action to end one of those conditions.
• Unwavering Form (1 Ki, Monk 14): Whenever you make a saving throw and fail, you can spend 1 ki point to reroll it and take the second result.

Unarmored Movement

Starting at 2nd 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.

Monastic Tradion

When you reach 3rd level, you commit yourself to a monastic tradition. Your tradition grants you features at 3rd level and again at 6th, 11th, and 17th level.

Ability Score Improvement

You can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. You can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature. Using the optional feats rule, you can forgo taking this feature to take a feat of your choice instead.

Spiritual Vigor

The rush of adrenaline and heightened ki flow cause your wounds to heal at an exceptionally rate. Beginning at 4th level, whenever you regain ki through the Meditate ability during combat, you in addition heal that many hit points.

Extra Attack

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Diamond Soul

Beginning at 5th level, and again at 8th, 11th and 14th, level your mastery of ki grants you proficiency in a saving throw of your choice.

Ki-Empowered Strike

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

Evasion

At 7th level, your instinctive agility lets you dodge out of the way of certain area effects. 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. You only benefit from the feature only use this feature while wearing light or no armor and no shield.

Purity of Body

At 10th level, your exceptional control over your inner ki flow makes you immune to disease and poison.

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. Moreover, any creature that can understand a language can understand what you say.

In addition, you gain proficiency in Insight checks. If you already have proficiency in Insight, you gain expertise instead.

Timeless Body

At 15th level, your physical body can be sustained through ki alone, you no longer need food or water. Furthermore, you do you age or suffer the frailty of old age, and you can't be aged magically. You can still die of old age, however.

In addition, whenever you finish a long rest, you regain all your Hit Dice, instead of half.

Warrior Sage

From 18th level, you may instead activate the Meditate ability by using your Bonus action.

Furthermore, in addition to your Constitution modifier, you may also add your Wisdom modifier to Constitution saving throws made to maintain concentration.

Transcendance

At 20th level, mastery over your body, mind and ki allows you to transcend your physical limitations. All your ability scores increase by 2 to a maximum of 22.