Monk

Warriors of the Cosmic Balance watch the mystic paths of the world, the dimensional portals and arcane gates. And where eldrtich horrors seek to intrude upon the world, these warriors stand waiting. They are trained to use their inner power to purge even the strongest afflictions, and their merest touch can send the mightiest abominations back to the horrid pits that spawned them.

When a creature within 60 feet of you attempts to teleport, you can take a Reaction and spend 1 Focus Point to prevent the teleportation.

As a Bonus Action, you can touch a willing creature (which could be yourself) and choose one of the following options.

Once per turn when you hit a creature with an Unarmed Strike, you can expend 3 Focus Points to cast Banishment targeting that creature. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for it.

Manipulate Gravity Through Your Focus

Monks that have spent ample time in artificial gravity can feel the difference in their focus; natural gravity is substantial and wholesome, like an embrace from a great planet itself, whereas artificial gravity hums with a flimsy electrical artifice. With practice, these Monks learn to manipulate their own gravity, throwing their center of mass about in defiance of physical conventions and shifting gravitational fields around them.

You have Advantage on any Unarmed Strike you make while falling. Once per turn when you hit with such a strike, you deal extra Bludgeoning damage equal to 1d6 for every 10 feet you fall, to a maximum of 3d6.

You can expend 3 Focus Points to cast Intensify Gravity or Zero Gravity without a spell slot. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for these spells. You can choose to be unaffected by either spell.

When you use your Singularity Strike, you can expend 4 Focus Points to cast Gravity Well centered on the target. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for this spell. You automatically succeed on your saving throw against the spell and take no damage from it.

Manipulate Forces of Life and Death

Warriors of Mercy manipulate the life force of others. These Monks are wandering physicians, but they bring a swift end to their enemies. They often wear masks, presenting themselves as faceless bringers of life and death.

Your Hand of Harm and Hand of Healing improve, as detailed below.

When you use Flurry of Blows, you can replace each of the Unarmed Strikes with a use of Hand of Healing without expending Focus Points for the healing.

In addition, when you make an Unarmed Strike with Flurry of Blows and deal damage, you can use Hand of Harm with that strike without expending a Focus Point for Hand of Harm. You can still use Hand of Harm only once per turn.

You can use these benefits a total number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

Your mastery of life energy opens the door to the ultimate mercy. As a Magic action, you can touch the corpse of a creature that died within the past 24 hours and expend 5 Focus Points. The creature then returns to life with a number of Hit Points equal to 4d10 plus your Wisdom modifier. If the creature died with any of the following conditions, the creature revives with the conditions removed: Blinded, Deafened, Paralyzed, Poisoned, and Stunned.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Long Rest.

Prove Your Superiority

Monks who become Warriors of Pride value themselves above all. These monks focus on mastering their form, ego, and their destructive power. They display monastic aesthetics publicly with the intention of gaining the respect and admiration of "lesser beings."

The prideful traditions of this order include adorning themselves with jewelry, hiding their scars, and commanding respect from those who would oppose them.

Damage dealt to you is damage dealt to your pride, and that is something you simply can't allow. Whenever a creature deals damage to you, you can take a Reaction and expend 1 Focus Point. You have Advantage on attack rolls against that creature until the end of your next turn.

When you score a Critical Hit while you are Bloodied, you can roll one additional damage die when determining the extra damage dealt by the attack.

When you are reduced to 0 Hit Points and not killed outright, you can expend 1 Focus Point to enter a trance. While in this trance, you have the following effects:

Whenever you start your turn with 0 Hit Point, you must expend 1 Focus Point to maintain a trance, and you make Death Saving Throws as normal.

Injuries to your pride enrage you. You are considered Bloodied if your current Hit Points are below your Hit Point maximum.

Atone for Past Mistakes

No one is born intent on bringing evil into this world, yet many lives are transformed by the suffering inflicted upon them. Warriors of Regret are haunted by the shadows of evil deeds done.

Through training and reflection, Warriors of Regret accept their past can't be erased. Instead, they focus on forging remorse and grief into a weapon against their foes. Though their misdeeds follow their every step, Warriors of Regret are not powerless to atone for them.

You can take a Bonus Action to take the Help action or touch a creature and restore a number of Hit Points equal to a roll of your Martial Arts die plus your Wisdom modifier. You can use this feature as though you were in the shade's space.

You can expend 3 Focus Points to release your pent-up guilt in a crushing wave that drops your foes to their knees. Creatures of your choice in a 20-foot Emanation originating from you or your shade must make a Wisdom saving throw against your Focus Point save DC. On a failed save, a creature takes Psychic damage equal to three rolls of your Martial Arts die and has the Prone condition. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage only.

Your Shade of Regret now lasts for 10 minutes. After using Flurry of Blows, your Shade can make one additional Unarmed Strike as per Shade Strike. You can also use the Stunning Strike feature through the Shade Strike.

Harness Shadow Power for Stealth and Subterfuge

Warriors of Shadow practice stealth and subterfuge, harnessing the power of the Shadowfell. They are at home in darkness, able to draw gloom around themselves to hide, leap from shadow to shadow, and take on a wraithlike form.

While entirely within Dim Light or Darkness, you can use a Bonus Action 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 next melee attack you make before the end of the current turn.

You can draw on your Shadowfell connection to empower your teleportation. When you use your Shadow Step, you can expend 1 Focus Point to remove the requirement that you must start and end in Dim Light or Darkness for that use of the feature. As part of this Bonus Action, you can make an Unarmed Strike immediately after you teleport.

As a Magic action while entirely within Dim Light or Darkness, you can expend 3 Focus Points to shroud yourself with shadows for 1 minute, until you have the Incapacitated condition, or until you end your turn in Bright Light. While shrouded by these shadows, you gain the following benefits.

Let Your Strikes be Guided by Your Ancestors

Monks who choose this tradition have always believed that they should honour their ancestors. And because of that their ancestors want to protect them and let them make a difference.

Unlike many other monks, the ones who choose this tradition don't come from monasteries, but from families they love dearly.

Starting at 6th level, you can contact your ancestors to help you in your endeavours. You can now use the Help action, for attacks, as a Bonus Action, as your ancestors will distract the enemy for you.

In addition to that you can use an Action to spend 2 Focus Points to gain the following benefits for 1 hour:

Starting at 11th level, you can use the ethereal plane to move from one enemy to the other. When you take the Attack action, you can teleport up to 10ft before each attack. If you attack at least two creatures in this way, you don't have to spend a Focus Point to use Flurry of Blows or Ancestral Blow.

Starting at 17th level, your connection with your ancestors is so close that they can send forth a physical manifestation of their will to protect you. As an action you can cast an 8th level Summon Celestial, without requiring the material components and concentration. Wisdom is used for the spell attack modifier.

You can use this feature once, regaining the use when you finish a Long Rest.

The Spirit of the Dragon Fuels Every Strike

Warriors of the Ascendant Dragon channel the primal power of dragons, blending their disciplined martial prowess with draconic majesty and might. By attuning to draconic energy, they gain abilities such as breath weapons, flight, and the power to fortify their allies. Whether their power comes from direct contact with a dragon, ancient teachings, or meditation near dragon lairs, these monks seek spiritual harmony with the world's elemental forces, drawing strength from the magic and mysticism of dragons.

When you use your Step of the Wind, you can unfurl spectral draconic wings from your back that vanish at the end of your turn. While the wings exist, you have a Fly Speed equal to your Speed.

The power of your draconic spirit now radiates from you, warding your allies or inspiring fear in your enemies. As a Bonus Action, you can create an Emanation of draconic power that radiates 10 feet from you for 1 minute. For the duration, you gain one of the following effects of your choice:

Once you create the Emanation, you can't create it again until you finish a Long Rest, unless you expend 3 Focus Points to create it again.

Your draconic spirit reaches its peak. You gain the following benefits:

Strength is Born From the Soul, not the Flesh

Warriors of the Astral Self view their physical body as a temporary vessel and believe their true form is an astral self—an ethereal embodiment of their spirit. This translucent form, visible only when summoned, reflects the monk's soul and varies based on their inner nature. It can represent order, protection, empowerment, or dominance, and may not resemble their physical appearance. As they progress, monks harness their astral self's power to defend the weak or assert their will, guided by their core motivations and ideals.

When you activate your Arms of the Astral Self, you can also summon the Visage of your Astral Self. This visage covers your face like a helmet or mask. You determine its appearance. It vanishes when your Arms of the Astral Self do.

While the spectral visage is present, you gain the following benefits.

When you have both your Arms of the Astral Self and your Visage of the Astral Self active, you can cause the body of your Astral Self to appear (no action required). This spectral body envelops your physical form like a suit of armor, connecting with the arms and visage. You determine its appearance.

While the spectral body is present, you gain the following benefits:

Your connection to your Astral Self reaches its peak, allowing you to fully unleash its potential. As a Bonus Action, you can expend 4 Focus Points (or 3 Focus Points if your Astral Arms are already active) to summon the arms, visage, and body of your Astral Self and awaken it for 10 minutes. This awakening ends early if you have the Incapacitated condition or die.

While your Astral Self is awakened, you gain the following benefits:

You can expend 10 Focus Points to cast the Astral Projection spell. When you cast this spell in this way, you don't require Material components and you can only affect yourself, unless you expend 2 additional Focus Points for each additional creature you want to affect, up to your Wisdom modifier. Once you cast Astral Projection this way, you can't do so again until you finish a Long Rest.

The Path to Victory is Never Straight

The Warrior of the Drunken Fist follows an unorthodox fighting style, mimicking the staggered, erratic movements of a drunkard to bewilder opponents. What appears to be a clumsy stumble is, in fact, a precise and elusive combat technique, where blocks, parries, and strikes blend seamlessly into a chaotic, yet calculated, rhythm. These warriors use humor and unpredictability to frustrate enemies, often playing the fool to disarm arrogance or lift spirits. However, in battle, they are far from clumsy, proving to be unpredictable and formidable foes.

You can move in sudden, swaying ways. You gain the following benefits.

Your unpredictable movements and iron constitution make you seem untouchable, shrugging off toxins and turning fortune in your favor.

Your chaotic fighting style lets you overwhelm multiple foes or relentlessly batter a single opponent with a flurry of strikes.

Wield Strikes and Bursts of Elemental Power

Warriors of the Elements tap into the power of the Elemental Planes. Harnessing their supernatural focus, these Monks momentarily tame the energy of the Elemental Chaos to empower themselves in and out of battle.

As a Magic action, you can expend 2 Focus Points to cause elemental energy to burst in a 20-foot-radius Sphere centered on a point within 120 feet of yourself. Choose a damage type: Acid, Cold, Fire, Lightning, or Thunder.

Each creature in the Sphere must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes damage of the chosen type equal to three rolls of your Martial Arts die. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage.

While your Elemental Attunement is active, you also have a Fly Speed and a Swim Speed equal to your Speed.

While your Elemental Attunement is active, you also gain the following benefits.

The Blade's Precision Reveals the Soul's Intent

Warriors of the Kensei, otherwise known as Sword Saints, dedicate themselves to mastering their chosen weapons until these tools become extensions of their very being. Rooted in the art of swordsmanship, this tradition has grown to encompass a wide variety of weapons. A Kensei warrior approaches his weapon as an artist would a paintbrush or a pen, using it to channel the elegance and precision of his martial prowess. His exceptional skill is the result of unwavering dedication, rigorous practice, and deep study.

You extend your focus into your monk weapons, granting you the following benefits.

You gain the ability to augment your weapons further with your focus. As a Bonus Action, you can expend up to 3 Focus Points to grant a Monk weapon you touch a bonus to attack and damage rolls equal to the number of Focus Points you spent. This bonus lasts for 10 minutes or until you use this feature again.

If you want to use this effect on a magic weapon, you need to spend twice the number of Focus Points. If the weapon already has a bonus to attack and damage rolls, the attack and damage bonus of the weapon when you apply this effect cannot be higher than 4.

Your mastery of weapons brings out the potential of your Kensei weapons. You gain the following benefits with each weapon mastery property:

Harness the Will to Resist

In contrast to the esoteric ideals of other orders, Warriors of the Leaden Crown have practical aims: the self-governance of all people. These Monks see history as a series of clashes between groups of powerful beings where Humanoids are at best collateral damage and at worst disposable pawns. To break this cycle of dependence and destruction, Warriors of the Leaden Crown master mental abilities to fight against the otherworldly powers of the multiverse and protect Humanoid sovereignty.

One component of this plan involves training to do battle with powerful planar foes. The other equally important component is ensuring that Humanoid societies are prepared to overthrow those already dominating them. To that end, these Monks seek political positions that place them in or near decision-making roles where they can influence others to fight back against Arch Seraphs, Arch Daemons, and Primordials.

Once on each of your turns when you hit a creature with your Unarmed Strike or Monk weapon, you can force it to make a Strength saving throw against your Focus Point save DC. On a failed save, you can move the target up to 10 feet toward or away from you.

Each time you hit a creature with an Unarmed Strike, it gains a Pressure Point. A creature loses all Pressure Points if you cause a different creature to gain a Pressure Point or after 1 minute, whichever comes first. As a Bonus Action, you can expend 1 Focus Point to telekinetically crush a creature with 1 or more of your Pressure Points. The creature loses all Pressure Points and must make a Strength saving throw against your Focus Point save DC. On a failed save, the creature takes 1d8 Force damage per Pressure Point, and it has the Restrained condition until the end of your next turn. On a successful save, the creature takes half as much damage only.

After much training, you have mastered the psionic disciplines necessary to defend mortals from planar threats. As a Magic action, you can spend 5 Focus Points to cast Dispel Evil and Good, Hold Monster, Telekinesis, or Wall of Force. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for these spells, and you can cast them without Material components.

Reshape Your Body for Battle

Warriors of the Living Weapon pursue physical perfection, honing their body as a smith sharpens a sword. Their traditions are drawn from cultures of shape-shifters and creatures who fight with tooth and claw.

You gain one of the following options of your choice.

When you use Self-Restoration, the following conditions are added to the list of conditions you can remove: Blinded, Deafened, and Grappled.

In addition, when you finish a Short Rest you can remove 1 level of Exhaustion from yourself and when you finish a Long Rest you can remove all levels of Exhaustion from yourself.

Whenever you assume your Martial Form, you can expend an additional 3 Focus Points to gain the following benefits for as long as you remain in the form.

Death is a Teacher, Heed its Lessons Closely

Warriors of the Long Death are obsessed with the meaning and mechanics of dying. They capture creatures and prepare elaborate experiments to capture, record, and understand the moments of their demise. They use this knowledge to guide their understanding of martial arts, yielding a deadly fighting style.

Whenever you deal damage with your Unarmed Strike, it can deal your choice of Necrotic damage or its normal damage type. When you deal Necrotic damage to a creature in this way, that creature can't regain Hit Points until the start of your next turn.

You gain the ability to unsettle or terrify those around you as your soul has been touched by the shadow of death. As an Action you can force each creature of your choice within 30 feet of you that can see you to succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or have the Frightened condition until the end of your next turn.

Your close bond and familiarity with death give you the following benefits:

Your touch can channel the energy of death into a creature. As a Magic action, you touch one creature within 5 feet of you, and you expend 1 to 10 Focus Points. The target must make a Constitution saving throw, and it takes 2d12 Necrotic damage per Focus Point spent on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one. A creature that dies by this damage cannot be revived by any means other than the Wish spell.

Master Unarmed Combat Techniques

Warriors of the Open Hand are masters of unarmed combat. They learn techniques to push and trip their opponents and manipulate their own energy to protect themselves from harm.

You gain the ability to heal yourself. As a Bonus Action, you can roll your Martial Arts die. You regain a number of Hit Points equal to the number rolled plus your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1 Hit Point regained).

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a Long Rest.

When you take a Bonus Action other than Step of the Wind, you can also use Step of the Wind immediately after that Bonus Action.

You gain the ability to set up lethal vibrations in someone's body. When you hit a creature with an Unarmed Strike, you can expend 4 Focus Points to start these imperceptible vibrations, which last for a number of days equal to your Monk level. The vibrations are harmless unless you take an action to end them. Alternatively, when you take the Attack action on your turn, you can forgo one of the attacks to end the vibrations. To end them, you and the target must be on the same plane of existence. When you end them, the target must make a Constitution saving throw, taking 10d12 Force damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one.

You can have only one creature under the effect of this feature at a time. You can end the vibrations harmlessly (no action required).

Spread Virulent Plague with a Touch

Warriors of the Pestilent Haze draw plague into their very beings, folding it into their energy and becoming one with the disease. Monks who follow this tradition wander, often following or even preceding waves of pestilence. Some walk with caution, their touch measured, unleashing sickness only where dense populations must be culled. Others revel in the miasma spreading as far and fast as possible.

Your Miasmic Plague is a unique magical contagion that can take many forms that you weave through your deep connection to the affliction. The Plague Manifestations table offers suggestions for what magical form your signature disease takes as it spreads, as well as its hallmark symptoms.

The strain of your plague becomes more virulent and deadly. When you deal Necrotic or Poison damage, you ignore the target's Resistance to those damage types, if any.

You can unleash a cloud of miasma upon your enemies. As a Magic action, you can expend 2 Focus Points to unleash a cloud of miasma in a 20-foot Emanation originating from you. Each creature of your choice in that area must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes Necrotic damage equal to two rolls of your Martial Arts die and is cursed by your Miasmic Plague. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage only.

The strength of your Miasmic Plague has increased, granting you the following benefits.

Your plague has reached the height of its potency and its symptoms rapidly afflict your foes. Your Miasmic Plague ignores a target's Immunity to the Poisoned condition. Additionally, when you deal Necrotic damage to a target cursed by your Miasmic Plague, it takes extra Necrotic damage equal to one roll of your Martial Arts die.

Strike with Combos and Special Moves

"Street fighting" is an urban discipline founded on necessity, whose blindingly fast, unique brand of martial arts has been honed and perfected in back-alley brawls and tournaments alike. Monks who adopt this relatively new technique place comparatively little value on spiritual enlightenment and inner focus; the thrill of split-second timing, rapid combos, and decisive knock-outs drive them to become the best combatants in the world

You have memorized patterns of discrete movements that allow you to use the following special moves.

On your turn, you can expend 1 Focus Point to gain a Fly Speed equal to your Speed until the end of your next turn (no action required). You have Advantage on the next melee attack you make before the end of the current turn.

Once per turn when you hit a creature with an Unarmed Strike, you can attempt to knock the target out. The target takes extra Force damage equal to three rolls of your Martial Arts die. If the target has 100 Hit Points or fewer after you deal damage with the Unarmed Strike, it has the Unconscious condition for 10 minutes.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a Short or Long Rest. You can also restore your use of it by expending 5 Focus Points (no action required).

Unleash the Sun's Energy with Every Strike

Warriors of the Sun Soul harness their inner energy to manifest intense bursts of radiant light. They teach that meditation can unlock the ability to unleash the indomitable light shed by the soul of every living creature. This tradition emphasizes the purity and strength that can be drawn from the light within, transforming the monk into a beacon of celestial energy.

As a Bonus Action, you can expend up to 3 Focus Points to cause a 15-foot Cone of fire to come out of your hands. Roll a number of Martial Arts dice equal to 1 plus the amount of Focus Points expended. Each creature inside the cone must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking Fire damage equal to the total rolled on a failed save and half on a success. Any objects not being worn or carried start burning.

You can expend additional Focus Points as you gain Monk levels. You can expend 4 Focus Points at level 5, 5 at level 9, and 6 at level 17.

As a Magic action, you magically create an orb and hurl it, where it erupts in a 20-foot-radius Sphere centered on a point within 150 feet of yourself.

Each creature in the Sphere must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or take 2d6 Radiant damage. A creature doesn't need to make the save if the creature is behind Total Cover.

You can increase the sphere's damage by expending Focus Points points. Each point you expend, to a maximum of 3, increases the damage by 2d6.

As a Magic action while in bright light, you can expend 3 Focus Points to illuminate yourself for 1 minute, until you have the Incapacitated condition, or until you end your turn in Darkness. While illuminated you gain the following benefits.

Wield Warped, Flexible Limbs

Those who are exposed to the hideous lights of the Void essentially unravel. It is a gruesome sight to behold. However, trained Monks exert a specific resilience to this fate, as their Focus allows them to restrict and even harness the "warp" of the voidlights. No living thing can completely resist the influence of the Void, however, and warped Monks exhibit a characteristic, almost cartoonish pliability that allows them to stretch their arms and bodies with rubbery ease.

When you use your Deflect Attacks, you can redirect the attack's force even if you don't reduce the damage to 0. When you redirect an attack, the target takes damage equal to three rolls of your Martial Arts die, instead of two rolls, plus your Dexterity modifier.

Your springy form lets you weave through the battlefield with agility. You gain the following benefits.

You can use a Magic action and expend 3 Focus Points to unleash a barrage of Unarmed Strikes in a 30-foot Cone. You can make two Unarmed Strikes against each creature in the area. Make separate attacks against each target.

At 6th level, when you hit a target with an unarmed strike, you can spend 1 ki point to cause the attack to deal either radiant (if you are good-aligned or neutral-aligned) or necrotic (if you are evil-aligned) damage equal to your proficiency bonus. You can use this feature only once on each of your turns.

Beginning at 11th level, you are protected by the forces who spur your mission. If you are reduced to 0 hit points, you immediately regain hit points equal to your monk level. Alternatively, you can use an action to touch a fallen creature that has been dead for no longer than 10 minutes, and they return to life with hit points equal to your monk level.

You must finish a long rest before you can use this feature again.

Whenever any creature tries to attack you for the first time on a turn, you can use your reaction to roll a Charisma (Performance or Persuasion) ability check. If your check is higher than the creature's Wisdom ability score, it can't attack you on this turn, and it must choose a new target for its attack, or the attack is wasted.