Cultivator

The Dark Thralls technique was created by a cultivator who used the ki in her body to control the shadows of others. Her prowess was such that affected enemies often found themselves savaged by their own shades. Users of this technique fit well into support and offensive roles, using controlled shadows as effectively as any weapon.

Beginning at 7th level, you can use the dark to slide along the ground like a living shadow. As part of your movement, you may move up to your movement speed as a shadow on a surface. You may move horizontally or vertically, but if your movement ends on a wall or a ceiling then you fall to the ground. This movement does not provoke opportunity attacks.

In bright light you move at half speed; in dim light or darkness you gain 10 feet of additional movement as a shadow.

Upon reaching 7th level, you are adept at cloaking yourself in your own shadow. You can spend 1 ki point to use the Hide action as a bonus action. If you have a marked ally in your aura you can Hide without cover.

Starting at 11th level, subjugated shadows respond to your whims with terrifying strength. As an action, you can spend 2 ki points and cause a marked enemy in your aura to make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failure they have their shadow torn into and are dealt 4d6 necrotic damage or half of that on a successful save. This damage can not be resisted and you can only use this ability on the same creature once per day.

Additionally, you may mark creatures as you attack. You can choose to have these attacks deal no damage.

At 15th level, you can command all controlled shadows to tear others limb from limb. When you would use your Shade Mastery feature, that creature instead takes 4d6 necrotic damage on a failed save per marked creature within your aura.

Cultivators learning the Falling Phoenix technique have a predilection for fire. Some particularly enjoy raining it from the heavens, and seize on any chance to do so.

Starting at 7th level, you learn to rain a flock of phoenixes on a flock of foes. You can cast burning hands using 3 ki points.

Additionally, whenever you cast create bonfire, you may make an attack as a bonus action.

Upon reaching 11th level, you gain resistance to fire damage. Whenever you are in your interal stance you instead gain immunity to fire damage.

Additionally, your abilities ignore fire resistance, and treat fire immunity as fire resistance.

At 11th level, your control over fire lends you the most potent and notable aspects of the phoenix. While in your external stance you gain fiery wings and a fly speed of 60 feet.

While in interal stance you may spend 1 ki point to cast feather fall a number of times per day equal to your Intelligence modifier.

Beginning at 15th level, you begin to personify every aspect of the powerful phoenix. When an attack would reduce you to 0 hit points, you may instead fall out of your current stance and be reduced to 1 hit point and 0 ki remaining. The attacker takes 2d8 + 1d8 fire damage per ki point you had left before you were reduced to 0.

Once you use this feature, you cannot use it again until you take a long rest. The damage you deal increases to 2d10 + 1d10 per ki point fire damage at level 18. This damage is not affected by the external stance.

Masters of this technique manipulate the four winds to devastate and control the field around them. They're often some of the fastest fighters on the battlefield, with practitioners frequently augmenting themselves and the area around them using these winds generated or controlled by ki.

Beginning at 7th level, you become the north wind itself. As a reaction, whenever an enemy ends their turn, you may take an extra turn. During this turn, your movement does not provoke attacks of opportunity, and your movement speed is doubled.

Additionally, a warding breeze guards you, blowing away any mist or gases such as stinking cloud or fog cloud. Once you have used this feature, you may not do so again until you take a long rest.

At 11th level, using the hot southern winds to properl yourself through the skies. You gain a fly and hover speed equal to your movement speed when in internal stance.

Upon reaching 15th level, you may instantly call upon the destructive power of the eastern winds. You may spend 5 ki points to cast whirlwind. You may spend an additional 2 ki points to become immune to the effects of the spell. You may use this ability once per long rest.

Cultivators of this technique have chosen the path of channeled lightning. Able to flicker to and fro, these cultivators manipulate and embody the deadlier qualities of the bolts they frequently employ.

Beginning at 7th level, your body has become extremely efficient at sending lightning through it. Once per turn, while in internal stance, when you land a consecutive hit and have already gained sparks this turn, you gain 2 sparks instead of one.

Additionally, when you gain a spark, you may immediately spend it to deal 1 lightning damage, heal 1 hit point, and gain an extra 5 feet of movement until the start of your next turn. This movement gain can stack.

Upon reaching 11th level, you begin discharging excess electricity, damaging nearby foes. While in external stance you may make an attack as a bonus action, and when you spend ki or sparks to teleport, you may deal 2d4 lightning damage as part of that teleport to enemies within 10 feet of your destination.

At 15th level, as you spill with electrified energy, you begin to strike like true lightning. When you start your turn in external stance, with 4 or more sparks, you may spend 2 sparks to make an additional attack as part of the Attack action. You may continue to pay and attack within the same turn, as long as you have 2 or more sparks.

A master of the Iaijutsu technique spends their training time drawing and sheathing their weapon. These cultivators are able to instantly draw their weapons to deliver punishing attacks or devastating counterattacks. A truly focused Iaijutsu user can become a wall of blades, cutting down any and all attacks.

Upon reaching 7th level, you master the first position of this technique; using a single strike to fell an army. Twice per short rest you may, as an action, make a single melee attack roll against every enemy within your each.

When you reach 11th level, your practice has allowed you to master the next stance of this technique, capitalizing on your enemies mistakes. While in internal stance, enemies provoke opportunity attacks when they would leave any square in your reach.

Additionally, you add your Iai die to your weapon damage rolls for attacks made as reactions, and while in external stance you would instead add your Iai damage die twice.

At 15th level, you have developed a skill that epitomizes the perfect defense and offense. You may spend 1 ki point to gain and take a reaction anytime one would be triggered. You may do this a number of times per long rest equal to your Intelligence modifier.

Additionally, when you are about to take damage from a spell, melee, or ranged attack roll, you may make a weapon attack as a reaction. If you are in external stance, this attack is always made at disadvantage. If you roll higher than the attack roll you may roll your weapon damage adding your Iai dice, and subtract that from the damage you would take. If the damage is negated, you can redirect the attack back to its source, forcing your attacker to target itself with its attack using your attack roll.

Ki casting users are most known for their inexhaustible ammunition, ranged, and close quarters combat prowess. Another notable feature is their Ki Construct technique. Arrows made from their ambient auras that hose a slew of versatile abilities. These constructs leave the cultivator with the ability to be adaptable to many situations.

At 7th level, you learn how to make summoned ammo even more lethal in close quarters. Once per short rest, as an action, you may make a ranged attack roll with a range of 5 feet. On a hit, the attack is considered a critical hit.

This critical does not double the damage from Constructs.

Beginning at 11th level, your skill and talent at shooting lends you a deadly accuracy. Whenever you would roll damage for a summoned arrow, you may add your Intelligence modifier to that roll. If you do so while attacking without using a construct, you regain 1 ki point on a d20 roll of 10 or higher. This additional damage is doubled on a critical hit.

You may use this a number of times equal to your Intelligence modifier. You regain all uses after a short rest.

Starting at 15th level, you've become a spell caster's bane. As a reactoin, when an enemy within your weapon's first range casts a spell, you may make a ranged attack roll against them. This attack cannot be made at advantage. If the attack hits, you do no damage, but the enemy must make a concentration save as if it were concentrating on a spell with a DC equal to your Cultivator save DC. On a fail, the spell fails, and the slot is wasted. You may do this twice per long rest.

Ki Fortress adepts are taught that the best offense is a perfect defense. They learn that the shield should be the first weapon you grab, not the sword. Disciples of the technique strive to become an impenetrable wall between their allies and those who would do harm.

At 7th level, your mastery has extended to physical shields as well as metaphysical. You may make a thrown weapon attack with an energy version of your shield, with a range of 15/30 using Strength for attack and damage rolls. It deals 1d6 force damage and additional damage equal to any magic AC bonuses imparted by the shield. The shield shatters on impact.

Additionally, you may apply the bonuses to AC granted by a single shield on your person to your saves. This effect ends when you are rendered unconscious.

Upon reaching 11th level, saving your allies has become your prerogative. As long as you have 1 ki point remaining, you may use a bonus action to brace yourself. Until the end of your next turn, your movement speed becomes 0, you act as three-quarters cover for creatures medium size or smaller in a 15 foot cone behind you, and you gain a +2 to your AC and saving throws.

Starting at 15th level, your shield usage has reached a deadly efficiency. When you hit an enemy with an attack using a shield, you may use up to 3 ki points to do an extra 1d8 damage, plus 1d8 per ki point used after the 1st. Additionally, when you land a critical hit on an enemy, you may make a single extra attack as part of that Attack action.

This technique is taught to those who excel at meditative introspection. This is due to the required ability to find a soul space with which to house the weapons that will become your soul arms. The users of this technique will find themselves turned into whirlwinds of blades, storms of strikes, and never without a weapon.

Upon reaching 7th level, your master appropriate styles for your melded weapons. You choose an additional fighting style. Whenever you would summon or swap a weapon, you may also change this additional style to another you do not know.

Additionally, whenever you reach a level in this class that grants an Ability Score Improvement, you can replace a fighting style you know with another fighting style available.

Beginning at 11th level, your strikes have begun speeding up, becoming swifter the more you attack. You may spend 3 ki points to make an attack as a bonus action. This cost is reduced by 1 ki for each time you've swapped weapons this turn to a minimum of 1 ki point.

At 15th level, your mastery of the Forms has become less intent and more instinct. If a weapon you would use has multiple properties, you may use on additional Form at a time, for a total of two.

Known as the technique that pursues the oneness of everything. The ultimate whole of every state. Taiji disciples practice balancing opposing forces to achieve perfect harmony with the universe. These disciples, while seemingly docile in their slow and inexorable practice of forms, use their mastery of these skills to leverage opposing forces with dangerous effect.

Upon reaching 7th level, you grow your knowledge of the whole of life's many aspects, allowing you to harness the world's numerous dualities. All stance abilities referring to fire and cold damage may now be changed to poison and acid, or lightning and thunder damage. At 10th level, all stance abilities referring to fire and cold damage may now also be changed to radiant and necrotic, or psychic and force damage.

Additionally, you may use absorb elements for any elemental damage type you have access to regardless of whether you have chosen that damage type or not.

You can only choose one set at a time and you may choose a different set after a short or long rest.

At 7th level, you may become one with the elements. Once per long rest, as a bonus action, you may benefit from all the effects of both stance simultaneously without spending ki points for one minute. However, you gain vulnerability to your chosen elements for the duration.

This feature allows you to use all external stance abilities without spending a ki point.

Beginning at 11th level, you are able to enact your will upon elemental forces around you. You can cast absorb elements when an ally would take elemental damage. When you cast the spell in this way, the effects of absorb elements apply to all creatures within your aura range.

Furthermore, you may make an extra unarmed attack as a bonus action, as long as you have spent a minimum of 1 ki point this turn.

Starting at 15th level, you have reached the pinnacle of balance and control. While in external stance, your attacks ignore your chosen elements damage resistances, and you treat those same immunites as resistances.

While in internal stance, as a reaction, if an ally saves against a spell or ability that would have them take half damage, you may spend 1 ki point per ally in your aura to instead have them take no damage on a success. You may use this ability a number of times per day equal to your Intelligence modifier.