Buddhist Feats (5e Class Feature)

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Feats

The following feats are available to characters with levels in the Buddhist Monk class. In addition, you may pick any standard DND feat that's not magical (unless your GM allows it).

You cannot gain any of these Buddhist Feats if you're a undead or a construct.

Background Feats

All of these feats are only obtainable when creating your character, they do not spend a feat slot but you must ask your gm if you have permission to use them.

Otherworldly Body You were born with a supremely powerful body for any number of reasons, such as being artificially created by a powerful monk for a greater purpose, this trait has reinforced to withstand very powerful attacks from all sources. You'll gain 5 additional hit points towards your hit point maximum whenever you gain a level in your class. You also can pick one physical ability score to increase its maximum to 22 and that score increases by 1 every level. Additionally your Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution scores all increase by 1 up to their maximums. If you picked Strength as your 22 stat then you gain the Natural Speedster and Reinforced Immune System feats. If you picked your Dexterity as your 22 stat then you gain the Athlete History and Reinforced Immune System Feats If you picked your Constitution as your 22 stat then you gain the Athlete History and Natural Speedster Feats You also gain proficiency in Constitution saves. Ki Generator Prerequisites: Must not be a Construct or Undead creature Whether through your ancestry or through simply being born that way, your ki reserves are naturally immense. You will add your Buddhist Monk level added twice + your proficiency bonus added twice when calculating your Ki maximum. Unique Ki Energy Prerequisites: Must not be a Construct or Undead Creature Your Ki naturally possesses a unique trait, making it both rare and powerful. Choose one damage type excluding necrotic and radiant. The chosen damage type becomes your Ki Energy Trait. When activating Energy Armor, you gain resistance to your Ki Energy Trait. Whenever you are hit by a melee attack while under the effects of Energy Armor, you deal your Ki Energy Trait as damage equal to your level towards the attacking creature. When you deal damage with the Empowered Strike or Weapon Enhancement, its damage type can be the same as your Ki Energy Trait or remain the same. Any features that may change their damage type depending on your selected Way of the Monk can change to match your Ki Energy Trait or remain the same. Your Ki Energy Trait naturally provide you with one of the following options: Wellspring Of Energy. Your Ki maximum will increase by your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier. If you possess a Buddhist Feat that increases your Ki maximum or a similar feature granted by your Way of the Monk, your Ki maximum is increased further by your Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution modifier. Dynamic Striker. Whenever you score a critical hit with an attack roll that uses a feature affected by your Ki Energy Trait or a creature rolls 1 on the d20 against a feature affected by your Ki Energy Trait, the creature is afflicted with a condition that depends on your Ki Energy Trait excluding any condition that causes the incapacitated , paralyzed, and restrained conditions (Discuss with your DM as which condition is possible) that lasts for 1 minute. They can end the chosen condition early by succeed on a saving throw at the beginning of their turn. (The saving throw depends on your ki energy trait) At 14th level, you gain resistance to your Ki Energy Trait and if you have Energy Armor active, you become immune to your Ki Energy Trait instead. Additionally, anytime you use a feature with its damage type changed to your Ki Energy Trait, you can bypass the resistance that a creature or target may have against that damage type but not any immunities it could possess. Design Note: Variant Rule: This Technique Is Mine! If a player character possesses the Unique Ki Energy background feat, the DM may allow for your Ki Energy Trait to fundamentally alter how your Way of the Monk functions. This can be anything from damage-type alterations to even entire features being replaced with new ones. Discuss with your DM regarding potential changes or feature reworks if this variant rule has been allowed.

Body Feats

The body is one of the most important things for a monk, his strength, durability and speed can be improved here.

Athlete History Prerequisites: Must have at least 15 Strength or more. You have been born unnaturally strong, capable of destroying walls with just sheer brute force. You will gain the following benefits: Your Strength score increases by 1, to its maximum. Your unarmed strike damage die increases by 2 tiers (1->d4->d6->d8->Etc.). You may use your Strength modifier instead of your Dexterity modifier when calculating your AC through Unarmored Defense. Colossal Physique Prerequisites: Must have a 17 Strength score or more, Athlete History The strength you now possess is capable of matching experts at ki reinforcement or massive and strong enemies. You gain the following benefits: You will count as two sizes larger for the purposes of grappling, shoving, disarming and the weight you can carry, push, drag, or lift. Your unarmed strike damage die increases by 1 tier (d8->d10->d12->Etc). You become proficient in the Athletics skill if you were not already proficient. If you were proficient in Athletics, you gain expertise instead. Lastly, if you already possess expertise in Athletics then you can add your proficiency to all Strength checks you make. Any attack roll you make which uses Strength deals twice as much damage to objects and structures. This may use Wisdom if you have Ki Reinforcement. You have learned to put your weight behind an attack and launch an opponent a considerable distance. Once per turn as part of a successful melee weapon attack, you can force the creature hit to make a Strength saving throw (DC8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier). On a failure, they are knocked directly back a number of feet equal to your Strength modifier times 10. If the creature collides with an unsecured object or structure, then the creature and the unsecured object or structure receive 1d6 bludgeoning damage for every 10 feet the creature had left to travel after colliding with the surface. If it was another creature, they instead both take damage equal to half of your damage roll (rounded down). If your attack was a critical hit, the creature automatically fails their saving throw and are knocked back twice the distance. Whenever you make a Strength check or saving throw, you can give yourself advantage on the roll. You can do this a number of times equal to your Strength modifier, regaining all uses after taking a long rest. This may use Wisdom if you have Ki Reinforcement. Natural Speedster Prerequisites: Must have at least 15 Dexterity or more You have an innate speed advantage over others of your kind or have trained intensely on your agility. You will gain the following benefits: Your Dexterity score increased by 1, to its maximum. Your movement speed increases by 15 feet. You have two reactions instead of one in each round of combat. A number of times equal to your Dexterity modifier you can use Patient Defense as a free action. Untraceable Speed Prerequisites: Must have a 17 Dexterity score or more, Natural Speedster Even by the supernatural standards of the monks, your agility is a trait that makes you just as fearsome as any other. You will gain the following benefits: If an action or feature increases any of your speeds, it is further increased by a number of feet equal to 5 times your Dexterity modifier (A minimum of 5ft). This may use Wisdom if you have Ki Reinforcement. You gain proficiency in one Dexterity skill of your choice or expertise if you were already proficient in the chosen skill. You can also add half of your proficiency bonus to all Dexterity checks you make that you weren't already proficient in. You may perform the Dash action or make a Skill Check you are proficient in as a bonus action. As a reaction to passing a saving throw or an attack roll being made against you, you may move up to half of your speed in a direction of your choice. This movement cannot be used to exit domains. If this movement would cause you to leave the area targeted by an attack roll you’re reacting to you may roll a Acrobatics check to attempt to fully dodge. You roll against the attack roll, causing the attack to miss regardless of your armor class if your Acrobatics check is higher than the attack roll. On a failure, the attack happens as normal, though you still move as normal. This roll automatically fails if the attack was a critical hit, unless you’re 10 or more levels above the attacker’s level, or CR if they don’t have a level. If you fail this roll by no more than 3 against an attack targeting one of your limbs with the Limb System then though you can’t fully dodge you may change which limb is targeted. In the case of a saving throw you are unaffected by the saving throw if you move out of the area of effect. You can make one melee attack as a reaction if you moved into range of a creature or a creature enters your range. You can only do this once per creature per round. Reinforced Immune System Prerequisites: Must have at least 15 Constitution or more Your body's immune system has naturally been superior to your peers or exposure to dangerous foreign elements has dramatically improved it. You will gain the following benefits: Your Constitution score increased by 1, to its maximum. You have advantage on saving throws against poisoned condition, and you have resistance against poison damage. You are proficient in death saving throws. Strong Body Prerequisite: Must have 15 Constitution or more. You have proven yourself to be very durable, making taking you down a very hard task. You will gain the following benefits: Your Constitution score increases by 1, to its maximum. You will now add your Constitution modifier twice when calculating hit points gained per level. You will reduce all damage you take but psychic or thunder by your Constitution modifier. Attacks using Ki or magic can bypass this, unless you're under the effects of energy armor. Human Wall Prerequisites: You must have 17 Constitution or more, Strong Body Your endurance is from out of this world, no matter what you're not going down in the battlefield. You will gain the following benefits: You have advantage on Constitution saving throws. Your hit point maximum increases by your level times 3, and whenever you gain a level thereafter, you will gain an additional 3 hit points toward your hit point maximum. As a reaction upon hitting 0 hit points, you can spend a hit die to fall to the amount rolled in hit points. This can be used as much as your Constitution modifier. All uses are restored on a long rest. This may use Wisdom if you have Ki Reinforcement. Resilient Prerequisites: You must have at least 15 on your Constitution score. Your resilience is no joke, enabling you to survive much more than normal monks during long periods of fighting. All of your Hit Dice increase in size by one step, and as a result, your hit points increase by an amount equal to your level + 1. Whenever you gain Hit Die and hit points after you have acquired this feat, your newly gained Hit Die is treated as though it was one size larger. You can take this feat any number of times, but you cannot increase a Hit Die above d12. Design Note: The calculation should be as if you had that hit die from level 1 onwards. If you calculate it and you have more hit points than you would if you had the increased hit die from level 1, then you did it wrong(such as increasing the initial increase of hp for each level, or increasing your hp by level*2+2 to “account” for the hit die increase itself. Normal HD Enhanced HD d4 d6 d6 d8 d8 d10 d10 d12 d12 d12

Martial Arts Feats

Os monges são versados em diversas artes marciais, conhecendo diversas técnicas de combate e até mesmo usufruindo da energia mística do ki para fortalecer esse aspecto.

Slam Master Prerequisite: Must have a Strength score of 16 or higher You fight like a beast on the battlefield, focusing on throwing your opponents around. You gain the two following Slams: Brute Slam. Once per turn as part of an unarmed strike, you may make a grapple attempt against a creature. If you succeed, you may pick up the creature and slam them against a solid surface within 10 ft. of you, such as the ground or a wall, dealing another roll of your martial arts die in damage. The surface takes twice as much damage as the creature, and if it breaks the creature takes another 2d6 damage of an appropriate type. Heavy Slam. Whenever you take the Attack action against a creature you are currently grappling with, you may forgo an attack to violently slam the creature into the ground. You make a contested Strength (Athletics) check against the creature who contests via Strength (Athletics) or Dexterity (Acrobatics) check (Their choice). On a successful check, your opponent is driven into the earth beneath you ending your grapple early, taking bludgeoning damage equal to two rolls of your martial arts damage dice and being knocked prone. On a failure, the creature escapes from your iron grasp, causing your grapple to end early and the creature may move an additional 5 ft. away from you as part of their successful check. If you score a 20 on the Strength (Athletics) check whilst using this feature and it was a success, the creature takes bludgeoning damage equal to four rolls of your martial arts damage dice and gains disadvantage on attack rolls, ability checks, skill checks and Strength or Dexterity saving throws until the start of your next turn. Acrobatic Fighter Prerequisite: Must have a Dexterity score of 16 or higher You've adopted a quick, swift and mobile fighting style, using your environment to your advantage. You may calculate your jump distance and height with your Dexterity score. Your jump distance and height is doubled. You learn to use the environment around you as a way to leverage your strikes. Whenever you make an unarmed strike while within 5 ft. of a solid surface or another object like a pole, you may use it to leverage a powerful attack against your opponent, dealing an additional damage die of your unarmed strike. If there are not any solid surfaces, you may use half your movement speed to drop to the ground on your hands, extending your legs up and making a powerful kick. Once per turn, whenever you fall onto a creature, make a DC 10 Acrobatics check. On a success, you may make one unarmed strike against that creature. Weaponized Fists prerequisites: Must have an unarmed strike damage die of a d8 or higher, Must have a Strength or Dexterity score of 15 or higher, Empowered Strikes, 6th level Your mastery of ki and martial arts transcends the raw form. You learn to coat your hands with ki to change the nature of your attacks, making your hands as sharp as blades and your fingers as swift and precise as spear thrusts. Whenever you make an unarmed strike, you can choose to deal piercing or slashing damage instead of bludgeoning damage. You decide the type of damage at the time of the strike. Additionally, when you hit a creature with an unarmed strike, you can spend 1 ki point to deal additional damage equal to your Wisdom modifier and have an additional effect, depending on the type of damage used: Bludgeoning. You stun your enemy. The target can’t take reactions until the start of your next turn, and the first attack it makes that turn has disadvantage. Slashing. You slice deeply into your enemy’s tendons. The target’s movement speed is reduced to 0, and the target has disadvantage on the next strength or dexterity check it makes until the end of your next turn. Piercing. You cause the target to bleed. For 1 minute, the target takes additional necrotic damage at the end of its next turn, equal to one Martial Arts die. The creature can stop the bleeding with a successful Wisdom (Medicine) check against your Ki Save DC, made by the creature or another creature within 5 feet of it, or recover at least 1 hit point with magical healing. Your Ki-Empowered Strikes feature is applied normally to your unarmed strikes. Ki Martial Artist Prerequisite: Must have an unarmed strike damage die of a d10 or higher, Must have the Empowered Strike enhancement, 8th Level Your expertise regarding unarmed combat exceeds those of a similar skill level through complex training and overall mastery of this martial practice. You will gain the following benefits: Your unarmed strikes, when benefitting from the Empowered Strike enhancement, have their critical hit range increased by 1 (Ex. If you would score a critical hit on a roll of 20 with your unarmed strikes, you can now score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20 so long as you use Empowered Strike). Additionally, whenever you score a critical hit with an unarmed strike, you can roll one additional unarmed strike damage die when determining the extra damage for the critical hit. If you have taken the Attack action on your turn and only used unarmed strikes, when you make any unarmed strike which benefits from Empowered Strike as a bonus action, the enhancement's ki cost is reduced by 2 (to a minimum of 1). As a reaction to when a creature fails a melee attack roll against you, you can make one unarmed strike against them. On a successful hit, you may add your Wisdom modifier (A minimum of +1) to the damage roll. Shiranui-Gata Prerequisites: Must have at least 16 Strength score. Shiranui-Gata is a stance normally used by sumo wrestlers during the opening ceremony. The user assumes the stance by squatting with their head forward and arms extended outward in both directions. This is used in order to brace for impact to grab an enemy. As an action, you can enter this stance. Once you have entered the stance you can make a reaction against an enemy within range who attempts to hit you with a melee attack roll. When they attack you, you only take half damage if they hit you and you may attempt to grapple them with advantage. The stance ends when you grapple a creature. Afterimage Assault Prerequisites: 20 Dexterity or greater, Untraceable Speed Through mastery of your immense speed, you've discovered how to create afterimages to even the odds against strong opponents. As a bonus action, you may spend an amount of ki points up to two times your Wisdom or modifier to create a number of 1 hit point clones that are identical to you up to half of the cursed energy spent. These clones can be used to grant flanking and can only be up to half of your movement speed away from yourself. Once per round, you may swap with one of these clones as a bonus action or reaction to being targeted by an attack or being forced to make a saving throw. A creature can distinguish these clones from the original by making a Wisdom (Insight) check against your Ki save DC or your battle maneuver save DC. They have advantage on this check if they have the Ki Energy Tracker option from the Advanced Energy Usage class feature, and are focusing on you with it, but will make the check at disadvantage if you have the Ki Energy Concealer option from the Advanced Energy Usage class feature activated, or if stamina points were expended as opposed to cursed energy. Protector’s Stance Prerequisites: 20 Constitution or greater, Human Wall You have reached the pinnacle of endurance, learning how to harden your body and prepare yourself for any attacks. As a bonus action for up to your Wisdom score in ki points, you harden your skin and enhance your senses for 1 minute. For the duration, you gain a damage reduction equal to double the amount spent, and your movement speed is halved. You may end this stance at any time for no action required. Whenever you get hit by a melee attack, you can make a melee attack against the attacker as a reaction. Additionally, for the duration you gain one additional reaction just to use this feature. Mind Games Prerequisites: Must have at least a 12 Intelligence score, Expertise in Deception, and be 8th level or higher. When an opponent can see through the moves of your body, the best way to beat them is to get in their head. When you make an attack roll against an enemy for the first time on your turn, you may make a Deception check contested with their Insight check. If you win the roll, you have advantage on attack rolls against that creature for 1 minute. At the end of the creature’s turns it may repeat the contested rolls with each time your Deception check being lowered by 2.

Ki Feats

Feats related to your Ki in it's pure and fundamental form, and also in how you use it.

Immense Ki Prerequisites: Must have 15 Wisdom or higher. Your Ki has massive reserves, making you become a ki powerhouse. You gain the following benefits: Your Wisdom score increases by 1, to its maximum. You will add your proficiency bonus and you can add your Wisdom modifier one additional time when determining your Ki points. Overflowing Ki Prerequisites: Must have 17 Wisdom or higher, Immense Ki Your Ki reserves are so absurdly massive that they seem practically endless at times even allowing you to perform great feats of Monks when others run out of ki. You gain the following benefits: Your Wisdom score increases by 1, to its maximum. You will add half of your character level (rounded up) + your proficiency bonus when calculating your ki points maximum. Dense Ki Prerequisites: Must have 20 Wisdom or higher, Overflowing Ki feat or Ki Generator feat, at least 2 Ki Enhancements. Your ki is far more dense than a normal monk, allowing your applications to be more powerful. You can choose one of the following options: Dense Strikes. Your Empowered Strike damage dice tier is now a d12. Durable Armor. Your Energy Armor temporary hit point amount is now the amount of Ki points spent times 15, times 20 at 11th level. Destructive Weapon Enhancement. Your Weapon Enhancement extra damage is now equal to an amount of Ki points spent times 4. Mistical Enhancement. Whenever you use a damage dealing feature that utilizes Ki its damage dice will be increased by one tier,(d6->d8->d10). This feature does not apply to Empowered Strikes if you have the Dense Strikes option as that counts as an increase already for this feat. It also doesn't apply to Empowered Strikes Ki Enhancement. If or when you get the Improved Ki Output feat, you may choose an additional option within the feat and if or when you get the Legendary Ki Output feat, you may choose an additional option within the feat and finally, if or when you get the Divine Ki Output feat, you may choose an additional option within this feat. Advanced Energy Usage Prerequisites: Must have at least one level in the Buddhist Monk Class. You’ve learned more ways to use Ki in tandem with your other abilities, you will gain the following: Your Wisdom score increases by 1, to its maximum. You will gain two options from the Advanced Energy Usage class feature. You can take this feat once.

Ki Manipulation Feats

Feats related to how you manipulate Ki.

Ki Manipulator Prerequisites: Must have an 13 or higher Wisdom score, a Ki Enhancement You have been trying out new ways to use your ki and managed to learn a new method of using it. Your Wisdom score increases by 1, to its maximum. You may choose an additional Ki Enhancement from the list of choices. This feat may be taken multiple times. Peace Induction Prerequisite: Must have an 16 or higher Wisdom, 6th level The Buddhist Monk can induce peace and calm in the hearts of hostile creatures, causing them to give up attacking for a temporary period. As an action by spending 5 ki points, you can release a harmless wave of ki up to a 60-foot radius with yourself as the epicenter, all hostile creatures in the radius must make a Wisdom saving throw against your Ki save DC to resist the effects, on a failure the creatures are charmed for 1 minute. A creature who have failed can repeat the check at the end of each of its turns. For every 5CR a creature is above your level the DC is reduced by half your proficiency bonus. Although, for every 5CR a creature is below your level the DC is raised by half your proficiency bonus. If a creature passed the save and it hasn't been 24 hours since, the creature has advantage on subsequent saving throws if subjected to the effects of this feat again. Fear Induction Prerequisite: Must have an 16 or higher Wisdom, 6th level Monks can choose to use the influence of your Ki to cause emotional disorders and thus generate fear on others. As an action, by spending 5 ki points, you can release a frightening wave of ki up to 60-foot radius with yourself as the epicenter, all hostile creature in the radius must make a Wisdom saving throw against your Ki save DC to resist the effects, on failure the creatures are frightened for 1 minute. The creature who have failed can repeat the check at the end of each of its turns. For every 5CR a creature is above your level the DC is reduced by half your proficiency bonus. Although, for every 5CR a creature is below your level the DC is raised by half your proficiency bonus. If a creature passed the save and it hasn't been 24 hours since, the creature has advantage on subsequent saving throws if subjected to the effects of this feat. Ki Enhanced Body Prerequisites: Must have one Physical Ability Score (Strength, Dexterity or Constitution) of 16 or higher, must have an 18 or higher Wisdom score, 12th level Your entire body is enhanced by the mistical energy of ki, making you excel in tasks people who train their bodies all their lives can't. You gain the following benefits: Whenever you make a Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Intelligence or Charisma saving throw, you may spend Ki points up to your Wisdom modifier as a reaction to add the number of ki spent as a bonus to the saving throw. When attacking with your unarmed strikes or weapons you are proficient with, you may add half of your Wisdom modifier (rounded down) to your attack and damage rolls. This only applies if you currently have 1 ki or more. Ki Reinforcement Prerequisites: Must have two Physical Ability Scores (Strength, Dexterity or Constitution) of 16 or higher, Ki Enhanced Body, 16th level Having been continuously running ki through your body at such an efficient rate, you are capable of dynamically reinforcing it at an unconscious level. You gain the following benefits so long as you have at least 1 ki: When you make a Strength, Dexterity or Constitution ability check, you may add your Wisdom modifier to it. When calculating your jump distance and height, you may add your Wisdom score when calculating distance and modifier when calculating height. Additionally your jump distance and height are doubled. You may add your Wisdom score when determining your carrying capacity. Your carrying capacity (including maximum load and maximum lift) is also doubled. Whenever you are calculating your AC through Unarmored Defense, you may add half of your Wisdom modifier to the final result. This second instance of adding your Wisdom score counts as if you were using two separate ability scores for the purposes of other features and rules. The Ki-Empowered Strikes class feature now inflicts an additional die of damage. The damage from Ki-Empowered Strikes may be either radiant, bludgeoning or another damage type if your Way of the Monk alters the feature. You gain an extra reaction. This extra reaction can only be used to provide a bonus to your saving throws from the feature found in the Ki Enhanced Body feat. Ki Energy Slash Prerequisites: At least 16 on your Wisdom score, Weapon Enhancement As an action while Weapon Enhancement is active on a weapon that deals slashing damage, you can spend Ki points up to your Wisdom modifier to produce a huge ki energy slash. You make all creatures in a 30ft. line make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failure, they take the damage of your weapon + a number of additional die equal to the amount of ki points spent in radiant damage, on a success they take half as much damage. The damage type of this technique may change according to your way of the monk. Ki Energy Ray Prerequisites: At least 16 on your Wisdom score You have learned how to create huge blasts out of pure ki. As an action and by spending ki points up to your Wisdom modifier, you can launch a energy ball in a line of 30ft. Once it reaches the end of the line, it will explode in a 15ft. circle, making every creature in that range make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failure, they take 1d12 + a number of additional dice equal to the amount spent in radiant damage, and half as much on a success. The damage type of this technique may change like the Empowered Strike and Weapon Enhancement features. Ki Energy Explosion Prerequisites: At least 16 on your Wisdom score You are capable of releasing a destructive burst of Ki from your body. As an Action by spending Ki points up to your Wisdom modifier, you can release a burst of raw Ki. Every creature within a 30ft circle of the caster must make a Dexterity Save. On a failure they take 1d12 + a number of additional dice equal to the amount spent in radiant damage and are knocked back to the edges of the circle. They take half as much damage on a success and are not knocked back. The damage type of this technique may change like the Empowered Strike and Weapon Enhancement features. Ki-Manifested Tools prerequisites: Must have an Wisdom of 18 or higher, at least 2 Ki Enhacements, 6th level You have been honing your use of ki creations and doing so has granted you the ability to create tools. After focusing on normal objects for 1 hour turn them into Ki-Manifested Tools. You learn how to create one of the following Ki-Manifested Tools: Weapon. You enhance the weapon greatly, making it deadly enough to cut even through evil spirits. Attacks with the item deal additional radiant damage equal to its damage dice + your Wisdom modifier. If a creature is killed by a ki-manifested weapon, it cannot be turned into undead or revived by any means other than true resurrection or wish. Starting at 10th level, when you enhance a weapon this way, its additional radiant damage die increase by one tier (e.g: 1d4->1d6->1d8 etc). The maximum of times you can enhance a ki-manifested weapon is equal to 5. Sight Improvement. You enhance glasses, lenses, or other forms of visual equipment to have access to the supernatural. A creature holding the item gains a bonus to Wisdom (Perception) or Intelligence (Investigation) checks that rely on sight equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum 1), and if you can't normally see spirits, you are able to do so while wearing these glasses. Armor. You enhance the protection to be able to resist even powerful attacks. While a creature is wearing the armor, the armor possesses its own hit points equal to 10 + 5 times your Buddhist Monk level. These hit points are reduced before your own hit points whenever you are subject to physical damage, that would affect you where the armor can protect you. After the hit points end, they are regained at the end of your next long rest. This can only be applied to clothes or armor. At 10th level, you can improve an armor or clothes already enhaced. You may enhance an armor or clothes a number of times equal to 2, increasing the temporary hit points to 15 + 5 times your Buddhist Monk level and 20 + 5 times your Buddhist Monk level respectively. A Ki-Manifested Tool count as a magical item/weapon. This feat may be taken a total of 3 times, choosing a different option from the list. Interdimensional Storage Prerequisite: Must have an Wisdom score of 16 or higher, 8th level In monasticism, Ki is not only the life force, but also the energy that binds and shapes the material world. By perfectly balancing body and mind in meditation, the Buddhist Monk learns to “bend” this bond, creating a small dimensional anomaly. You gain the following benefits: You can store objects in an extradimensional space at no ki cost. However, interacting with an object stored in this extradimensional space costs 1 ki point, potentially removing the item from the space. All items in your Interdimensional Storage still count against your carrying capacity. Your mastery of using ki to manipulate space allows you to use it against other creatures. You can attempt to trap a hostile creature that you can see inside your Interdimensional Storage. As a bonus action or reaction to an attack made against you, you can spend 2 ki points and force a creature to make a Dexterity (Acrobatics) check against your Ki DC. On a failed save, it becomes trapped and its attack automatically fails (if you use this feat as a reaction to an attack). On a successful save, it is no longer trapped and can continue its actions. Its weight counts against its carrying capacity. Creatures trapped in your Interdimensional Storage can make a Strength or Dexterity saving throw (your choice) at the end of their turns, freeing themselves on a successful save. Ki Forger Prerequisites: Must have an Wisdom of 18 or higher, at least two Ki Enhacements, 8th level You have learned to shape your ki into solid forms, creating temporary constructs of pure spiritual energy. Choose one of the four forms below when you gain this feat. You can learn additional forms at 12th level, 16th level, and 19th level. Manifest Weapons. You can spend 1 ki point as a bonus action to create an energy weapon of any type you have proficiency in. You can spend 3 ki points to summon two weapons at once, but only if they have the one-handed and light properties; otherwise, only one weapon is summoned. Your Manifest Weapons deals radiant damage equal to your Martial Arts die, and you can use your Wisdom modifier to attack and damage rolls instead of what you normally would. Your Manifest Weapons last for 1 minute and also benefit from the Ki-Empowered Strikes feature (if you have the option for weapon attacks). If you have the Imbued-Ki Projectiles feat, you can use it with Manifest Weapons that have the thrown property. Ki Protection. As a bonus action, you can spend 2 ki points to create a spectral shield or armor that envelops your body. This armor or shield lasts for 1 minute and grants a bonus to your AC equal to half your Wisdom modifier (minimum 1, does not stack with physical shields), temporary hit points equal to 5 times your Buddhist Monk level and resistance to a damage type of your choice (nonmagical damage). You can also choose to activate the armor or shield as a reaction to being targeted by an attack, spending 4 ki points instead of 2 ki points. You continue to benefit from the Buddhist Monk class features even wearing armor and shields made of ki. You cannot use the Energy Armor from your Ki Enhancement feature while you have Ki Protection active. If you have the Ki Reinforcement feat, the bonus you receive from Ki Protection to AC becomes your Wisdom modifier instead of half, but you do not benefit from the AC bonus granted by Ki Reinforcement while using Ki Protection. You can also protect yourself by creating barriers (such as a wall) as a reaction, spending the same number of points you would for a shield or armor. Barriers remain in place like Ki Constructs but for 1 minute and can be dismissed (no action required). Manifest Limbs. As a bonus action, you can spend a number of Ki points equal to half your Wisdom modifier to manifest a number of extra limbs (such as Ki arms or legs) equal to the points spent. For 1 minute, these limbs hover in the air or are attached to your body somewhere (such as your back, shoulders, or ribs). They can be used to make attacks or interact with objects and creatures within a range of up to 10 feet. You can also hold your Manifest Weapons or ki shield with your Manifest Limbs. Your Manifest Limbs deal radiant damage equal to your Martial Arts die and can use your Wisdom modifier on attack and damage rolls. Your limbs also benefit from the Ki-Empowered Strikes feature (if you have the unarmed strike option). These limbs do not increase your carrying capacity but can benefit from the Ki Reinforcement feat, if you have it. You can also use them to replace lost limbs, but the range of your attacks with them remains the same as your natural range. Once per round, when performing Flurry of Blows, you can spend 1 additional ki point as part of the same action to instead use all of your Manifest Limbs for the attack, making a number of attacks equal to the number of limbs summoned. Ki Constructs. As an action, by spending a certain amount of ki points, you can create a simple nonmagical object (such as a bridge, pillar, wall, pedestal, or block) with up to 8 cubic feet per ki point spent (for example, 3 ki points = 25 cubic feet). The object lasts for 10 minutes, has an AC equal to your ki save DC, 20 hp per cubic foot, and is vulnerable to psychic damage. You can increase its volume by spending more ki, up to a maximum of ki points equal to your Wisdom modifier per use. Created objects cannot deal damage directly, but they can be used to block, climb, pass through, or lift. Creatures cannot stand in the same space occupied by a ki construct. You can only have a number of ki creations active equal to half your monk level (rounded down). While you have ki creations active, you cannot use spells, feats, or Way of the Monk and Buddhist Monk class features that require concentration. All ki creations disappear instantly when their duration ends (unless you spend ki to reactivate the ki creation), if you dismiss them (no action required), become incapacitated, stunned, unconscious, or die. The damage type of your ki creations may change depending on your Way of the Monk. You cannot combine magic items that require physical weapons, armor, or shields with your ki creations. Improved Ki Output Prerequisites: Must have an Wisdom score of 18 or higher, 12th level Through a long and difficult process, you have managed to strengthen your ki output which can now be used to amplify your monk techniques further. As apart of any feature which uses ki, you can expend extra ki on it equal to half of the feature’s original cost to amplify its output. Amplify a feature this way grants one of the following benefits: The feature’s number of damage dice increases by half of your Wisdom modifier, rounded down. If the feature does not deal damage dice, it’s damage bonus increases by a quarter of the original amount. The feature’s range increases by 5 times your Wisdom modifier + 1 in feet. This range increase does not work with touch-based techniques. The feature’s bonus to hit is increased by +2 The feature’s DC increases by +2 The feature’s duration increases by a number of rounds equal to your Wisdom modifier + 1. Legendary Ki Output Prerequisites: Must have a Wisdom score of 20 or higher, Must have at least two Ki Enhancement, Improved Ki Output, 15th Level Your ki output has become so efficient that the power you generate is legendary and your more generalized applications are something that only masters possess. You will gain the following benefits: Your Empowered Strike deals additional damage equal to your Wisdom modifier + 1 (A Minimum of 1 to a maximum of +6). You can also expend additional ki points equal to half of your proficiency bonus, rounded down to double the damage bonus from this feat. Your Energy Armor will provide you with resistances to two damage types of your choice whilst you have temporary hit points from the Ki Enhancement. These damage resistances may be changed on a long rest or once per round as a bonus action or reaction to yourself using the Ki Enhancement. Your Weapon Enhancement will provide you with a bonus to your AC equal to half of the ki points expended, rounded down + 1 so long as you are wielding the weapon which has the enhancement applied to it. You can not benefit from this bonus more than once at a time. If you have the Ki Energy Slash, you can decide if it is a 60ft line, 30ft cone or 20ft radius around you (you are excluded from making the saving throw) which deals double damage to structures or objects in range. If you have the Ki Energy Ray feat, you can change the Dexterity saving throw into either a Strength or Constitution saving throw and it deals double damage to structures or objects in range. If you have the Ki Energy Explosion feat, the range of the explosion increases by 10ft for every ki points expended and it now deals double damage to structures or objects in range. Finally if you use the Improved Ki Output in one feature, it’s total ki cost will now be reduced by your Wisdom modifier + half of your proficiency bonus, rounded up, to a minimum of 1. This ki reduction does not apply for the purposes of the Flawless Fundamentals feat. Divine Ki Output Prerequisites: Must have a Wisdom score of 20 or higher, Must have all Ki Enhancement options, Legendary Ki Output, 18th Level Gaining complete and absolute mastery over your ki output enables you to alter the very capabilities of your monk techniques and abilities. As apart of any feature that uses ki, you can expend 8 ki points to drastically alter its functions as part of the same action you use the feature with. If the feature was a Ki Attack, the target of your attack or attack rolls has their AC treated as if it had been reduced by half of your proficiency bonus (rounded down) + 1. If the feature was a Ki Save, you may change the saving throw to another depending on its original save. The changes are the following below: Original Saving Throw Changed Saving Throw Strength Dexterity Dexterity Constitution Constitution Strength Intelligence Wisdom Wisdom Intelligence Your Ki Enhancements are also affected by your unbelievably high ki output with the following: Reinforced Empowered Strike. Whenever you use a empowered strike, its damage tier will be increased by one. Reinforced Energy Armor. While your energy armor is active, you regain temporary hit points equal to your proficiency bonus at the beginning of your turns. These temporary hit points cannot go above the maximum amount of armor you can have. Reinforced Weapon Enhancement. Whenever you are attacking with a weapon that has been affected by weapon enhancement, your reach increases by 5ft. The maximum ki limit for the Ki Energy Slash, Ki Energy Ray or Ki Energy Explosion feats is now doubled. Finally, whenever you use a ki fueled feature and amplify its output using Improved Ki Output then you can apply two benefits as opposed to one by expending ki points equal to the feature's cost (A minimum of 1). Flawless Fundamentals Prerequisites: 20 Wisdom score or higher, must have all Ki Enhancement options, Ki Reinforcement, Improved Ki Output, 19th level. Your ki manipulation is some of the best that the world has ever seen, it must take at least a couple of centuries for another person such as yourself to be born once again. You pick 2 of the following categories to have their ki cost reduced: Category Things Reduced Enhancement and Reinforcement All Ki Enhancements and Ki Enhanced Body. Healing Ki All ki point spent on Quickened Healing or Improved Quickened Healing. Ki Manipulation All Ki Manipulation Feats. Taijutsu All Taijutsu Feats and Martial Arts. For the categories you selected, any features that require ki to be expended may instead reduce its cost by twice your proficiency bonus (to a minimum of 1 ki). [Ex. With a proficiency bonus of 6, this ki feat reduces the costs of features that require ki points by 12.] Additionally, as apart of short rest, you can begin to meditate for 30 minutes to replenish your expended energy. This allows you to regain ki equal to half of your maximum (rounded up) after you finish the short rest. If or when you get the Legendary Ki Output feat or Divine Ki Output feat then you may pick an additional 2 categories to reduce the cost of. If you possess both of the output feats then you reduce the cost of everything that costs ki and you gain the following feature: You may choose one feature from your Way of the Monk that requires ki. If Flawless Fundamentals and/or a Buddhist Monk class feature reduces its cost by double its original cost, the feature's cost instead becomes 0. A feature's cost can only be treated as 0 from a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier + 1 (A minimum of 1). You regain all expended uses of the '0' cost feature after you finish a long rest. Imbued-Ki Projectiles Prerequisites: Weapon Enhancement You have learned to imbue your ki into ranged weapons, allowing you to manipulate any piece of ammunition shot from it. This also works with weapons with the thrown property. When using Weapon Enhancement, you can imbue a ranged weapon, which turns any pieces of ammunition shot from it for the duration into Imbued-Ki Projectiles, which also add your Wisdom modifier to the damage instead of any other modifier you would use. When using these Imbued-Ki Projectiles, you make ranged Ki Attacks instead of what you would normally use to attack with them, and you control their trajectory while in the air, making attacks with them ignore cover. Additionally, they will stay in the air floating for a number of rounds equal to your Wisdom modifier, allowing you to keep making attacks with them using a Bonus Action even after being shot until they hit a solid object or target, when they lose this property. You can only attack with a number of pieces of ammunition this way per turn a number of times up to your Wisdom modifier. A creature in range may attack your Imbued-Ki Projectiles to destroy them; they have 1 hit point and 10 AC.

Healing Ki Feats

These are feats of and related to the healing capacity of ki.

Quickened Healing Prerequisites: You must be at least 4th level, have 17+ Wisdom score. You have learned to use the mistical energy of ki to heal. You have a pool of healing you can use with your ki that's equal to 5 times your level times your Wisdom modifier. As a bonus action for x ki points, you can remove healing from that pool to regain hit points. You may also remove healing from the pool as a reaction to receiving damage. For every 1 ki point spent, you regain 10 hit points, removing an equal amount from the pool. If you are suffering from a physical effect injury such as a concussion or something similar, one of these effects can be healed for every 10 hit points healed with reverse cursed technique. This cannot heal the health of lost limbs. You can use your Quickened Healing until your healing pool ends before getting burnout, during which you can't use Quickened Healing until your healing pool recovers. At the beginning of your turns while in a combat where your life is at risk, you regain 5 hit points of your healing pool back. Your healing pool automatically goes back to full at the end of a long rest, or short rest if you recover ki on a short rest. Once per round, you may try to force your Quickened Healing to come out despite being in burnout, forcing you to make a DC25 Constitution saving throw. On a failure, you will gain 1 level of exhaustion, which can be reduced upon taking a short or long rest instead of just upon taking a long rest. On a success, you regain half as many hit points as you normally would. Improved Quickened Healing Prerequisites: You must have Quickened Healing feat. You have a great understanding of the use of ki to healing purposes. You will gain the following benefits: Your healing pool has been increased to 10 times your level times your Wisdom modifier. You now regain 20 hit points per ki point spent. You now regain 10 hit points of your pool at the beginning of your turns. You now may heal others creature. You may cause a creature within your reach to gain the benefits of Quickened Healing instead of you. The DC to force Quickened Healing will be reduced to 20. Hit points healed will now apply to lost limbs. By healing 10 hit points with Quickened Healing, you can end the poisoned condition on yourself.

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