Hit Points

• Hit Dice: 1d8 per Monk level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 or 5 + your Constitution modifier per monk level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armor: none
• Weapons: Simple weapons, shortswords
• Tools: Choose one type of artisan’s tools and one musical instrument
• Saving Throws: Strength, Dexterity
• Skills: Choose two from Acrobatics, Athletics, History, Insight, Medicine, Performance, Religion, and Stealth.

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) a shortsword or (b) any simple weapon
• (a) a dungeoneer’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack
• 10 darts

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, 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.

Meditative Rest

Starting at 4th level, if you spend at least 15 minutes of a short rest meditating, you can accelerate the healing process. You regain a number of hit points equal to one roll of your martial arts die plus your proficiency bonus. You can do this before or after spending any hit dice, and can only do this twice between long rests.

Extra Attack

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

Focused Aim

Beginning at 5th level, when you miss with an unarmed strike, you can choose to hit instead. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

When you reach 13th level, you can use this feature twice between rests.

Cloistered Studies

At 5th level, you've chosen a path and have learned from doing and from study. Choose one of the following skills to become proficient with: History, Nature, or Religion. In addition, whenever you make a check that uses the chosen skill, you can add your Wisdom modifier to the check.

Acupressure Strikes

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

Presence of Mind

Starting at 7th level, you can still your mind and body and notice the micro movements of another's energy manifestations when they speak. You can use your action to end one effect on yourself that is causing you to be charmed or frightened.

Additionally, you can willingly impose disadvantage on anyone attempting a Wisdom (Insight) check against you, and you gain advantage on Wisdom (Insight) checks when being contested against by their Charisma (Deception) checks.

Evasion

Starting at 7th level, your instinctive agility lets you dodge out of the way of certain area effects, such as a blue dragon’s lightning breath or a fireball spell. 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.

Conditioned Reflex Improvement

Starting at 9th level, your instinctive reflex grows stronger allowing you to perform incredible feats without thought. The following features improve.

Deflect Missles. If you reduce the damage to 0, you can catch the missile if it is small enough for you to hold in one hand and you have at least one hand free. If you catch a missile in this way, you can make a ranged attack with the weapon or piece of ammunition you just caught. You make this attack with proficiency, and the missile counts as a monk weapon for the attack, which has a normal range of 20 feet and a long range of 60 feet.

Patient Defense. If the attacking creature has multiattack, it gains disadvantage on each of its melee attacks against you.

Purity of Body

When you reach 10th level, through meditation you tenure a deepening stage of your Zen. You become immune to disease and poison, and you increase your exertion pool by an amount equal to twice your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1).

Way of the Open Hand

Monks of the Way of the Open Hand are the ultimate masters of martial arts combat, whether armed or unarmed. They learn techniques to exercise control over themselves and their opponents.

Way of the Long Death

Monks of the Way 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 then use this knowledge to guide their understanding of martial arts, yielding a deadly fighting style.

Path of the Kensei

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

Kensei Weapons. Choose two types of weapons to be your kensei weapons: one melee weapon and one ranged weapon. Each of these weapons can be any simple or martial weapon that lacks the heavy and special properties. The longbow is also a valid choice. You gain proficiency with these weapons if you don’t already have it. Weapons of the chosen types are monk weapons for you. Many of this tradition’s features work only with your kensei weapons.

When you reach 6th, 11th, and 17th level in this class, you can choose another type of weapon — either melee or ranged — to be a kensei weapon for you, following the criteria above.

Way of the Brush. You gain proficiency with your choice of calligrapher’s supplies or painter’s supplies.

Kensei's Technique

When you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you learn techniques fueled by special dice called superiority dice.

Technique. You learn two techniques of your choice, which are detailed under “Techniques” below. Many technique enhance an attack in some way. You can use only one technique per attack.

You learn one additional technique of your choice at 6th, 11th, and 17th level. Each time you learn new technique, you can also replace one maneuver you know with a different one.

Superiority Dice. You have four superiority dice, which are d8s. A superiority die is expended when you use it. You regain all of your expended superiority dice when you finish a short or long rest.

You gain another superiority die at 6th level and one more at 11th level.

Saving Throws. Some of your technique require your target to make a saving throw to resist the maneuver’s effects. The saving throw DC is calculated as follows:

Maneuver save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Dexterity modifier

One with the Blade

At 6th level, you hone your accuracy, focusing on striking exposed pressure points with your blades as you do with your fists. Your attacks with your kensei weapons count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Improved Technique

At 11th level, you push yourself beyond normal limits. As a bonus action, you can expend 1 exertion to regain 1 used superiority die. In addition, your superiority dice become d10s instead of d8s.

Unerring Accuracy

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

Shadow Arts

Starting when you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you learn the subtle arts of subterfuge. You gain proficiency in Thieves' Tools and can duplicate the effects of certain spells.

As an action and spending 2 exertion, you can cast Darkness, Darkvision, Pass Without Trace, or Silence, without providing material components.

Additionally, you gain the Minor Illusion cantrip if you don’t already know it. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Silent Strike

Starting when you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you know how to strike subtly and exploit a foe’s distraction. Once on your turn, you can deal extra damage to one creature you hit with an attack if you have advantage on the attack roll. The attack must use a monk weapon or an unarmed strike. The extra damage is equivalent to one roll of your martial arts die.

You don’t need advantage on the attack roll if another enemy of the target is within 5 feet of it, that enemy isn’t incapacitated, and you don’t have disadvantage on the attack roll.

Shadow Step

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

Cloak of Shadows

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

Opportunist

At 17th level, you can exploit a creature’s momentary distraction when it is hit by an attack. Once between turns when a creature within 5 feet of you is hit by an attack made by a creature other than you, you can use a reaction to make a melee attack against that creature.

Bonus Proficiencies

When you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you gain proficiency in the Performance skill if you don’t already have it. Your martial arts technique mixes combat training with the precision of a dancer and the antics of a jester. You also gain proficiency with brewer’s supplies if you don’t already have it.

Drunken Technique

At 3rd level, you learn how to twist and turn so quick, it beguiles your opponents. You can add your Wisdom modifier to your first unarmed strike roll each round.

In addition, if you make a melee attack against a creature, that creature can’t make opportunity attacks against you for the rest of your turn.

Tipsy Sway

Starting at 6th level, you can move in unexpected, swaying ways. When a creature misses you with a melee attack roll, you can use a reaction to cause that attack to hit one creature of your choice, other than the attacker, that you can see within 5 feet of you.

Drunkard’s Luck

Starting at 11th level, you always seem to get a lucky bounce at the right moment. When you make an ability check, an attack roll, or a saving throw and have disadvantage on the roll, you can spend 1 exertion to cancel the disadvantage for that roll.

Intoxicated Frenzy

At 17th level, you gain the ability to make an overwhelming number of attacks against a group of enemies. When you use your bonus action to make an unarmed strike, you can make one additional attack against each other creature within 5ft of you.

Ki

Starting when you take this tradition, your training allows you to harness the mystic energy of ki. Your access to this energy is represented by a number of ki points. You have a number of ki points equal to your monk level.

When you spend a ki point, it is unavailable until you finish a short or long rest, at the end of which you draw all of your expended ki back into yourself. You must spend at least 30 minutes of the rest meditating to regain your ki points.

Some of your ki features require your target to make a saving throw to resist the feature’s effects. The saving throw DC is calculated as follows:

Ki save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Wisdom modifier

Initiate of the Way

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

Disciple of the Elements

At 3rd level, you learn magical disciplines that harness the power of the four elements. A discipline requires you to spend ki points each time you use it. You learn one of the following Disciplines:

Fangs of the Fire Snake When you make an unarmed strike on your turn, you can spend 1 ki point to cause tendrils of flame to stretch out from your fists and feet. If the attack hits, it deals 1d10 bonus fire damage.

Fist of Unbroken Air You summon a swirling wind and concentrate it around your fist. When you make an unarmed strike on your turn, you can choose to strike out condensed bursts of air which stretch out beyond your normal reach. You can spend 1 ki point to increase the reach of the attack by 15ft. If the attack hits, you can force the target to make a Strength saving throw or be pushed back 15 feet or daze the target, halving its speed until the end of its next turn.

Water Whip When you make an unarmed strike on your turn, you can spend 1 ki point to create a whip of water that shoves and pulls a creature to unbalance it. Your unarmed strike forces a creature that you can see within 15 feet of you to make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes bludgeoning or slashing damage equal to your Wisdom modifier, and you can push it up to 10 feet in any direction of your choosing. On a successful save, the creature takes no damage, and you don’t push it.

Mountain Stance. When you use the Attack action on your turn, you can spend 1 ki point to mold the earth into stone projectiles. All unarmed strikes for that action as well as for the rest of your turn become ranged, with a short range of 30 feet and a long range of 90 feet, and the attacks deal bludgeoning or piercing damage.

Elemental Discipline

At 6th level, you learn 1 additional Discipline from the list available at 3rd level.

Additionally, you learn to harness the magic of the elementals, letting you cast certain spells.

Casting Elemental Spells. Some elemental disciplines allow you to cast spells. See chapter 10 of the Player’s Handbook for the general rules of spellcasting. To cast one of these spells, you use its casting time and other rules, but you don’t need to provide material components for it. When you cast a spell with a discipline, it is cast at the spell’s lowest level. You can spend additional ki points to increase the level of an elemental discipline spell that you cast, provided that the spell has an enhanced effect at a higher level, as burning hands does. The spell’s level increases by 1 for each additional ki point you spend. For example, if you are a 6th-level monk and use Sweeping Cinder Strike to cast burning hands, you can spend 3 ki points to cast it as a 3rd-level spell (the discipline’s base cost of 2 ki point plus 1).

The maximum number of ki points you can spend to cast a spell in this way (including its base ki point cost and any additional ki points you spend to increase its level) is determined by your monk level, as shown in the Spells and Ki Points table, unless the Disciple specifies otherwise.

Arms of the Astral Self

3rd-level Way of the Astral Self feature

Your openness to the universe allows you to summon a portion of your astral self. As a bonus action and spending 2 exertion, you can summon your astral self, which lasts for the next 10 minutes, and your astral self ends early if you are incapacitated or die.

When you use the bonus action to summon your astral self, you can summon the arms of your astral self. They appear as spectral arms that hover near your shoulders or surround your arms (your choice). You determine the arms’ appearance.

While you have the Arms of the Astral Self active, you gain the following benefits:

• You can use your Wisdom modifier in place of your Strength modifier when making Strength checks and Strength saving throws.
• You can use the spectral arms to make unarmed strikes.
• When you make an unarmed strike with the arms on your turn, your reach for it is 5 feet greater than normal.
• The unarmed strikes you make with the arms can use your Wisdom modifier in place of your Strength or Dexterity modifier for the attack and damage rolls, and their damage type is force.
• When you use this bonus action to summon your astral self, you may immediately make one unarmed strike.

Visage of the Astral Self

6th-level Way of the Astral Self feature

You can summon the visage of your astral self. Your astral self grows as your deepen your connection to the universe. When you summon your astral self, you can summon the visage of your astral self for the duration. The spectral visage covers your face like a helmet or mask. You determine its appearance.

While you have the Visage of the Astral Self active, you gain the following benefits.

Astral Sight. You can see normally in darkness, both magical and nonmagical, to a distance of 120 feet.

Wisdom of the Spirit. You have advantage on Wisdom (Insight) and Charisma (Intimidation) checks.

Word of the Spirit. When you speak, you can direct your words to a creature of your choice that you can see within 60 feet of you, making it so only that creature can hear you. Alternatively, you can amplify your voice so that all creatures within 600 feet can hear you.

Body of the Astral Self

11th-level Way of the Astral Self feature

Your astral self grows as your deepen your connection to the universe. When you summon your astral self, you can summon the body of your astral self for the duration. This spectral body covers your physical form like a suit of armor, connecting with the arms and visage. You determine its appearance.

While you have the Body of the Astral Self active, you gain the following benefits.

Armor of the Spirit. You gain a +2 bonus to Armor Class.

Deflect Energy. When you take acid, cold, fire, force, lightning, or thunder damage, you can use a reaction to deflect it. When you do so, the damage you take is reduced by 1d10 + your Wisdom modifier (minimum reduction of 1).

Awakened Astral Self

17th-level Way of the Astral Self feature

Your connection to your astral self is complete, allowing you to traverse the astral boundary, leaving your earthly body behind. You can cast the astral projection spell, without any material components, only targeting yourself. For the duration of this spell cast, all forms of your astral self are considered to be active. Once you do, you cannot do so again until you finish a long rest.

Additionally, whenever all aspects of your astral self are active, you gain one additional benefit:

Astral Barrage. Whenever you use the Extra Attack feature to attack twice, you can instead attack three times if all the attacks are made with your astral arms.

Merciful Mask

Radiant Sun Bolt

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

Whenever you make an unarmed strike, you can choose to covert that attack into a new special attack. This special attack is a ranged spell attack with a range of 30 feet. You are proficient with it, and you add your Dexterity modifier to its attack and damage rolls. Its damage is radiant, and its damage die is a d4. This die changes as you gain monk levels, as shown in the Martial Arts column of the Monk table.

Sun Shield

At 6th level, you gain the ability to surround yourself in restorative radiant flame. As an action, you can cause yourself to be engulfed in radiant flame until the start of your next turn. When you use this action, you can regain hit points equal to three times your monk level, and until the start of your next turn any creature that hits you with an attack takes radiant damage equal to 5 + your Wisdom modifier as the radiant flame lashes out against them.

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

Beacon of Sunlight

At 11th level, you become wreathed in a luminous, magical aura. You shed bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light for an additional 30 feet. You can extinguish or restore this light as a bonus action.

While the light shines, the range of your Radiant Sun Bolt is increased to 90ft.

Searing Sunburst

At 17th level, you gain the ability to create an orb of light that erupts into a devastating explosion. After you hit a target with your Radiant Sun Bolt, you can spend 3 exertion to cause the bolt to erupt into a sphere of radiant flame for a brief but deadly instant. Each creature in a 20-foot-radius sphere (excluding you) must succeed on a Constitution saving throw (DC of 8 + proficiency bonus + Wisdom modifier) or take 6d6 radiant damage on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one, in addition to the attack's normal effects. A creature doesn’t need to make the save if the creature is behind total cover that is opaque.