Proficiencies

Armour: None
Weapons: Simple weapons, choose 1 martial weapon group
Tools: Choose one type of artisan's tools or one musical instrument
Defences: Wisdom and any 1 physical defence
Skills: Choose two from Acrobatics, Athletics, Endurance, History, Insight, Religion and Stealth

Equipment

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

• A weapon (if proficient)
• (a) a dungeoneer’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack
• 10 darts

Unarmoured Defense

Beginning at 1st level, while you are wearing no armour and not wielding a shield, you may choose to use your Wisdom defence to evade melee and ranged attacks.

Martial Arts

At 1st level, your practice of martial arts gives you mastery of combat styles that use unarmed strikes and monk weapons, which are shortswords and any simple melee weapons that don't have the two-handed or unwieldy property.

You gain the following benefits while you are unarmed or wielding only monk weapons and you aren't wearing armour or wielding a shield:

• You treat monk weapons as unarmed strikes. If the weapon's damage die is smaller than your unarmed strike damage die, use your unarmed strike damage die.
• You can use Dexterity instead of Strength for the attack and damage rolls of your unarmed strikes and for athletics checks to grapple, shove, trip or disarm.
• You learn Brawling Fighting Style.

At 5th level, you learn Brawling Mastery. Additionally, your unarmed strike damage die increases to a d8 at 9th level, d10 at 13th level and d12 at 17th level.

Ki

At 2nd level, your training allows you to harness the mystic energy of ki. Your access to this energy is represented by a number of ki points equal to your level + your Wisdom modifier.

You can spend these points to fuel various ki features. You start knowing three such features: Flurry of Blows, Patient Defense, and Step of the Wind. You learn more ki features as you gain levels in this class.

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:

Dedicated Weaponᵀ

At 2nd level, you train yourself to use a variety of weapons as monk weapons. Whenever you finish a short or long rest, you can touch one weapon, focus your ki on it, and then count that weapon as a monk weapon until you use this feature again.

The chosen weapon must meet these criteria:

• The weapon must be a simple or martial weapon.
• You must be proficient with it.
• It must lack the unwieldy and special properties.

Ki-Fueled Attackᵀ

At 3rd level, if you spend 1 ki point or more as part of your action on your turn, you can make one attack with an unarmed strike or a monk weapon as a bonus action before the end of the turn.

Way of the Four Elements