Monastic Tradition

At 3rd level, a monk gains the Monastic Tradition feature. The following Way of the Moon Soul option is available to a monk, in addition to those normally offered.

 

Fist of the New Moon

Starting when you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you can catch enemies off guard with a powerful opening strike. Whenever you hit a creature that hasn’t taken a turn in combat yet with one of the attacks granted by your Flurry of Blows, the first hit you score using it against that creature is a critical hit.

Crescent Kick

At 6th level, your powerful opening strikes can be used to expose your enemy to the rest of your attacks. When you use the Attack action with an unarmed strike or monk weapon on your turn against a creature within 5 feet of you, you can spend 1 ki point to give yourself advantage against that creature until the end of your turn.

Full Moon Strike

At 11th level, if you move at least 10 feet straight toward a target and then hit it with an unarmed strike or monk weapon on the same turn, you can spend 1 ki point to have the target take an extra 1d10 damage from the attack.

You can increase the strike’s damage by spending ki points. Each point you spend increases the damage by 1d10. The maximum number of ki points (the first 1 plus the additional points) that you can spend on the feature is 6.

You can use this feature only once on each of your turns.

Lunar Eclipse

At 17th level, when a creature targets you with an attack, as a reaction you can mark that target. While the target is marked, you have a +2 bonus to your AC, attack rolls, and damage rolls against that target. The target remains marked for 24 hours, until it dies, you are incapacitated, or you mark another creature using this feature.