Base Class: Monk
Monks of the Furnace Heart learn to channel their own life energy into scorching bolts of plasma. They teach that meditation can unlock the ability to unleash the indomitable light shed by the soul of every living creature. (This subclass is a variant of the Way of the Sun Soul)
Burning Plasma Bolt
Starting when you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you can hurl searing bolts of magical plasma.
You gain a new attack option that you can use with the Attack action. 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.
When you take the Attack action on your turn and use this special attack as part of it, you can spend 1 ki point to make the special attack twice as a bonus action.
When you gain the Extra Attack feature, this special attack can be used for any of the attacks you make as part of the Attack action.
Soul Furnace
Also at 3rd level, your ability to channel radiant power causes your body to glow. You shed bright light in a 10-foot radius and dim light for an additional 10 feet. You can extinguish or restore the light as a bonus action.
When you reach 11th level, you can choose to shed bright light in a 30-foot radius and dim light for an additional 30 feet instead.
Scorching Technique
At 6th level, you learn to further generate heat and light. You learn the following techniques:
Burning Stride. Whenever you use your Step of the Wind feature, your rapid stride generates scorching heat. Until the end of your turn, when you move within 5 feet of a creature or an object that isn’t being worn or carried, it takes fire damage equal to a roll of your martial arts die. A creature or object can take this damage only once during a turn. You can choose for a creature or object to be unaffected by this feature.
Searing Blast. As a bonus action, you can expend 2 ki points to create a 5-foot-wide, 30-foot-long line or 15-foot-cone (your choice) of radiant flames from your extended fingertips. Each creature in the affected area must make a Constitution saving throw against your ki save DC or take 3d8 radiant damage and become blinded until the end of your next turn. Creatures who succeed on their saving throw take half as much damage and aren't blinded.
Burning Shield. Whenever you use your Patient Defense feature, any creature who hits you with a melee attack before the start of your next turn takes radiant damage equal to your martial arts die.
Unbearable Heat
By 11th level, you have become so adept at channeling energy, you can easily vent it when it is directed at you. You gain the following benefits:
Deflect Energy. When you take acid, cold, fire, lightning or thunder damage, you can use your reaction to deflect it. When you do so, the damage you take is reduced by 1d10 + your Wisdom modifier.
Fireproof Heart. You become resistant to radiant damage.
Searing Explosion. Whenever you use your Searing Blast feature, you can choose to target a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on a point you can see within 150 feet. Also, you can increase the damage dealt by your Searing Blast feature by spending ki points. Each point you spend, up to a maximum of 3, increases the damage by 2d8. You must choose to spend these ki points before knowing the result of any affected creature's saving throw.
Smoldering Shield
At 17th level, your ability to channel radiant energy is unparalleled. Once per turn, you can deal additional radiant damage equal to a roll of your martial arts die when you make an unarmed strike on your turn. You can also choose not to deal this additional damage and instead grant yourself temporary hit points equal to the amount rolled. If a creature hits you with an attack while you have these temporary hit points, they take radiant damage equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1).
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