Way of the Flowing Blade

Way of the Flowing Blade

Starting when you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you learn to manipulate your ki to levitate and control 3 daggers. You must attune to them. It takes one hour to attune up to three daggers in this way.When attuned to your daggers in this way they are called “flow blades”. These daggers flow with your movements and attacks as if they were an extension of you. When you are in your blade flow the only weapons you can use are your flow blades. Bonus attacks use half your flow blades, rounded down. You can use your bonus action to invoke your flow, which lasts for thirty seconds. It ends early if you are incapacitated, if you are wearing medium or heavy armor or a shield, or if you use two hands to make an attack with a weapon. You can also dismiss the blade flow at any time you choose (no action required). 

While your blade dance is active, you gain the following benefits:

• Your walking speed increases by 10 feet.
• Your melee attack range is increased to 10 feet.
• Your melee attacks use all active daggers for each attack, rolling to hit for each individual dagger. When you attack In this way you can only target one person per action/bonus action.

 

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You can use your bonus action to invoke your flow, which lasts for thirty seconds. It ends early if you are incapacitated, if you are wearing medium or heavy armor or a shield, or if you use two hands to make an attack with a weapon. You can also dismiss the blade flow at any time you choose (no action required). 

While your blade dance is active, you gain the following benefits:

• Your walking speed increases by 10 feet.
• Your melee attack range is increased to 10 feet
• Your melee attacks use all active daggers for each attack, rolling to hit for each individual dagger.

 When attuned to your daggers in this way they are called “flow blades”. When you are in your blade flow the only weapons you can use are your flow blades. Bonus attacks use half your flow blades, rounded down.

 

Blade flow

At 6th level, you choose one of two flow styles: flow sniper or blade wielder.

 

blade wielder

At 6th level, you gain the ability to spend ki to empower your melee strikes during your blade flow. You can spend ki to use one of the following effects:

• Slashing flow. After an attack roll but Before a melee attack, you can spend 2 ki points to empowered this attack, rolling a d10 in place of a d4.
• Healing flow. When you hit another creature with a melee weapon attack, you can draw your opponents ki to yourself. You heal twice the amount of ki spend.

Also while using blade flow you also gain this following benefit:

• gain +1 on Dexterity (Acrobatics) checks.

You can only add one of these effects per attack.

 

At 11th level, you can attune to three more daggers. You now control up to six in this way. You also gain another ability:

• Shielding movements. You arrange your flow blades in a way to ward off incoming blows from any physical melee attack. you can spend your action to prepare yourself, three times before your next turn, if someone attacks you, before the damage roll, you can 3 ki points to half the damage.

 

At 17th level, you can now split up your dagger attacks in to any way you want. All your flow blades now count as +1 weapons. You now gain +1 on all Dex checks.

 

flow sniper

At 6th level you learn to extend the range of your melee attack when using your flow, making every strike count. You can spend ki to use one of the following effects:

• Equilibrium Surge. When you hit another creature with a weapon attack, you can spend 1 ki point to empowered this attack, slowing the target, reducing its speed by (5 times your Wisdom modifier) feet.
• Following strike. When you hit an enemy, you can spend 1 ki point to make it your target. You know the general position of where the target is within 60ft of you for 1 minute. You can’t have more than one target at a time.

Also while using blade flow you also gain this following benefit:

• Extended Range. Your melee Attack range increases a number of squares equal to your half your monk level rounded down. Also if you use the range attack with your flow blades, they return to you before your next turn. You can’t use any effects on ranged attacks.

You can only add one of these effects per attack.

You can now use two flow blades for bonus attacks instead of one.

 

At 11th level your precision becomes so accurate you rarely miss, you can spend 1 ki point to gain advantage on your next attack roll. You also gain another ability:

• Piercing flow. When you hit another creature with a melee weapon attack, you can spend 1 ki point to empowered this attack, dealing extra damage equal to your Wisdom modifier.

 

At 17th level before or after your attack, you can spend 2 ki to teleport within 5ft of your target. The target can’t take reactions against you until it’s turn. Also you can now spend 3 ki points to attack and not reveal yourself, this includes staying invisible.You can now spend 2 ki points plus the cost of two effects you want to add to a flow blade attack.

 

that was the full class description

Blade flow

You can use your bonus action to invoke your flow, which lasts for thirty seconds. It ends early if you are incapacitated, if you are wearing medium or heavy armor or a shield, or if you use two hands to make an attack with a weapon. You can also dismiss the blade flow at any time you choose (no action required). 

While your blade dance is active, you gain the following benefits:

• Your walking speed increases by 10 feet.
• Your melee attack range is increased to 10 feet
• Your melee attacks use all active daggers for each attack, rolling to hit for each individual dagger.

 When attuned to your daggers in this way they are called “flow blades”. When you are in your blade flow the only weapons you can use are your flow blades. Bonus attacks use half your flow blades, rounded down.

blade wielder

blade wielder

At 6th level, you gain the ability to spend ki to empower your melee strikes during your blade flow. You can spend ki to use one of the following effects:

• Slashing flow. After an attack roll but Before a melee attack, you can spend 2 ki points to empowered this attack, rolling a d10 in place of a d4.
• Healing flow. When you hit another creature with a melee weapon attack, you can draw your opponents ki to yourself. You heal twice the amount of ki spend.

You can only add one of these effects per attack.

Also while using blade flow you also gain the following benefits:

• gain +1 on Dexterity (Acrobatics) checks.
• your flow blades now count as magical, for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks

11th level Blade wielder

At 11th level, you can attune to three more daggers. You now control up to six in this way. You also gain another ability:

• Shielding movements. You arrange your flow blades in a way to ward off incoming blows from any physical melee attack. you can spend your action to prepare yourself, three times before your next turn, if someone attacks you, before the damage roll, you can 3 ki points to half the damage.

17th level Blade Wielder

At 17th level, now, when you are attuned to a dagger, it now counts as +1 weapons. You now gain +1 on all Dex checks.

You gain the following effects:

• Flowing pin. Right after three simultaneous attacks (no effects can be added) on a creature, You can spend 2 ki points to use those three flow blades to pin your opponent to a wall or to the ground if they are in 5ft of one. On there turn, escaping on a successful Dex or Str check equal to your ki save DC, taking 2d6 piercing damage on a failed save, they can repeat this save every turn. While pinned the creature is considered restrained.Your cannot attack the creature while pinned in this way.

During your blade flow you can now attack a meany creatures as you have flow blades.