Warrior of Slashes

Harness supernatural speed to create slashes in the very air itself. Focuses on ranged attacks with the versatility of hand-to-hand combat.

Level 3: Slicing Air

Whenever you make an Unarmed Strike and take the Damage option, you can make a ranged attack roll as you shoot a slash of force from your fists, instead of the normal strike. When you do, the strike deals magical slashing damage instead of the normal damage type, and the attack has a normal range of 45 feet and a long range of 90 feet. Being within 5 feet of an enemy does not impose Disadvantage on this attack.

Level 11: Unconventional Slashes

You have gained the ability to create tremendous blasts of slashes flowing directly from your essence. As a Magic action, you can produce the effects of the Fireball (Spiderweb ground attack) or Lightning Bolt (Waffle slash) spells without components or expending a spell slot, with the following alterations:

Slashing Damage. The effects deal Slashing damage, instead of the usual damage type. 

Extra Damage. You add half your Monk level (rounded down) to the damage roll of the spell. 

Upcasting. When you use this feature, you can spend Focus Points to increase the effective level that the spell is cast at, at a rate of 1 Focus Points per spell level above 3. The maximum effective level you can cast the spell at is equal to 1 + your Monk level divided by 3 (rounded down). 

The spells use your Focus save DC. Once you use this feature, you can’t do so again until you finish a Short or Long Rest, or until you spend 3 Focus Points to use it again.

Level 6: Forceful Slashes

When you expend a Focus Point to use Patient Defense, you unleash a sudden radial slash of force that tears outward from your position.

Choose a number of creatures you can see within 10 feet of you equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1 creature). Each target must succeed on a Strength saving throw against your Focus save DC or be caught in the expanding cut, pushed up to 10 feet directly away from you and knocked Prone.

Level 17: Dismantling Field

Your body becomes a constant source of invisible, orbiting slashes—thin, impossible cuts that drift through the air around you like predatory fragments of space itself.

While this feature is active, a 30-foot emanation around you becomes saturated with these cursed slashes. Creatures that enter or start their turn in this area can sense pressure in the air, like countless blades waiting to move.

When you use your Deflect Attacks feature to reduce the damage of an attack made by a creature within this area, the incoming strike is met with a swarm of condensed slashing projectiles that tear back through its origin. The attacker takes Slashing damage equal to one roll of your Martial Arts die + your Wisdom modifier (minimum 1 damage).

If you spend a Focus Point to redirect the attack, the redirected target is also struck by a follow-up volley of these slashing projectiles. On a failed saving throw, they take the same Slashing damage in addition to the normal effects of Deflect Attacks, as the attack is essentially “returned” with added cuts layered into it.