Base Class: Monk
The Way of Sacrifice teaches its students to put others before themselves and the world before their dreams. Acolytes of this path learn how to overuse and drain the power of their ki in the cost of hurting themselves in the process. Many that follow this path have been known to accidentally kill themselves in training from the toll it put on their very life force, or sacrifice themselves to protect others and defeat powerful foes in combat.
Above all else, the Way of Sacrifice is a perspective on the world that completely ignores a follower's own needs for the sake of all life. Masters of this tradition even abandon many of their spiritual needs, not allowing themselves to find enlightenment or achieve inner peace, so that they may be reincarnated and sacrifice again in their next lives.
Sacrifice to Strike
Starting when you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you can find opportunities to strike when your enemies strike you. Whenever a creature deals damage to you while you are in melee range, you may use a ki point to use flurry of blows as a reaction against that creature.
Violate Ki
At 6th level, you can use your ki beyond safe boundaries. If you are out of ki points, you can still use your ki empowered features by taking 1d12 points of force damage per replaced ki point (this damage cannot be reduced or prevented in any way). In addition, you may further enhance your ki empowered features by using more ki than normal. Whenever you use a flurry of blows, you may spend an additional 2 ki points to give those unarmed strikes advantage on the attack, and whenever you use stunning strike you may spend an additional ki point to give the affected creature disadvantage on the save.
Forget Pain
By 11th level, your body empowers itself with hysterical strength when you are in danger. If you are out of ki points or are currently below half of your hit point maximum, you may add your proficiency to all of your monk weapon and unarmed strike damage rolls.
Resilient Soul
At 17th level, your body has changed from the overuse of your ki. Whenever you use a ki point, but not when you replace one, you gain temporary hit points equal to your Wisdom modifier multiplied times the number of ki points you used on that feature (remember that temporary hit points do not stack, so using multiple ki point features in a turn will not increase your temp hp any higher).
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