Blade Dancer

This class was inspired by Irelia, a League of Legends champion. I thought it would be cool to have a monk class that could manipulate Ki in a different way, rather than attacking with extra attacks or stunning. Rather being able to channel and use it to levitate daggers, or by DM choosing, other weapons if desired. I felt like daggers would not be too powerful and balance by adding the use of more later on. A work in progress with a DM friend of mine to see how well it may work in actual play.

Blade Dance

Starting when you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you learn to manipulate your ki to levitate and control 3 daggers within the space around you.

You can use your bonus action to invoke your dance, which lasts for 1 minute. It ends early if you are incapacitated, if you don 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 dance 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.
• You have advantage on Dexterity (Acrobatics) checks.
• Your attack range is increased to 10 feet.
• Your melee attacks use all active daggers for each attack, rolling to hit for each individual dagger.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency modifier. You regain all expended uses of it when you finish a short or long rest.

Lethal Blade Style

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

• Bladesurge. 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.

• Ion Surge. When you hit another creature with a melee weapon attack, you can spend 1 ki point to empowered this attack, healing you equal to your Wisdom modifier.

• Equilibrium Surge. When you hit another creature with a melee weapon attack, you can spend 1 ki point to empowered this attack, slowing the target, reducing its speed by (5 time your Wisdom modifier) feet.

You can only add one of these effects per attack.

Fluidity

Beginning at 11th level, when you invoke your blade dance you can manipulate 3 additional daggers, for a total of 6.

Ionian Expertise

At 17th level, you gain the ability to spend 4 ki points to activate all of your Ionian style buffs to a single attack.