At 1st level, your practice of martial arts gives you mastery of combat styles that use unarmed strikes and monk weapons, which are shortswords, any simple melee weapons that don't have the special or heavy property, or your dedicated weapon.
You gain the following benefits while you are unarmed or wielding only monk weapons and you aren't wearing armor, wielding a shield, or using the blade song feature:
- You can use Dexterity instead of Strength for athletics checks, and attack and damage rolls of your unarmed strikes and monk weapons.
- You can roll a d4 in place of the normal damage of your unarmed strike or monk weapon. This die changes as you gain monk levels, as shown in the Martial Arts column of the Monk table.
- You can make one unarmed strike as a bonus action.
- If your monk weapon has a smaller hit die than your martial arts die, you may use your martial arts die instead.
Monk |
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Level |
Proficiency Bonus |
Martial Arts |
Ki Points |
Unarmored Movement |
Features |
1st |
+2 |
1d4 |
– |
– |
Unarmored Defense, Martial Arts,Dedicated Weapon |
2nd |
+2 |
1d4 |
4 |
+10 ft. |
Ki, Unarmored Movement |
3rd |
+2 |
1d4 |
5 |
+10 ft. |
Monastic Tradition, Deflect Attack. Robust Body |
4th |
+2 |
1d4 |
6 |
+10 ft. |
Ability Score Improvement, Slow Fall,Stronger Healing |
5th |
+3 |
1d6 |
8 |
+15 ft. |
Extra Attack, Stunning Strike, Focused aim |
6th |
+3 |
1d6 |
9 |
+15 ft. |
Ki-Empowered Strikes,
|
7th |
+3 |
1d6 |
10 |
+15 ft. |
Evasion, Unwavering |
8th |
+3 |
1d8 |
11 |
+20 ft. |
Ability Score Improvement |
9th |
+4 |
1d8 |
13 |
+20 ft. |
Unarmored Movement Improvement, |
10th |
+4 |
1d8 |
14 |
+20 ft. |
Immaculate Body, Ability Score Improvement |
11th |
+4 |
1d10 |
15 |
+25 ft. |
Monastic Tradition feature,Improved Dedicated Weapon |
12th |
+4 |
1d10 |
16 |
+25 ft. |
Ability Score Improvement |
13th |
+5 |
1d10 |
18 |
+25 ft. |
Tongue of Sun and Moon |
14th |
+5 |
1d10 |
19 |
+30 ft. |
Calm Mind |
15th |
+5 |
1d10 |
20 |
+30 ft. |
Perfect Self, Timeless Body |
16th |
+5 |
1d10 |
21 |
+30 ft. |
Ability Score Improvement |
17th |
+6 |
1d12 |
23 |
+35 ft. |
Monastic Tradition feature |
18th |
+6 |
1d12 |
24 |
+35 ft. |
Empty Body |
19th |
+6 |
1d12 |
25 |
+35 ft. |
Ability Score Improvement |
20th |
+6 |
1d12 |
26 |
+40 ft. |
Ki Master |
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