I plan on making a bender class that's able to manipulate the a element of the players choice but I'm having trouble thinking of a way the bending would work, should I make them a spellcaster I feel like doing this would limit what you could do and I don't want to homebrew spells for every bending ability. Another possibility that crossed my mind was the use of ki points to activate features but I don't really want to call them ki points so they feel separate from monk, do y'all have any ideas on how this would work if so please help. I'll start sharing the class features and such in this thread after I start.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AFzBQYqrvZ9QxL8MSEc7jtXo_5JoZgGNDEWYmO5YhAs/edit?usp=drivesdk here's a link to the document where I'm working on it if your able to edit it tell me then please don't ill edit your access when you enter

I can save you the trouble, I've already made an elemental-bender monk: https://www.dndbeyond.com/subclasses/1005611-elemental-bender

Any chance you can give me access? or make it public <3

I've made an elemental monk as well, maybe it can give you some ideas. It's public and in my sig as Way of the Elements.