The Way of the Ki Warrior is a unique and versatile Monastic tradition, that harnesses the power of ki in a harmonious blend of martial prowess and spiritual energy. These warriors have mastered the art of channeling their inner ki into devastating strikes, incredible maneuvers, and heightened physical attributes. They are adepts of both the body and mind, achieving unparalleled combat prowess through their rigorous training and deep understanding of the ki.
As a practitioner of the Way of the Ki Warrior, you embody disciplined resilience and swift grace. By using ki as a catalyst, you tap into an extraordinary range of abilities that surpass mortal limitations. Your combat techniques are infused with raw energy, allowing you to deflect attacks, strike with blinding speed, and perform stunning acrobatic movements.
Shield of Ki
You can expend a ki point to gain a temporary +2 bonus to your armour class. You can expend more than one ki point, with each ki point you expend, you gain this effect for 1 minute.
Banishing Ki
At 7th level, your ki energy becomes stronger. As an action, can attempt to grapple a creature of your size or smaller, and expend 5 ki points to cause the creature to be under the effect of a banishment spell.
Empowered Strike
Your unarmed strikes deal an extra 1d6 radiant damage.
Draconic Essence
As a Bonus action,my oh can spend 15 ki points to enter Draconic form for one minute. In tbis form, you gain a flying speed equal to twice your walking speed, and can understand all spoken languages. Your strikes deal an extra 1d12 force damage, but can only be used once per turn. The dragon you are consumed of, has no defined hit-points or armour class, and if it takes damage,muon take damage. It has the same immunities and resistances as you. You can also let off a fearsome roar, with every hostile creature having to make a Charisma saving throw (DC your character level), or be frightened during this time. Upon exiting this form, you gain two levels of exhaustion.
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DM: “Who’s your patron?”
Warlock: “Ummm”
DM: “Hurry Up”
Warlock: “yOu”
*All other players look at each other with utter fear*
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It seems pretty well balanced, but I struggle a bit with the theme for this subclass. The description feels like it's not really describing any particular martial art... literally every Monk subclass can accurately be described as a "Ki Warrior", and I also don't really see how that all adds up to a Dragon transformation at the end.
For your Shield of Ki... is it an action? A bonus action? A free action?
For Banishing Ki, making the trigger a grapple check is a terrible idea. That basically forces an Athletics check, and Athletics keys off of STR, not DEX, so unless you're playing a STR-based monk, the numbers aren't in your favor. On top of that, to resist a Grapple check the target gets to choose if they use Athletics or Acrobatics, so they'll always be able to resist with whichever stat the target has highest. Honestly... just give them the Banishment spell outright. Maybe change it to a range of Touch, but otherwise at a cost of 5 Ki points it's balanced enough.
For your Draconic essence, there's really no need to include the information about the dragon not having hit points or armor... nothing about the feature says that you summon a new dragon or anything, just that you gain draconic powers. Assuming this is meant to be your 17th level feature, I don't think it's powerful enough to justify the two levels of exhaustion at the end.
Thankyou for your feedback. I have made the following changes:
Renamed Subclass to ‘Way of Essence’, as in life force, yin and Yang. The subclass is designed to be basically a traditional Chinese warrior, who has increased ki abilities, more so than other monks.
Shield of Ki is now a bonus action
You now use an acrobatics check in place of the standard athletics check for grappling, when using the banishing ki feature
Two levels of exhaustion has now been dropped to just one in the Draconic essence feature.
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DM: “Who’s your patron?”
Warlock: “Ummm”
DM: “Hurry Up”
Warlock: “yOu”
*All other players look at each other with utter fear*
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I still don't fully understand why you're using a grapple check at all for the Banishing Ki feature... Monks already have their built-in Ki Save DC, so having one feature that uses a modified grapple check instead seems fairly arbitrary, especially if this is intended to be the subclass that focuses moreso than the others on Ki manipulation, yet the most impactful feature of the class ignores Ki to focus on physical grappling.
Thankyou for your feedback. I have made the following changes:
Renamed Subclass to ‘Way of Essence’, as in life force, yin and Yang. The subclass is designed to be basically a traditional Chinese warrior, who has increased ki abilities, more so than other monks.
Shield of Ki is now a bonus action
You now use your monk ki save DC in place of the standard acrobatics check for grappling, when using the banishing ki feature
Two levels of exhaustion has now been dropped to just one in the Draconic essence feature.
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
DM: “Who’s your patron?”
Warlock: “Ummm”
DM: “Hurry Up”
Warlock: “yOu”
*All other players look at each other with utter fear*
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The Way of the Ki Warrior is a unique and versatile Monastic tradition, that harnesses the power of ki in a harmonious blend of martial prowess and spiritual energy. These warriors have mastered the art of channeling their inner ki into devastating strikes, incredible maneuvers, and heightened physical attributes. They are adepts of both the body and mind, achieving unparalleled combat prowess through their rigorous training and deep understanding of the ki.
As a practitioner of the Way of the Ki Warrior, you embody disciplined resilience and swift grace. By using ki as a catalyst, you tap into an extraordinary range of abilities that surpass mortal limitations. Your combat techniques are infused with raw energy, allowing you to deflect attacks, strike with blinding speed, and perform stunning acrobatic movements.
Shield of Ki
You can expend a ki point to gain a temporary +2 bonus to your armour class. You can expend more than one ki point, with each ki point you expend, you gain this effect for 1 minute.
Banishing Ki
At 7th level, your ki energy becomes stronger. As an action, can attempt to grapple a creature of your size or smaller, and expend 5 ki points to cause the creature to be under the effect of a banishment spell.
Empowered Strike
Your unarmed strikes deal an extra 1d6 radiant damage.
Draconic Essence
As a Bonus action,my oh can spend 15 ki points to enter Draconic form for one minute. In tbis form, you gain a flying speed equal to twice your walking speed, and can understand all spoken languages. Your strikes deal an extra 1d12 force damage, but can only be used once per turn. The dragon you are consumed of, has no defined hit-points or armour class, and if it takes damage,muon take damage. It has the same immunities and resistances as you. You can also let off a fearsome roar, with every hostile creature having to make a Charisma saving throw (DC your character level), or be frightened during this time. Upon exiting this form, you gain two levels of exhaustion.
DM: “Who’s your patron?”
Warlock: “Ummm”
DM: “Hurry Up”
Warlock: “yOu”
*All other players look at each other with utter fear*
__________________________________________________________________________________
Check out my homebrew: My Homebrew
It seems pretty well balanced, but I struggle a bit with the theme for this subclass. The description feels like it's not really describing any particular martial art... literally every Monk subclass can accurately be described as a "Ki Warrior", and I also don't really see how that all adds up to a Dragon transformation at the end.
For your Shield of Ki... is it an action? A bonus action? A free action?
For Banishing Ki, making the trigger a grapple check is a terrible idea. That basically forces an Athletics check, and Athletics keys off of STR, not DEX, so unless you're playing a STR-based monk, the numbers aren't in your favor. On top of that, to resist a Grapple check the target gets to choose if they use Athletics or Acrobatics, so they'll always be able to resist with whichever stat the target has highest. Honestly... just give them the Banishment spell outright. Maybe change it to a range of Touch, but otherwise at a cost of 5 Ki points it's balanced enough.
For your Draconic essence, there's really no need to include the information about the dragon not having hit points or armor... nothing about the feature says that you summon a new dragon or anything, just that you gain draconic powers. Assuming this is meant to be your 17th level feature, I don't think it's powerful enough to justify the two levels of exhaustion at the end.
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Thankyou for your feedback. I have made the following changes:
DM: “Who’s your patron?”
Warlock: “Ummm”
DM: “Hurry Up”
Warlock: “yOu”
*All other players look at each other with utter fear*
__________________________________________________________________________________
Check out my homebrew: My Homebrew
I still don't fully understand why you're using a grapple check at all for the Banishing Ki feature... Monks already have their built-in Ki Save DC, so having one feature that uses a modified grapple check instead seems fairly arbitrary, especially if this is intended to be the subclass that focuses moreso than the others on Ki manipulation, yet the most impactful feature of the class ignores Ki to focus on physical grappling.
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DM: “Who’s your patron?”
Warlock: “Ummm”
DM: “Hurry Up”
Warlock: “yOu”
*All other players look at each other with utter fear*
__________________________________________________________________________________
Check out my homebrew: My Homebrew