Base Class: Monk
The way of the dragon fist is an obscure monastery with origins in Legend. The story tells of a monastery on the peak of the highest mountain in the land. One day, a young dragon Ashtaroth came to the monastery claiming it and its people as its cattle. This was not the first time a dragon had came to claim this peak as its symbolic importance to dragon kind could not be understated. Previously the monks where able to repel the other dragons but not Ashtaroth. His scales where too thick and he laid waste to the mounts greatest warriors. Only, master Fu Ji was left. He asked the Ashtaroth to leave and his request was met with mocking. Tales say, Master Fu Ji unleashed his most devastating attacks and they did nothing to Ashtaroth. Shortly he was defeated and subjugated with the surviving people to be servants and cattle to Ashtaroth . Breeding programs were instituted. Ashtaroth named the peak Dragon Mount.
While others abandoned the way, Fu Ji trained his son in the way of the monks of Dragon Mount before the advent of Ashtaroth. One day when his son was trained he told him of how he failed to repel Ashtaroth and as his son he bore the responsibility of freeing the people of Dragon Mount. Legend says Fu Ji smuggled his son off Dragon Mount at the cost of his life.
For years, Fu Ji's son wandered the world learning and combining what he learned with the martial arts his father taught him. Slowly over time what he discovered was Chi, the mystical fusing of magical and spiritual energies. Many years later, stories say Fu Ji's son to dragon mount, he like his father before him asked Ashtaroth to leave. Ashtaroth mocked him knowing nothing had ever penetrated his scales.
Master Fu Ji's son began to focus and took up a stance. As his hands hands and feet moved in a rhythmic motion that looked like dancing energy begin to gather in his humble monk wrappings as they started to glow. His dance incorporated sigils, marked by sweeping motions in the air. Seeing something new Ashtaroth wasted no time and struck out at the puny human with a series of slashes that would have laid the mightiest warriors low, but magical runes flashed in the air, his blows where muted, and his adversary still stood. The monk traced the same sigil again and then added a second to it pointing to the dragon. Again Ashtaroth struck out his slashes striking true but muted by the power of flaring sigils. Seeing an opening the young monk sprung forward towards Ashtaroth's chest his first fist striking the dragons chest with a booming sound breaking the dragons scales near the impact location sending a shockwave throughout dragon mount. In the blink of an eye his second fist struck and green flames seared throughout the cracks in Ashtaroth's scales. Ashtaroth stumbled backward clutching his chest. Injured for the first time, nearly to the point of death, Ashtaroth threatened the young monk and retreated to the sky.
No one knows where Dragon Mount is or even if the legends are true but some say that the Chi Warriors from Dragon Mount will come to the aid of peoples terrorized by Draconic oppression.
Chi Warrior
Starting when you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you can manipulate Chi gaining the following features:
- Chi capacity - you have a chi capacity equal to your monk level.
- Chi wraps - strips of special cloth wrap your body and serve as a focus of your chi energies allowing you to wield chi. While wrapped your appendages are considered simple melee weapons with the finesse property.(booming blade and green flame blade work with these weapons.) If they are destroyed you loose these ability till they are replaced.
- Chi generation- As an action on your turn you can generate one Chi as you concentrate on funneling magical and spiritual energy into your wraps. You loose concentration when you fail a concentration check or wield a weapon. Once concentration is lost you will loose all Chi at the end of your next turn if it is unused. You can generate more Chi while you have Chi in your wraps if you cast a spell or spend ki.
- Chi Cantrips - You may choose two of the cantrips on the Chi Warrior list: Blade Ward, True Strike, Booming Blade, Green Flame Blade.
- Ki Quickened Spellcasting - You may cast Chi Warrior cantrips as a bonus action at the cost of 1 ki.
- Chi empowered martial arts - when you wield no weapon and your chi wraps are intact, your martial arts dies is two die faces higher than your normal progression. Ex 1d4->1d6. In addition, when you hit with an attack you may spend any amount of chi to roll your martial arts die that many times and do additional force damage equal to the roll.
Mystical Defenses
At 6th level, you gain the ability to cast Shield or Adsorb Elements Proficiency Bonus times a long rest. In addition, you may cast these again when you are out of uses at the cost of 1 ki.
Standing Still
Beginning at 11th level, you may choose to be immobile when you activate your ability to gather Chi as an additional cost. When you do you gather twice as much Chi when you gain chi from any source until your concentration breaks. Moving also willing movement also breaks concentration when the additional cost is paid. In addition, the first time you use an ability that requires Ki until your next turn, it costs one less ki instead. Note if this reduces the Ki cost to zero, expending zero ki does not generate Chi.
Dragon Fist Combination
At 17th level, when you hit an enemy with a booming blade attack and spend all your Chi to empower your strike, then if you hit the same enemy with a green flame blade attack you may empower that attack by spending Ki up to the amount of Chi you spent on the booming blade attack. For each ki spent roll an additional martial arts die of force damage.







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