Way of Awakening

Ordinarily, individuals can use no more than around 20% of their body's full potential, the brain's way of protecting the individual from harming their body through overexertion. With training, individuals can learn to remove these limiters and achieve what monks of this monastery call an Awakening. These monks would rather have their body broken and shattered than not be able to protect or fight when needed the most. With each limit broken, individuals are given access to more and more of their body's potential, thus increasing their physical strength and stamina.

Awaken

3rd-level Way of Awakening feature

Your mastery of your ki lets you awaken your latent potential, breaking and shattering your bodies limits. As a bonus action, you can spend Ki to awaken your inner potential. For every 2 ki points you spend, you gain a +1 bonus to your attack and damage rolls using unarmed strikes and monk weapons. Once you use this feature, you gain these benefits for 1 minute or until you are knocked unconscious.. At any point during the minute you may use another bonus action to burn more Ki points and increase the benefits this state grants you.

At the end of the minute you become incapacitated for a number of rounds equal to half of the ki points you spent, rounding down.

Suffering Strike

3rd-level Way of Awakening feature

You can break your limits even without being awoken, and shatter them even further if you are. When you hit with a melee attack, you can expend up to three of your hit dice to deal additional damage to your target. Roll the hit dice you want to spend, dealing that much additional damage to both yourself and the target of your attack. If you are currently Awakened, this damage is doubled for both yourself and the target.

Enhanced Rest

6th-level Way of Awakening feature

Your intense nature can burn yourself out quickly, which is why you've gotten better at taking a breather. When you take a short rest, you regain 2 additional hit points for each hit die you spend.

Potential Unleashed

11th-level Way of Awakening feature

While Awakened, any feature which would expend Ki, other than adding to the Awaken feature, does not. However, for each Ki point you would normally expend you are Incapacitated for another round when you fall out of the Awakened state.

Even Further Beyond

17th-level Way of Awakening feature

When the time is right you know a method to increase your skills to a level which you know your body could never handle. When you spend at least 16 ki points when you first use your Awaken feature, you can choose to go even further beyond. Doing so increases the bonus to attack and damage rolls an amount equal to double your proficiency bonus, and triples your movement speed for the duration. However there are a few drawbacks. The duration only lasts for 3 rounds instead of a full minute, and instead of becoming Incapacitated you instantly die when this duration runs out.

The strain this form puts on your body is astronomical and can only be done once per long rest.