Way of Surrounded Awareness

Monks of the Way of Surrounded Awareness learned to observe and manipulate their surrounding environment. They learn style of alley brawling by observing the streets folk. By practicing fighting in an everchanging surroundings and combining the use of “dirty tricks” they ensured themselves to never be fully cornered and never unprepared.

Street Rat

3rd-level Way of Surrounded Awareness feature

Choose one of your Wisdom based skill proficiencies. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses the chosen skill.

In addition, you gain proficiency with one artisan’s tool kit of your choice.

Unprepared Arsenal

3rd-level Way of Surrounded Awareness feature

You gain proficiency with improvised weapons.

 You can use your Dexterity modifier for attack/damage delt with an improvised weapon, the damage of the weapon is equal to your Martial Arts die.

As a bonus action you can spend 1 ki point to search for a weapon on an d100 improvised weapons table.

If you use a bonus action to search for a different weapon, your previous weapon will be dropped.

Different weapons have different properties correlated to them:

- Heavy: After a successful attack you can push an enemy 10ft away from you.

- Light: Once per turn you can make one additional attack as a part of your action.

- Throwing: Gives you range 30/60.

- Reach: Your reach is 10ft. After a successful attack you can pull an enemy 5ft towards you and make them fall prone.

- Blinding: Can’t be used as a weapon. Once per turn instead of one of your attacks you can force one enemy within 5 feet of you make a Dexterity saving throw, on a failed save an opponent will be blinded till the end of your next turn.

Not Unfamiliar Surroundings

6th-level Way of Surrounded Awareness feature

Your improvised weapons are now counts as a magical weapon for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

As a bonus action, or as part of the bonus action you take to search for a weapon, you can spend 1 ki point to infuse additional special abilities based on its correlated properties:

- Heavy: You gain +1 to your Armor Class.

- Light: When an opponent within 5 feet of you misses an attack you can use your Reaction to make one attack with advantage against that opponent.

- Throwing: Your weapon can deal radiant/necrotic/poison/psychic or thunder damage instead.

- Reach: The enemy will provoke attack of opportunity when they enter your reach.

- Blinding: While blinded by your weapon an enemy cannot provoke attacks of opportunity on you.

Not Chosen But Found

11th-level Way of Surrounded Awareness feature

When hitting a critical hit with your improvised weapon you can add an additional damage die.

As a bonus action, or as part of the bonus action you take to search for a weapon, you can spend 1 to 3 additional ki points to add a +1 to +3 to your weapon attack/damage accordingly.

Stumbling Into Success

17th-level Way of Surrounded Awareness feature

Whenever you roll on the Improvised Weapons Table, you can roll twice, and choose your weapon. If both weapons have the same property, you can choose any weapon.

The area within 20 feet of you is considered to be a difficult terrain for any creature of your choosing.

Improvised Weapons Table

(Depending on the environment you can choose the appearance of your weapons):

d100	Improvised Weapons	Damage Type	Weapon’s Property
1-2	Plank	Bludgeoning	Heavy
3-4	Pair of Sticks	Bludgeoning or Piercing	Light
5-6	Tableware	Piercing	Throwing
7-8	Rope (with a hook at the end)	Bludgeoning or Slashing	Reach
9-10	Ragged Cloth	--	Blinding
11-12	Log	Bludgeoning	Heavy
13-14	Books	Bludgeoning	Light
15-16	Bones of an Animal	Piercing	Throwing
17-18	Stairs	Bludgeoning	Reach
19-20	Sand	--	Blinding
21-22	Broken Longword	Bludgeoning or Slashing	Heavy
23-24	Shoes	Bludgeoning	Light
25-26	Rocks	Bludgeoning	Throwing
27-28	Broom	Bludgeoning or Piercing	Reach
29-30	Spectacles	--	Blinding
31-32	Picture Frame	Bludgeoning or Slashing	Heavy
33-34	Bricks	Bludgeoning	Light
35-36	Coins	Bludgeoning or Slashing	Throwing
37-38	Shovel	Bludgeoning or Slashing	Reach
39-40	Broken Glass	--	Blinding
41-42	Box	Bludgeoning	Heavy
43-44	Dolls	Bludgeoning	Light
45-46	Cosmetic Kit	Slashing or Piercing	Throwing
47-48	Tree Branch	Bludgeoning	Reach
49-50	Ink Jar	--	Blinding
51-52	Big Vegetable	Bludgeoning	Heavy
53-54	Bottles	Slashing or Piercing	Light
55-56	Nails	Piercing	Throwing
57-58	Wooden Prosthetic Limb	Bludgeoning	Reach
59-60	Bouquet of Flowers	--	Blinding
61-62	Filled Bag	Bludgeoning	Heavy
63-64	Petrified Rodents	Bludgeoning	Light
65-66	Vegetables	Bludgeoning	Throwing
67-68	Dirty Cape	Bludgeoning	Reach
69-70	Bag of Fine Dust	--	Blinding
71-72	Broken Wheel	Bludgeoning	Heavy
73-74	Bones of a Large Animal	Bludgeoning or Piercing	Light
75-76	Deck of Very Sharp Playing Cards	Slashing	Throwing
77-78	A Belt	Bludgeoning	Reach
79-80	A Hat	--	Blinding
81-82	Broken Statue	Bludgeoning	Heavy
83-84	Musical Instruments	Bludgeoning	Light
85-86	Playing Ball (Goes back after attack)	Bludgeoning	Throwing
87-88	A Broken Bow/Heavy Crossbow	Bludgeoning or Piercing	Reach
89-90	Pickled Jar	--	Blinding
91-92	Encyclopedia	Bludgeoning	Heavy
93-94	Statuettes	Bludgeoning	Light
95-96	Toys	Bludgeoning	Throwing
97-98	Backpack	Bludgeoning	Reach
99-00	Jewelry	--	Blinding