The Way of the Sage Monk embodies the serene power and timeless wisdom of old masters. Trained in ancient martial traditions and guided by deep spiritual insight, the Sage Monk channels inner stillness into devastating precision. Their movements are deliberate, their strikes flowing like water, and their words carry the weight of enlightenment. In battle, they blend physical mastery with profound awareness, deflecting violence with grace and teaching even through combat. Whether wandering the world as a humble hermit or mentoring a new generation of warriors, the Sage Monk’s true weapon is not the blade—but the mind that wields it.

Level 3: Sage's Insight

Careful meditation has honed your mind and granted you keen wisdom. You gain the following benefits:

• You gain the guidance cantrip. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for this.
• When you meditate in peaceful stillness for ten minutes, you can spend a focus point to add the value of your wisdom modifier to all of your intelligence, charisma, and wisdom skill checks for up to one hour even if that modifier is already added to the roll. This effect ends if you end your meditation. 

Level 3: Moment of Clarity

When you use your patient defense feature as a bonus action, you can make a single unarmed attack as part of that action. 

Level 6: Tongue of the Sun and Moon

You learn to touch the energy of other minds so that you understand all spoken languages. Moreover, any creature that can understand a language can understand what you say.

Level 11: Teacher's Hand

You often correct your disciples' mistakes forcefully. Whenever a target misses you with an attack roll or deals zero damage as a result of your deflect attacks feature, you can deal force damage equal to one roll of your martial arts die plus your wisdom modifier to the target. This damage stacks with your deflect attacks feature, and the target can take this extra damage only once per turn.

Level 17: Perfect Form

Whenever you use your patient defense feature as a bonus action, you can now choose to either make a single unarmed attack or to spend a focus point to use your flurry of blows feature as part of that bonus action.