Warrior of Balance

Warriors of Balance gain a fundamental understanding that reality is stranger than fiction, and that the outcomes of any decision can be surprising. They learn to take unexpected outcomes in stride, and instead harness them to subtly influence causality.

Level 3: Duality

At the start of your turn, you can expend 1 Focus Point to enter Duality Mode for 10 minutes, and gain the following benefits:

Yin. When making a D20 Test, you may roll your Yin dice instead of the d20. Your Yin dice is indicated by the table below.

Yang. When making a D20 Test with your Yin dice, you may remove one of the rolled Yin dice, subtract the rolled value from the total, and store the value as a Yang die. The total number of Yang dice you may store at once is indicated by the table below.

Yin and Yang Dice

Monk Level	Yin Dice	Total Yang Dice
3	2D10	3
6	2D6, D8	5
11	2D6, 2D4	7
17	5D4	9

 

Furthermore, gain the following benefits, even if not in Duality Mode:

Yin and Yang. When making a D20 test, you may expend any number of stored Yang dice and add it to the roll. If you are making an attack roll, if the addition of Yang dice would raise the roll to 20 or above, prior to other modifications, the attack roll is considered a Critical Hit.

As as an Action, you can expend 2 Focus Points to roll your Yin dice, and store any number of them as Yang dice.

Level 6: Inverted Strikes

You learn how to manipulate the opposing forces in the universe. You are Resistant to one of the damage types below. When you deal damage with an Unarmed Strike, you may choose to deal damage of its normal damage type, or the Resistance's opposing damage type.

When you have entered Duality Mode and you score a Critical Hit with an Unarmed Strike, deal additional damage of the chosen damage type, equal to the sum of your stored Yang dice. The Yang dice are not expended.

By expending 1 Focus Point as a Bonus Action, you can change the Resistance granted by this feature .

INVERTED STRIKES
RESISTANCE	DAMAGE TYPE
Bludgeoning	Force
Force	Bludgeoning
Radiant	Necrotic
Necrotic	Radiant
Fire	Cold
Cold	Fire

Bludgeoning Resistance

You are resistant to Bludgeoning damage and can deal Force damage.

Cold Resistance

You are resistant to Cold damage and can deal Fire damage.

Fire Resistance

You are resistant to Fire damage and can deal Cold damage.

Force Resistance

You are resistant to Force damage and can deal Bludgeoning damage.

Necrotic Resistance

You are resistant to Necrotic damage and can deal Radiant damage.

Radiant Resistance

You are resistant to Radiant damage and can deal Necrotic Damage.

Level 11: Superior Duality

When you roll Yin dice as part of a D20 test, you may remove up to two of the rolled Yin dice and store them as Yang dice.

In addition, when you roll Yin dice as part of a D20 Test, but before storing or expending any Yang dice, you know whether the current roll is a success or failure.

Level 11: Cosmic Inspiration

When you have entered Duality Mode and a creature you can see within 30 feet makes a D20 Test, you can take a Reaction to expend any number of stored Yang dice, and add it to their roll.

Level 17: Supreme Duality

When you expend Yang dice, you may reroll any number of the expended Yang dice and you must use the new roll(s).

Level 17: Empowered Inverted Strikes

When you score a Critical Hit and deal additional damage of the chosen damage type as part of the Inverted Strikes feature, the additional damage now equals to the sum of stored Yang dice, as if they had rolled their maximum values.