Way of Meditation

The way of meditation provides you with long lasting benefits in exchange for your patience and time. You lose the effects of any meditations listed below after taking a short or long rest.

Basic Martial Meditations

Your time in monasteries have given you exemplary skills in meditation as well as martial arts. Meditating in this superior manner for 1 minute can boost your abilities for 1 hour in a variety of ways. Meditation forms cannot be used together, starting a second form will end the effects of the first. 

Meditation of life: gain 2 x (monk level) in temporary hit points

Meditation of pain: boosts all damage from unarmed strikes or monk weapons by +1

Meditation of armor: when you are attacked you may use your reaction to add your wisdom modifier to your AC, possibly making it miss, this effect lasts for the rest of the round

Meditation of confusion: You gain the benefits of the mirror image spell for 1 hour.

Meditation of Sight

Your mastery of meditation has granted you the ability to increase your awareness to supernatural levels. If you spend one minute meditating you may gain the benefit of one of the following divination spells. You do not need to expend ki points. You may have the effects of a basic meditation and a meditation of sight concurrently, but you may not have two meditation of sights at once. You may use this feature a number of times equal to your wisdom modifier per long rest. All save DCs are 8 + proficiency + WIS

At level 6: see invisibility, locate object, detect thoughts, detect magic

At level 11: locate creature, scrying, true seeing

Advanced Martial Meditations

Your skill in meditation increases and grants you access to more powerful benefits. You may spend 5 ki points to meditate for 1 minute to gain one of the benefits below. You may only have the benefits of one martial meditation at a time, but you may have the effects of a martial meditation and a 

Meditation of Speed: you gain the benefits of the haste spell for 1 minute (you must maintain concentration). You may activate this effect at any point within 1 hour of finishing your meditation.

Meditation of Impact: when you take the attack action you may forgo your regular two attacks opting instead for one powerful palm strike. This strike create a shock wave 5 ft wide and 50 ft long, any creature in this wave must make a constitution saving throw (8 + proficiency + WIS) or take 5d6 force damage and be pushed back 5 ft. On a successful save a creature takes half damage and is not pushed. You may not use your bonus action unarmed strike or flurry of blows following this attack. 

Meditation of Disappearance: you gain the benefits of the greater invisibility spell for 1 minute (you must maintain concentration). You may activate this effect at any point within 1 hour of finishing your meditation.

Meditation of Assurance: you may use your reaction to impose disadvantage on any saving throw a creature makes within 5 ft of you. 

 

 

Meditation of Foresight

Meditating for 1 hour and spending 7 ki points grants you the benefit of the foresight spell for eight hours. No concentration needed.