Base Class: Monk
"They may take your weapons, but they can never take your strength. They make take your freedom, but they can never take your honor. They may spit on you, or treat you like scum, but they can never take your wisdom. With strength and wisdom together, your soul can be steel, and though you may be imprisoned in the strongest shackles, you will never be controlled. These are the tenets of the way of the Steel Soul, and under them, you can free others and yourself."
-Kemoari, runway Goliath slave, founder of the Way of the Steel Soul
The way of the Steel Soul is devoted to being the strongest you can be, a army in a single man. It is about freedom but also practicing honor, founded by slaves and taken up by those who want to throw of the chains of tyrants, system, and even the Gods.
A master of the way has a body and mind like steel. Unmovable, and unbreakable.
Iron Body
At third level your body becomes like iron with the mastery of your soul, because of this you gain the following abilities.
- When you make a non strength saving you can choose to add your strength as well as the normal save bonus. You must finish a long rest before you can use this again
- If you spend one ki point you can roll your marshal arts die and add your wisdom. You add the total to your armor class, your next damage rolls or gain that many temporary hit points. This ability lasts one round
- Your muscles are like the steal in your soul, you have expertise in the Athletics skill, and you strength score can reach 20+your wisdom modifier.
Steel Deflection, Protecting The Weak
At sixth level you gain the ability to use your steel soul to protect yourself and others from physical attacks. When a creature within five feet of you makes a melee weapon attack you can spend 1 Ki point to use your reaction to reduce it by 1d10+monk level, if you reduce the damage to zero you can spend 1 more ki and make a melee attack against that creature. If they were attacking any creature besides you you must spend 1 extra ki to use this ability.
Crushing Strike
At eleventh level your mastery of your soul, body, and mind allows you to destroy your enemies, surpassing even the greatest of protection. When you make a unarmed strike attack you can choose to make it a Crushing Strike, when you do so you ignore all resistances, immunities, and your attack automatically hits as a if you rolled a critical hit, and you add your wisdom the damage roll. You must finish a long rest before you can use this ability again.
One with the Steel Soul
At seventeenth level your Soul and mind are one, you gain the following benefits
- Your strength and wisdom both increase by two, to no maximum
- You can not be frightened, charmed, and controlled by any magical means
- If you ever enter a state in which your soul is separated from your body (such as Astral projection) Your soul has the physical stats of your body
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