Base Class: Monk
While some monks utilize Ki to alter the world around them, or empower themselves with magical abilities, some channel it into increasing their martial skills to the highest possible potential. these are the Kung Fu masters, who use a variety of Ki empowered stances, known as styles to defeat their opponents.
Martial Styles
You can adopt one of your chosen styles, out of the list, at any turn without the use of an action. Adopting a style cost one Ki point and you cannot adopt more than one style per turn, at first. once a style is adopted you may remain in that style for up to one minute.
Dragon Style
Your spirit is infused with the wisdom of the noble dragon. While in this style, your wisdom modifier is increased by one, increasing your unarmored AC, Ki save DC and aiding wisdom checks and saving throws. while in this form you become sensitive to the scent of Gold, gems, jewelry and other "valuable" items; you can track, using the survival skill proficiently, if you are already proficient in survival, the skill is treated as if you have expertise in it, only when tracking items fore mentioned. You also gain, while in this stance, the ability to cast the identify spell once per short rest .
Mantis Style
Your movements become focused and defensive, like the praying mantis.
While in this style, you can use your reaction to deflect, or redirect melee attacks (bludgeoning, slashing, piercing). When you do so, the damage you take from the attack is reduced by 1d10 + your Dexterity modifier + your monk level.
If you reduce the damage to 0, in this manner, you can redirect the attack, you spend 1 ki point to cause that attack to hit one creature of your choice, other than the attacker, that you can see within 5 feet of you.
Monkey Style
Your fighting style becomes tricky and unpredictable, while in this style you have advantage on acrobatic check and you gain an extra reaction, potentially allowing two uses of an opportunity attack or your deflect missile ability.
Panda Style
You gain an odd knack for turning your failures into successes in a way that baffles those around you. When you roll a 1 on the d20 for an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll.
Tiger Style
Your body becomes infused with the strength of the mighty tiger. while in this style you gain advantage on strength checks and saving throws and cannot be moved against your will without the use of magical force. when a hit lands on a creature, in addition to damage, the sheer ferocity of the attack may propel an enemy and throw it off balance. a creature hit by the tiger strike must succeed on a strength save or be pushed 10' away and knocked prone.
Turtle Style
your defenses become as robust as those of the patient turtle. while in this style, you gain temporary hitpoints equal to your monk level+ wisdom modifier. these hitpoints are lost when you dismiss the style. you can also utilize your hardened defense to attempt to stop melee attacks. When a melee attack is made against you, while in this style, you can use a reaction to reduce the damage taken by the attack by 1d10 + wisdom mod + monk level
Viper
your movements become swift as the striking viper. While in this style, your movements do not provoke opportunity attacks and you can move through the space of other creatures, space occupied by other creatures doesn't counts as difficult terrain to you, but you cannot end your turn in a space occupied by another creature.
Style shifting
At 6th level, you have learned to quickly adapt your fighting style to suit the situation. For the cost of one Ki point, You can now enter and access two styles of your choice per turn instead of one. both styles can be shifted between, at no additional cost, for up to one minute.
Rapid style shifting
By 11th level, you have learned to adapt your fighting style with lightning speed. For the cost of 2 Ki points, You can now enter and access an amount of styles per turn equal to your wisdom modifier. all styles accessed can be shifted between, at no additional cost, for up to one minute.
Master of styles
At 17th level, you gain access to one of the three legendary styles, only known to the most dedicated Kung Fu masters. The same rules apply to these styles as they do to any other of this subclass but they cost three Ki points to enter instead of one. Legendary styles can be entered and accessed as one the allotted styles when rapid shifting, however, when added, the Ki cost of Rapid Shifting is increased to 5 per minute.
Mystic style
Your will becomes near unconquerable from the constant flow of ki through your mind. While in this style, enemies have disadvantage on your stunning strike's saving throw, your stillness of mind ability becomes a reaction, you have Immunity to psychic damage and are unaffected by thedetect thoughts spell. You also cannot be put to sleep through magical means.
Phoenix Style
Your strikes blaze with the power of the heavenly phoenix. While in this style, your unarmed strikes do fire damage and can explode out from the target in a 15ft sphere dealing the same damage to creatures within the radius. You can also spend up to three Ki points on the hit, each point adding a d10 to the damage roll. You are immune to fire damage while in this style.
Tarrasque style
You become as sturdy and formidable as the daunting Tarrasque. While in this style, your AC increases by an amount equal to your constitution modifier and you gain Immunity and to fire and poison damage and resistance to bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damage.
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