Monk: Way of the Bushi

Practitioners of Bushido meaning "the way of the warrior" in the east, these warriors focus their life on a code of honor to temper their martial skills with wisdom and serenity. They often either pledge themselves to a liege in service to their kingdom as samurai or wander the world as vagabonds.

Samurai's armaments

When you take this tradition at 3rd level you gain proficiencies in the arms and armors synonymous with Samurais. You gain the following features:

  • You craft a set of armor called Dō. You are assumed to have worked on it during spare time. Refer to the equipment page below for it's stats and cost.
  • You are proficient with Dō armor. While wearing Dō armor and no shield, your can add your Wisdom modifier to your AC. Additionally you cannot use your Martial Arts feature, but can still use Dexterity for the attack and damage rolls of monk weapons.
  • Your speed while wearing Do increases by your unarmored movement bonus minus 10 feet.
  • You gain longswords, halberds, glaives and longbows as monk weapons. When wielding a halberd, glaive or a longbow as a monk weapon you ignore the heavy attribute.

Kenjutsu

Additionally at 3rd level, you can use a bonus action to ready a powerful blow. Before the end of your turn, the next time you roll a damage die for a melee monk weapon attack you may roll a martial arts die and add it to the damage roll.

Deflect attack

Furthermore at 3rd level, when you are hit by a melee attack, you can spend 1 ki point as a reaction to reduce it's damage by an amount equal to a martial art die + your Dexterity modifier + your monk level.

Elegant Courtier

Starting at 6th level, your discipline and attention to detail allow you to excel in social situations that require strict adherence to etiquette. You can add your Wisdom modifier to any Charisma check you make to persuade or please a noble or anyone else of high social station. You also gain proficiency in the History, Insight, or Persuasion skill (choose one). Alternatively, you learn one language of your choice.

Flurry of Slashes

Additionally at 6th level, immediately after you take the attack action on your turn, you can spend 2 ki points to make an additional attack with a melee monk weapon as a bonus action. At 11th level the amount of attacks you can make with this feature increases by 1.

Issen

At 11th level, after you make a melee attack against a creature you can move up to 10 feet without provoking opportunity attacks. This movement counts as part of your speed. You cannot use this feature if you have no speed remaining.

Tenka Musō

At 17th level, when you roll for initiative you can spend 3 ki points to immediately take a turn in combat. Afterwards you take your next turn at your initiative roll. You cannot use this feature if you are surprised.

Dō

Dō is an exotic type of medium armor made by Samurai.

Cost: 75 gp

AC: 12 + dexterity

Stealth: Disadvantage

Weight: 20 lb.

Crafting

Should you in some way lose your Dō you can craft another one over the course of 3 days by using 75gp of materials including: Metal, wood, leather, and cloth.

Adamantine and Magic Dō

If you wish to and have the material components to do so, you can craft a set of Dō using adamantine. In this case, you can use 300 golds worth of adamantine in addition to the crafting rules above. If your campaign contains magic crafting rules refer to them in order to craft a magical set of Dō.

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