Monk: Way of the Stormfist | New Subclass!

Monks of the Way of the Stormfist train on tempestuous mountaintops and in unforgiving conditions to harness the power of legends: lightning. Using their ki, these monks can create, redirect, and move through bolts of lightning like the stories of old.

• Generate electricity and become Electrified with your unarmed strikes! Gain benefits to attacking metallic targets near and far!

• Hurl bolts of lightning like spears, and even capture lightning that's thrown at you!

• Shock enemies with retaliatory arcs of electricity, stopping them from using reactions whenever you deal lightning damage to them!

• Teleport to distant locations in bolts of lightning, sending shockwaves of thunderous energy from you when you reappear!

• Cast chain lightning with your ki / focus!

Since not all subclasses are tied to a specific setting in Saddlebag Year 6, consider the following pre-existing settings to align this with.

• Amphibios

• Antronec

• Breezeport

• Capilla of Twin Fates

• Heavensteppe

• Legendary Stories

• Polaris

• Primordium

• Rocborne

• TDMA

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As always, further revisions will be made here with published updates as they're released, as needed.

Credits

I was responsible for direction, design, and additional editing for this setting. However, this couldn't be possible without extra help. If you like this setting, consider supporting these other incredible creators:

TheArenaGuy — Editing

Damien Mammoliti — Subclass illustration

And all the passionate playtesters!

This release is also made especially possible by the extra generosity of $12+ Legendary Heroes! Thank you all so much for you support, and be proud of your place in the end credits! You've earned it!

Changelog

Version 1.1

• Allowed you to use the lightning spears instead of your normal attacks on your turn, as well as your Flurry of Blows. If you're electrified, you also get advantage on those attacks against metallic targets.

• If you have a bonus to your unarmed strikes, like from a magic item, that bonus also applies to your attacks with the lightning spears.

• Changed the reaction-based element of Electrical Surge to the following: Once on each of your turns when you deal lightning damage to a creature, you can choose to cause that creature to be unable to make opportunity attacks until the start of your next turn.

• Storm Step now requires you to spend Ki as part of your use of Step of the Wind. This prevents free use of it with the 5.24 rules.

• Galvanic Hand now specifies that the spell is a duplicate of the spell's effects, so it can't be counterspelled.