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Hell's Gate

Hell's Gate, the layered wall cutting of Hellsmere Peninsula, the Great City in the West from the main land has long been protected by an order of warriors known as The Guardian's. Specially trained fighters who have learned and art that for the most part a closely guarded secret within the confines of the Empire.  These warriors train above and beyond the common man at arms to learn to channel a powerful energy that is found deep inside themselves. Bringing this power into their weapons and armors they form the unbreakable defense that has kept Hellsmere's people free and protected for over a thousand years.

Power Point Pool

Starting at 3rd Level when you choose this Archetype you gain access to a pool of psychic energy, a secret technique that The Guardians use to augment their abilities. How many power points you posses is based off of your level.

Level 3-4    3 Points

Level 5-6    4 Points

Level 7-8    5 Points

Level 9-10   6 Points

Level 11-12  8 Points

Level 13-14  9 Points

Level 15-18  10 Points

Level 19-20  12 Points

These points can be spent to use your abilities offered in this Archetype. You regain points equal to your level divided by three at the end of a short rest, and regain all expended points at the end of a Long Rest.

Guardian Empowerment

Starting at 3rd level you can expend 1 Power Point from your Power Point Pool to make striking your target harder and with greater ease. As a Bonus Action you can expend 1 Power Point to gain a +5 to your first attack roll this turn, if the attack hits it deals an extra amount of Psychic Damage equal to your Constitution Modifier.

Starting at 3rd level you learn to imbue your armour with your psychic powers. As a Reaction you can expend 1 Power Point to gain a bonus to your AC equal to your Constitution Modifier until the start of your next turn.

Elemental Empowering

Starting at 7th level you have mastered the ability to change the flavour or your psychic energy as it pulses into your armor or weapon. As a Bonus Action you can Expend Power Points up to One Third your Level (Rounded Down) to add damage to the first attack you make that turn, this damage can be Fire, Cold, Lightning, Acid, or Poison and you choose each time you use this feature. The damage you add is 1d6 for every power point spent on this ability. Defensively this ability allows you to, as a Reaction, expend 2 Power Points to gain Resistance to a damage type of your choice until the end of your next turn (this can be any time of damage beside Force, including Piercing, Slashing and Bludgeoning).

At higher levels this feature becomes more powerful, starting at level 15 you add 1d8 per Power Point spent on attack, and can spend 4 Power Points to gain Immunity to a single damage type until the end of your next turn.

Spark of Brilliance

Starting at 10th level you gain the ability to expend power points in a moment of necessity to overcome those assailing you. As a reaction you can expend 1 Power Points to gain advantage on a Saving Throw.  On your turn you can use this ability as a move action giving yourself Advantage on your next Saving Throw before the start of your next turn. You can spend 3 Power Points to Imbue this power into an Ally. You can touch an ally to give them Advantage on their next saving throw until the start of your next turn as a movement action. 

Guardian's Awareness

Starting at level 15 your mental powers have allowed you to gain increased awareness of your surroundings. You add your Constitution Modifier to your initiative as long as you have at least 1 power point in your power point pool.

Battlemind's Resilience

Starting at 18th level you gain the power to cast your psychic energy around you in a mantle. While activated your eyes begin to glow with a dim light and a halo of crackling energy forms around your head. You can expend 2 Power Points to activate this Aura as an action, it can be maintained each turn after the first as a bonus action by expending 1 Power Point. While this aura is active all allies within five feet of you have resistance to all damage. Any enemy that attacks an ally within 5 feet of you while this mantle is active with an attack that does not include you as a target must make a Wisdom Saving Throw. On a failure they take 2d10 psychic damage, on a success they take half damage.

The DC for this saving throw is 8+proficiency score+your Constitution Modifier.

I wanted an NPC that had a hold over the city’s powerful people by means of controlling a fungus that he infected them all with, and this sorcerer developed out of it. I do remember seeing a Warlock patron of the parasite somewhere, I don’t know if this one is at all similar to it, but here is my take on a character gaining power from a growth within them.

WARNING! What follows is a homebrew Monk Archetype still in developement. For now, I’d only consider it an Enemy NPC class. I’d be happy about any sort of feedback and critique, tips on balancing it out  further and etc. Apologies for any spelling mistakes or grammatical errors, I shall fix those in the near future.

Amidst a sea of blood and carved up bodies, a single man sits on top of a small hilltop of corpses. His legs crossed and eyes closed, his tranquility seems out of place in this horrifying scene. Survivors of the bloodbath come crawling out of their hiding place, men and women clad in heavy armour and brandishing chipped swords and blood-soaked axes. They are out to avenge their comrades.

The tranquil man opens his eyes and they glow with the fury of hell itself. Muscles creak and bones click as the man stands up to face his foes. The skin of his arms darkens to a charred black and the light of his eyes turns into hungering flames as he unleashes the build up fury in a terrifying roar, before he launches himself at his opponents – no longer a man, but a horrific, charred black creature of destruction, from whose back sprout giant arms seemingly made of flame.

You follow a monastic tradition that has its origins in the seemingly mindless destructive force of the great Archdemon Asura himself. When you focus your ki, you call upon the fury of your heart to harden your skin, to become strong enough to shatter armour with a single strike and grow stronger with every beating you take, furthering your rage to tremendous heights. Additionally, you can also channel your ki into bursts of destructive demonic energy, augment your own body into that of an unstoppable machine of disaster and eventually, when the fury consumes you, become an avatar of Asura himself.

Monks of this tradition believe, that destruction is not a calamity you must fear, but a necessary for the world to change and further develop. As such, they follow in the footsteps of the Archdemon Asura, seeing him less as a malefic force of evil, but as the Avatar of Change himself and strife to follow his example. To do so, they learn to control their anger, their wrath and fury and use it to channel their innate ki.

Aspect of Wrath

When you choose this monastic tradition at 3rd level, you develop the ability to channel your ki to augment your body  to superhuman levels. As a bonus action, you may turn yourself into an Aspect of Wrath, giving you the following abilities:

Destructive Fists. Your unarmed attacks deal additional fire damage equal to your wisdom modifier.

Charred Skin. While in your Wrath Form, your AC equals to 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Wisdom modifier + your Constitution modifier.

Voice of the Demon. Your very presence strikes fear in the hearts of enemies. You may take a bonus action to unleash a terrifying roar to reduce your foes to whimpering piles of despair. They must succeed on a Wisdom Saving Throw against your Ki save DC or be frightened until the end of your next turn.

Never-ending Fury. For every creature you kill while in this form, you regain 1 ki point.

Your Wrath Form gains additional abilities at 6th, 11th and 17th level.

For every turn you remain in this form, you must spend 1 ki point to sustain it. When your  ki points come to 0, you return to your normal self and you gain one level of exhaustion. While in your wrath form, you are unable to regenerate health in any way, be it by the way of a healing potion, a cure wounds spell or any other kind of magical effect.

Arms of Vajra

At 6th level, you, may spend 3 ki points to sprout four arms of destructive energy from your back. When you use your Flurry of Blows ability, you may now make six unarmed strikes as a bonus action, instead of two.

Force of Destruction

At 11th level, you gain the ability to emit beams and barrages of destructive energy.

Force Barrage. You may spend 3 ki points to unleash a barrage of energy projectiles from your hands. Make a ranged spell attack for each projectile against a single creature, dealing force damage in the process. The number of projectiles equals to your wisdom modifier plus your proficiency bonus. The damage die for each projectile is a d6.

Destructive Wave. You may spend 4 ki points to emit demonic energy from your body in a 30 ft. radius. All creatures in that space must succeed on a Dexterity Saving throw against your Ki DC or take 4d12 force damage and are knocked prone. If they succeed, the damage is halved and they remain upright.

Demon Breath. You may spend 5 ki points to emit a 5ft. Wide and 60 ft. long beam of demonic energy from your mouth that pierces through your enemies defences and leaves them weakened. Every creature in the line of fire must make a Dexterity Saving throw against your Ki DC or take 5d10 force damage. Additionally, they have disadvantage on all saving and attack roles until the end of your next turn. If they succeed, the damage is halved and are not weakened.

Hell To Your Doorstep

At 17th level, you may spend 7 ki points to bring forth Hell to your enemies. You summon up a sphere of malevolent energies, 20 ft. in radius and centred on you. The ground in that sphere is considered difficult terrain, as the negative energies crack and ripple the earth around you. Every creature that enters this sphere must make a Dexterity Saving Throw or be impaled by spikes of destructive energy that jut out of the space around it. On a failure, the creature takes 3d10 points of necrotic damage and has it's speed reduced to 0. It must succeed on a Strength or Dexterity Check against your Ki Save to free itself. If it succeeds its initial saving throw, it takes half damage and isn't impaled.

At each start of your turn, you must spend 1 ki point to sustain the sphere. If you don't, the sphere collapses, leaving you with one level of Exhaustion.

CREDITS: Path of the Asura Monk Archetype created by lord-tathamet

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A Monk Subclass; Alternatively: Way of Grace

Prerequisite: Proficiency in Performance

Monks of the Way of the Sway have trained their minds and bodies to move with perfect flow and graceful beauty in order to inspire those around them. They have honed their mastery over ki in conjunction with their training to the point that they are able to to instill others with its potential through either precise or intuitive movements and meditated steps.