Subclass Changes [buffs]

• Ascendant Dragon Monk
• Drunken Master Monk - minor
• Four Elements Monk changed to Elements Monk
• Kensei Monk
• Long Death Monk
• Open Hand Monk - minor
• Shadow Monk - minor
• Sun Soul Monk
  
  

Way of the Ascendant Dragon [Monk]

The dragon god Bahamut is known to travel the Material Plane in the guise of a young monk, and legend says that he founded the first monastery of the Way of the Ascendant Dragon in this guise. The fundamental teaching of this tradition holds that by emulating dragons, a monk becomes a more integrated part of the world and its magic. By altering their spirit to resonate with draconic might, monks who follow this tradition augment their prowess in battle, bolster their allies, and can even soar through the air on draconic wings. But all this power is in service of a greater goal: achieving a spiritual unity with the essence of the Material Plane.

Monks who follow the Way of the Ascendant Dragon revere the power and grandeur of dragons. They alter their own ki to resonate with draconic might, channeling it to augment their prowess in battle, soar through the air, and to bolster their allies.

Draconic Disciple

• When you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you can channel your draconic ki to imbue your unarmed strikes with the essence of a dragon's breath and to use your connection with draconic creatures to magnify your presence. You gain the following benefits:
  • Draconic Presence. If you fail a Charisma (Intimidation) or Charisma (Persuasion) check, you can use your reaction to reroll the check, as you tap into the mighty presence of dragons. Once this feature turns a failure into a success, you can't use it again until you finish a short rest.
  • Draconic Strike. When you damage a target with an unarmed strike, you can change the damage type to acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison.
  • Tongue of the Dragons. You learn to speak, read, and write Draconic or one other language of your choice.

Breath of the Dragon

• • When you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you can channel your ki into destructive waves of energy like the dragons you emulate. When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can replace one of the attacks with an exhalation of draconic energy in either a 20-foot cone or a 30-foot line that is 5 feet wide (your choice). Choose a damage type: acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison. Each creature in the area must make a Dexterity saving throw against your ki save DC, taking damage of the chosen type equal to two rolls of your Martial Arts die on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Wings Unfurled

• At 6th level, when you use your Step of the Wind, you can unfurl spectral draconic wings from your back that vanish at the end of your turn. While the wings exist, you have a flying speed equal to your walking speed.

Aspect of the Wyrm

• At 11th level, the power of your draconic spirit now radiates from you, warding your allies or inspiring fear in your enemies. As a bonus action, you can create an aura of draconic power that radiates 30 feet from you for 1 minute. For the duration, you gain one of the following effects of your choice:
  • Frightful Presence. When you create this aura, and as a bonus action on subsequent turns, you can choose a creature within the aura. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw against your ki save DC or become frightened of you for 1 minute. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a successful save.
  • Resistance. Choose a damage type when you activate this aura: acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison. You and your allies within the aura have resistance to that damage.
  • Retribution. Waves of destructive energy flow out from you and your allies when any of you are attacked. When you or one of your allies in the aura is hit by an attack made by another creature within the aura, the target that was hit can use their reaction to deal an amount of damage of the chosen type equal to one roll of your Martial Arts die to the attacker.

Ascendant Aspect

• At 17th level, your draconic ki reaches its peak. You gain the following benefits:
  • Blindsight. You gain blindsight out to 30 feet. Within that range, you can effectively see anything that isn't behind total cover, even if you're blinded or in darkness. Moreover, you can see an invisible creature within that range, unless the creature successfully hides from you.
  • Lingering Breath. When you damage a creature with your Breath of the Dragon, the energy clings to the target. At the start of each of the creature's turns, it takes damage of the type your breath dealt equal to one roll of your Martial Arts die. At the end of its turn, the creature can repeat the save, ending the effect on itself on a success.
  • Superior Breath. When you use your Breath of the Dragon, you can spend 1 ki point to augment its shape and power. The exhalation of draconic energy becomes either a 60-foot cone or a 100-foot line that is 10 feet wide (your choice), and each creature in that area takes damage equal to four rolls of your Martial Arts die on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
  • Wrathful Fury. When you activate your Aspect of the Wyrm, draconic fury explodes from you. Choose any number of creatures you can see in your aura. Each of those creatures must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw against your ki save DC or take 4d10 acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison damage (your choice).

Way of the Drunken Master [Monk]

Minor Buff

Bonus Proficiencies

• At 3rd level, you gain proficiency with improvised weapons, which are monk weapons for you.
  
  Additionally, you gain proficiency in the Performance skill if you don't already have it. Your martial arts technique mixes combat training with the precision of a dancer and the antics of a jester. You also gain proficiency with brewer's supplies if you don't already have it.

Tipsy Sway

• Starting at 6th level, you can move in sudden, swaying ways. You gain the following benefits.
  • Be Alcohol My Friend. You ignore difficult terrain. 
  • Leap to Your Feet. When you're prone, you can stand up by spending 5 feet of movement, rather than half your speed. Additionally, when you are prone, your enemies don't gain advantage on attack rolls against you and you don't gain disadvantage on attack rolls.
  • Redirect Attack. When you use Patient Defense and a creature misses you with a melee attack roll, you can use a reaction to cause that attack to hit one creature of your choice, other than the attacker, that you can see within 5 feet of you.
    • removed ki point cost

Drunkard's Luck

• Starting at 11th level, you always seem to get a lucky bounce at the right moment. When you make an ability check, an attack roll, or a saving throw and have disadvantage on the roll, you can spend 2 ki points to cancel the disadvantage for that roll. Also, when you make an ability check or a saving throw, you can spend 4 ki points to automatically succeed. You can use this feature after the roll but before the DM tells you the effect. Once you use this ability you must finish a long rest before you can do so again.
  
  Additionally, when you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can drop to 1 hit point instead. At the end of your next turn, you fall back unconscious, all attacks made during this round are made with advantage. Once you use this ability you must finish a long rest before you can do so again.

Way of the Four Elements renamed to Way of the Elements [Monk]

Monks that follow this tradition, unlike other element wielding traditions, focus in developing a more profound connection with a single element: fire, air, water, or earth. A monk normally chooses the element most aligned with their personality, for example an airbender tends to be lighthearted and carefree, while a firebender can be passionate and hotheaded, an earthbender may act stoic and rough, or a waterbender be calm and easygoing.

The different techniques needed to manipulate a certain element using your ki or “bending” it result in individual combat styles for each element. Firebending is offensive, attacking head on with exploding blazes of fire; airbending is evasive, dodging and finding the best position to then attack with powerful blasts of wind; waterbending is flexible, flowing from defense to offense and attacking with the most appropriate form of water each time; earthbending is defensive, waiting for the perfect moment to overwhelm your target with big chunks or sharp spikes of rock.

A monk of this tradition must learn that its element is not a mere weapon, but an extension of its body, and can be a source of wisdom both in combat and outside of it.

Bonus Bonus Ki

• At 3rd level, you are spritually enlightened. On top of the "Bonus Ki. You have an additional number of ki points equal to your proficiency bonus.", you gain an additional number of ki points equal to your proficiency bonus.

Bending Arts

• When you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you spiritually connect with one of the four elements and learn to manipulate its form or “bend” it, using the energy within you, becoming a part of your martial arts style.
  
  You gain a new attack option that you use with the Attack action, a Bending Strike. This special attack is a melee weapon attack (even though your element is not a weapon) with a range of 10 feet. You are proficient with it, and you add your Dexterity modifier to its attack and damage rolls. Its damage die is a d4. This die changes as you gain monk levels, as shown in the Martial Arts column of the Monk table.

• • Firebending. Your Bending Strike deals fire damage. When you are directly under the sun, you can harness its energy to add half your Wisdom modifier (rounded up) to the damage of your Bending Strikes. Once per turn, if this attack hits a creature within 5 feet of you, it suffers extra damage equal to one roll of your Martial Arts die.
  • Airbending. Your Bending Strike deals bludgeoning damage. If this attack hits a creature no more than one size larger than you, you can deal the damage and try to push it 5 feet in a direction you choose unless it succeeds in a Strength saving throw. Instead, you can forgo the damage of the attack to knock prone the target unless it succeeds in a Strength saving throw.
  • Airbending variant. Your Bending Strike deals your choice of bludgeoning or slashing damage. Once per turn, if this attack hits a creature no more than one size larger than you, you can try to knock it prone or push it 10 feet in a direction you choose unless it succeeds in a Strength saving throw.
  • Waterbending. Your Bending Strike deals your choice of bludgeoning, slashing, piercing or cold damage. While you are directly under the moon, you can harness its energy to add half your Wisdom modifier (rounded up) to the damage of your Bending Strikes.
  • Earthbending. Your Bending Strike deals bludgeoning or piercing damage. You can also make ranged Bending Strikes with a normal range of 20 feet and a long range of 60 feet.

Shape of the Elements

• Also at 3rd level, as part of your bending, you can mold your element in more subtle manners. As an action you can manipulate your chosen element if it is within 15 feet of you in one of the following ways:
  • Cause up to a 5-foot cube of your element to shape itself into a crude form you designate or move to a place within range. This movement does not involve enough force to cause damage.
  • Transform the physical properties of up to a 5-foot cube of your element, such as lighting or snuffing out a small fire, freezing water or creating mist, or turning sand into sandstone.
  • Create a harmless, instantaneous sensory effect related to your element, such as a shower of sparks, a puff of wind, a spray of light mist, or a gentle rumbling of stone.

Magic of the Elements

• replaces Shape of the Elements; you choose whether to adapt the Shape of the Elements feature or the Magic of the Elements feature.
• Also at 3rd level, you learn a cantrip and a spell related to your element. You substitute the normal spell components in the casting for a single somatic component, as the control of your element comes from you martial arts moves.
  • Fire: You know the control flames cantrip, and you can spend 1 ki point to cast searing smite.
  • Air: You know the gust cantrip, and you can spend 1 ki point to cast feather fall.
  • Water: You know the shape water cantrip, and you can spend 1 ki point to cast fog cloud.
  • Earth: You know the mold earth cantrip, and you can spend 1 ki point to cast ensnaring strike.

Wisdom of the Elements

• When you reach 6th level, you ascertain the less apparent attributes of your element and develop techniques that imitate them:
  • Energy conduit (Fire). You have resistance to cold damage, and you do not suffer the negative effects of extreme temperatures. 

• • Circle walking (Air). You ignore difficult terrain when you Dash. 

• • Flowing paths (Water). You gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed. 

• • For Earth, choose one:
    • Seismic sense (Earth). You have advantage on saving throws against falling prone. 

• Grounded reflexes (Earth). As a bonus action you can gain tremorsense in a range of 30 feet until the beginning of your next turn. 

Ki-empowered Bending

• Beginning at 11th level, you can instill ki in your chosen element to create more powerful bending moves. As an action, you can spend 1 ki point to make one of the following techniques:
  • Bending stream. Each creature in a line 30 feet long and 5 feet wide emanating from you in a direction you choose must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes damage of the same type as your Bending Strikes equal to three rolls of your Martial Arts die, or half as much damage on a success.
  • Bending wave. Each creature other than you in a 10-foot radius sphere centered on you must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes damage of the same type as your Bending Strikes equal to two rolls of your Martial Arts die, or half as much damage on a success.
• Additionally, you can add an extra effect to the attack depending on your chosen element:
  • • Searing flames (Fire). A creature that fails the saving throw takes extra fire damage equal to your Wisdom modifier.
    • Distant combustions (Fire). You can spend 1 extra ki point or one use of your Wisdom of the Elements feature to make your attack originate from a point you can see within 30 feet of you, and this attack inflicts double damage to objects and structures in the area.
    • Raging gales (Air). A creature that fails the saving throw is pushed 10 feet away from you.
    • Lingering winds (Air). You can spend 1 extra ki point or one use of your Wisdom of the Elements feature to create wind currents in the area. Until the beginning of your next turn, the attack rolls of ranged weapon attacks have disadvantage if the attacks pass through the area.
    • Forceful torrents (Water). A creature that fails the saving throw is knocked prone.
    • Glacial rivers (Water). You can spend 1 extra ki point or one use of your Wisdom of the Elements feature to freeze in place creatures in the area. A creature that fails the saving throw is restrained until the beginning of your next turn or until someone uses an action to free the frozen creature.
    • Exploding tremors (Earth). Ground in the area becomes difficult terrain until cleared.
    • Rising hills (Earth). You can spend 1 extra ki point or one use of your Wisdom of the Elements feature to elevate 3 feet the ground in the area of the attack. While next to this elevated ground, a creature gains half cover. The barrier lasts until the beginning of your next turn, after which it returns to normal.

Master Technique

• When you reach 17th level, you reach the peak of your bending abilities, becoming a master of the element. Choose a master technique from your element to specialize on:
• Mastery of Fire

  • Sun-bending. You understand the true nature of fire, not just as a destructive force, but as the source of all life and energy. You can spend 3 ki points to cast remove curse and 5 ki points to cast greater restoration without providing any material components. 

• • Lightning-bending. You learn to remain cool-headed even in the raging flames of combat. You can use Stillness of Mind as a bonus action. 

• Mastery of Air

  • Become wind. By leaving all earthly attachments, you have found true freedom. You gain a flying speed equal to your movement speed, and while flying you gain the same benefits as if under the freedom of movement spell. 

• • Steal breath. You reject the traditional philosophy of airbending, learning a technique that steals your opponent’s breath. You can spend 2 ki points as an action to concentrate (as if you were concentrating on a spell) and extract the air of a creature you can see within 30 feet of you. The creature runs out of breath and begins suffocating (see the rules for suffocating on Chapter 8 of the Player’s Handbook). While suffocating, at the beginning of each of its turns the creature must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or be stunned until the beginning of its next turn. 

• Mastery of Water

  • Spirit-bending. Using advanced healing techniques, you can soothe and restore the energy paths that flow through a creature connecting its body and spirit. You can spend 3 ki points to cast calm emotions, and when you cast it this way you can only choose one target within 30 feet of you, affecting any type of creature, not only humanoids. You must use your bonus action in subsequent turns to maintain this effect, and it ends early if the creature moves further than 30 feet from you. 

• • Blood-bending. You learn the ability of controlling the water inside a creature. You can use an action to concentrate (as if you were concentrating on a spell) and try to seize control of a creature you can see within 30 feet of you. You spend a number of ki points: 2 if the creature is Medium or smaller, 4 if it is Large, or 6 if it is Huge or bigger. The creature must then make a Strength saving throw or be paralyzed. A creature that has no water on its body automatically succeeds in the saving throw. At the end of each of its turns the target can make another Strength saving throw (despite being paralyzed), ending the effect on itself on a success. While paralyzed in this way, you can use your action to move a creature up to 15 feet, provided it does not leave your range. 

• Mastery of Earth

  • Metal-bending. You are capable of bending the small particles of earth that remain even in the most refined metals. Any feature in this tradition that refers to your element can be also applied to any metal, and you can choose to give yourself advantage or impose disadvantage in any skill check that uses your metal-bending, such as when trying to disarm a creature holding a sword or pushing an armored creature. 

• Lava-bending. You learn to instill energy in the rocks you bend, heating them to a point where they melt. When you make a Ki-Empowered Bending attack, you can choose to melt the ground, dealing 2d10 extra fire damage with the attack and flooding the ground with lava for 1 minute or until you use an action to end the effect. During that time, ground in the area is considered difficult terrain, and a creature that enters the area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there must make a Dexterity saving throw and suffer 8d10 fire damage on a failure, or half as much in a success. 

Way of the Kensei [Monk]

Monks of the Way of the Kensei train relentlessly with their weapons, to the point that the weapon becomes like an extension of the body. Founded on a mastery of sword fighting, the tradition has expanded to include many different weapons.

A kensei sees a weapon much in the same way a calligrapher or a painter regards a pen or brush. Whatever the weapon, the kensei views it as a tool used to express the beauty and precision of the martial arts. That such mastery makes a kensei a peerless warrior is but a side effect of intense devotion, practice, and study.

Path of the Kensei

• When you choose this tradition at 3rd level, your special martial arts training leads you to master the use of certain weapons. This path also includes instruction in the deft strokes of calligraphy or painting. You gain the following benefits:
  • Kensei Weapon Arts. You gain proficiency with martial weapons, and any martial weapon that lacks the special. two-handed, or heavy properties becomes a monk weapon for you, as well as the glaive and longbow. For any monk class feature that requires an unarmed strike, you can use a monk weapon instead, and for any monk class feature that requires a melee weapon attack, you can use a ranged weapon attack with a monk weapon. 
  • Kensei's Focus. You can use a bonus action to focus upon openings in your enemies' defenses until the end of your turn. When you do so, any target you hit with a monk weapon takes an extra 1d4 damage of the weapon's type.
  • Agile Parry. While you are holding a monk weapon and you are hit with an attack, you can use your reaction to gain a +2 bonus to AC until the start of your next turn, while the weapon is in your hand and you aren’t incapacitated. 
  • Way of the Brush. You gain proficiency with your choice of calligrapher's supplies or painter's supplies.

One with the Blade

• At 6th level, you extend your ki into your kensei weapons, granting you the following benefits.
  • Magic Kensei Weapons. Your attacks with your kensei weapons count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.
  • Deft Strike. When you hit a target with a monk weapon, you can spend 1 ki point to cause the weapon to deal extra damage to the target equal to your Martial Arts die. 

Sharpen Focus

• At 11th level, you gain the ability to augment your weapons further with your ki. As a free action, you can expend up to 3 ki points to grant one kensei weapon you touch a bonus to attack and damage rolls when you attack with it. The bonus equals the number of ki points you spent. This bonus lasts for 1 minute or until you use this feature again. This feature has no effect on a magic weapon that already has a bonus to attack and damage rolls.

Unerring Accuracy

• At 17th level, your mastery of weapons grants you extraordinary accuracy. If you miss with an attack roll using a monk weapon on your turn, you can reroll it. You can use this feature only once on each of your turns. You can use this feature only once on each of your turns, though you can use it again on a subsequent attack on that turn if you land a critical hit.

Way of the Long Death [Monk]

Monks of the Way of the Long Death are obsessed with the meaning and mechanics of dying. They capture creatures and prepare elaborate experiments to capture, record, and understand the moments of their demise. They use this knowledge to guide their understanding of martial arts, yielding a deadly fighting style.

Touch of Death

• • Starting when you choose this tradition at 3rd level, your study of death allows you to extract vitality from another creature as it nears its demise. When you reduce a creature within 5 feet of you to 0 hit points, you gain temporary hit points equal to your Wisdom modifier + your monk level (minimum of 1 temporary hit point).
    
    Additionally, you can throw your entire body into one devastating attack. As an action, you can make a single unarmed strike against a creature you can see within reach. On a hit, you deal damage equal to five rolls of your Martial Arts die + your monk level in place of the attack’s normal damage. You can’t use this action and use your bonus action to attack on the same turn. You can spend ki points when you hit with this attack to deal necrotic damage to the target. The maximum number of ki you can spend is equal to your proficiency bonus. For each ki point that you spend, roll your Martial Arts die, and add the result to the damage of the attack as necrotic damage.

Hour of Reaping

• • At 6th level, you gain the ability to unsettle or terrify those around you as an action, for your soul has been touched by the shadow of death. When you take this action, each creature within 30 feet of you that can see you must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or be frightened of you until the end of your next turn.
    
    Also, you can sustain yourself on the ki of others. The first time each turn that you reduce a creature to 0 hit points while you have no ki points remaining, you can regain 1 ki point.

Mastery of Death

• • Beginning at 11th level, you use your familiarity with death to escape its grasp. When you are reduced to 0 hit points, you can expend 1 ki point (no action required) to have 1 hit point instead.

Touch of the Long Death

• • Starting at 17th level, your touch can channel the energy of death into a creature. As an action, you touch one creature within 5 feet of you, and you expend 1 to 10 ki points. The target must make a Constitution saving throw, and it takes 2d12 necrotic damage per ki point spent on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.

Way of the Open Hand [Monk]

Minor Buff

Bonus Proficiency

• At 3rd level, you gain proficiency in the Medicine skill if you don't already have it. 

Wholeness of Body

• • At 6th level, you gain the ability to heal yourself. As an action, bonus action, or reaction, you can regain hit points equal to three times your monk level. You must finish a long rest before you can use this feature again.
  • changed whole feature's action economy to be more monk-y

Tranquility

• • Beginning at 11th level, you can enter a special meditation that surrounds you with an aura of peace. At the end of a short or long rest, you gain the effect of a sanctuary spell that lasts until the start of your next short or long rest (the spell can end early as normal). The saving throw DC for the spell equals 8 + your Wisdom modifier + your proficiency bonus.

Precision Strikes

• • At 11th level, your unarmed strikes reveal the flow of Ki of your target and you can use this knowledge to make each consecutive blow to the target more powerful.
    
    Whenever you hit a single creature with one of the attacks granted by your Flurry of Blows, you can add your wisdom modifier to the damage rolls for each successful attack performed against the same target.
  • Added feature at level 11

Way of Shadow [Monk]

Minor Buff

Shadow Arts

• You can use your ki to duplicate the effects of certain spells. As an action, you can spend 2 ki points to cast darkness, darkvision, pass without trace, or silence, without providing material components. Additionally, you gain the minor illusion cantrip if you don't already know it. Lastly, you gain darkvision out to a range of 60 feet. If tyou already has darkvision, the darkvision is increased by 30 feet instead.

Shadow Step

• Starting at 6th level, you gain the ability to step from one shadow into another. When you are in dim light or darkness, as an action, bonus action, or reaction, you can teleport up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space you can see that is also in dim light or darkness. You then have advantage on the first melee attack you make before the end of the turn.

Cloak of Shadows

• By 11th level, you have learned to become one with the shadows. When you are in an area of dim light or darkness, you can use your action, bonus action, or reaction to become invisible. You remain invisible until you make an attack, cast a spell, or are in an area of bright light.

Way of the Sun Soul [Monk]

Monks of the Way of the Sun Soul learn to channel their life energy into searing bolts of light. They teach that meditation can unlock the ability to unleash the indomitable light shed by the soul of every living creature.

Radiant Sun

• Starting when you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you gain the following features.
  • Radiant Sun Bolt. You can hurl searing bolts of magical radiance.
    
    When you take the Attack action, you can choose to fire a radiant sun bolt instead of making a regular attack. This special attack is a ranged spell attack with a range of 60 feet. You are proficient with it, and you add your Wisdom modifier to its attack and damage rolls. Its damage is radiant, and its damage die is a d4. This die changes as you gain monk levels, as shown in the Martial Arts column of the Monk table.
    
    When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can make one radiant sun bolt attack as a bonus action, or you can spend 1 ki point to make this special attack twice as a bonus action.
    
    When you gain the Extra Attack feature, this special attack can be used for any of the attacks you make as part of the Attack action.
  • Radiant Sun Stance. You can burn your own life force away for bursts of strength. On your turn, you can begin burning your life force (no action required), which lasts for 1 minute or until you use your action to end it. While it lasts, you are under the following effects:
    • You radiate bright light in a 40-foot radius and dim light 40 feet beyond that. 
    • You gain a +2 bonus to your AC. 
    • When you use this feature—and at the start of each of your turns while it lasts—you lose a number of hit points equal to 1 + half your proficiency bonus, and you gain one temporary ki point. This special ki point works like normal ki, but disappears at the start of your next turn if you don’t spend it. 

Solar Flares

• At 6th level, you can use your inner light in new ways, wielding techniques called solar flares: 
  • Blinding Flare. You can spend 2 ki points as an action to bloom with radiant light. Each creature within 10 feet of you must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or take radiant damage equal to two rolls of your Martial Arts die and become blinded until the start of your next turn. 
  • Body of Plasma. When a creature hits you with a melee attack, you can spend 1 ki point as a reaction to deal fire damage to that creature equal to three rolls of your Martial Arts die. 
  • Lightspeed Surge. You can spend 2 ki points as a bonus action to teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space you can see. Immediately after you appear, each creature within 10 feet of you must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking fire damage equal to three rolls of your Martial Arts die on a failure, or half as much on a success.

Searing Sunburst

• At 11th level, you gain the ability to create an orb of light that erupts into a devastating explosion. As an action, you can spend 1 ki point to create an orb and launch it at a point you choose within 150 feet, where it erupts into a sphere of radiant light for a brief but deadly instant.
  
  Each creature in that 20-foot-radius sphere must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take radiant damage equal to two rolls of your Martial Arts die, or half as much damage on a success. A creature doesn't need to make the save if the creature is behind total cover that is opaque.
  
  You can increase the sphere's damage by spending ki points. Each point you spend increases the damage by two rolls of your Martial Arts die. The maximum number of ki points you can spend on this equals one-third of your monk level, rounded down.

Sun Warrior

• At 17th level, your body becomes suffused with the power of the sun. You gain a flying speed equal to your walking speed, and become wreathed in a luminous, magical aura. You shed bright light in a 80-foot radius and dim light for an additional 80 feet. You can extinguish or restore the light as a bonus action. You gain resistance to fire and radiant damage. You can use your Radiant Sun Stance an unlimited number of times, and it lasts until you end it. 
  
  If a creature hits you with a melee attack while this light shines, you can use your reaction to deal radiant damage to that creature equal to one roll of your Martial Arts die plus your Wisdom modifier. In addition, the creature must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or be blinded until the end of its next turn.
  
  Lastly, you gain the Supernova ability.
  • Supernova. As an action, you can release all your life force in a devastating explosion. You are reduced to 0 hit points. Each creature within 30 feet of you must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or take force damage equal to 40 + the number of hit points you had when you used this feature, or half as much on a success. You can spend ki points to preserve your life force. If you do, you don’t fall unconscious, and you immediately regain 10 hit points for each ki point you spend. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.