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A monk that uses magic-imbued physical attacks and defense. This mod delivers the Weave Monk both as a subclass to the default Monk class, as well as its own stand-alone class with four distinct subclasses. Progressions to level 20.
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Weave Monk can be played either as a subclass of Monk or as its own class with four different subclasses each with their own skills.
Weave Monk Class
The idea is to have a fun magic-infused monk that still engages mostly in melee but has enhanced powers, especially for their unarmed attacks. There are (currently) four subclasses which are partitioned into related magic/damage types, and that could also mean opposite types (e.g. Radiant/Necrotic).
Subclasses
Way of Samsara - This subclass focuses on dealing Radiant and Necrotic damage which it draws from the weave through the continuous cycle of life and death.
Way of Mo'Verdine - This subclass draws power from the flow of the elements of the earth, wind and fire through weave. These monks use their ki to control these energies to imbue their attacks and bolster their defenses.
Way of Eldritch Magic - This subclass captures the haunting and mysterious powers of the weave and enhances their techniques with force and psychic magic.
Way of the Storm Rider - This subclass draws on the elemental energies the power the raging tempest, dealing thunder, lightning and cold damage across a variety of techniques.
Passives
Weave Arts: Agonizing Strikes - Adds Wisdom modifer of Force damage to unarmed attacks
Weave Arts: Swift Strikes - Adds Wisdom + Dexterity modifers of Force damage to unarmed attacks
Weave Arts: Braiding - Allows you to harness damage taken of a specific type that can be unleashed on multiple targets as a separate action. Stacks up to 3x.
Weave Arts: Retribution - Upon taking damage of a specific type, you automatically reflect its reciprocal type back on the attacker.
Weave Arts: Coalesce Braids - Focus your ki and use the weave to amplify the braided energy you've harnessed, doubling the damage when released.
Weave Arts: Ply-Split Braids - You are able to force your ki through the braided energy, unraveling braided magic into additional strands and increasing damage.
Weave Arts: Penitence - You sacrifice part of yourself and take one type of magical damage in order to empower your unarmed attacks with the reciprocal energy type, amplifying it even further.
Weave Arts: Attunement - Grants you advantage when attacking beings aligned with certain magical energies and their disadvantage when attacking you.
Weave Arts: Deeper Attunement - Grants you resistence and +1 AC when being attacked by beings aligned with certain magical energies.
Weave Arts: Fundamental Attunement - Grants you immunity to certain status effects and add your wisdom modifier to your AC when being attacked by beings aligned with certain magical energies.
Weave Arts: Enlightened Attunement - Grants you immunity to certain damage types and add your constitution modifier to your AC when being attacked by beings aligned with certain magical energies.
Class Actions
Weave Arts: Abduction - Submit an enemy and pull them through a weave portal, inflicting multiple types of magic damage and teleporting you both up to 10m.
Weave Arts: Ki Strikes - Infuse your specialized magical energy into an unarmed attack, inflicting status effects and adding magical damage on top of unarmed damage.
Weave Arts: Ki Pulse - Bind your ki to the weave and unleash a concentrated blast of magical energy into everything within 4m.
Weave Arts: Ki Armor - Infuse your body with ki and deal 1d10 Force damage to any create that hits you with a melee attack.
Randori - Attack up to 3 targets in 180 degree arc, dealing an additional 1d4 Force damage and possibly Disarming them.
Advanced Randori - Attack up to 4 targets in 270 degree arc, dealing an additional 1d6 Force damage and possibly Disarming them.
Randori Mastery - Attack up to 5 targets in full circle, dealing an additional 1d8 Force damage and possibly Disarming them.
Holy Hands - Channel your ki into a holy strike and possibly Blind and Turn your target. Additional 1d6 + Wisdom Radiant
Mind Blast - Same as base Illithid spell. 2d6 + Wisdom Psychic + Stun
Sweaty Palms - A soaking unarmed attack that drenches your enemy and creates a water surface.
Cold Snap - A freezing unarmed attack that deals an additional 1d4 Cold damage and creates a icy surface.
Thunder Clap - A earsplitting unarmed attack dealing an additional 1d6 Thunder damage that knocks your opponent back.
Throw Sparks - An unarmed assault dealing lightning damage that branches out to nearby enemies, inflicting 1d8 Lightning to each hit.
Tormenting Blast - Violently wrench eldritch magic from the weave into a beam of torturous energy.
Wrathful Strike - Channel your ki into a menacing strike and possibly Frighten your target. They'll have Disadvantage on Ability Checks and Attack Rolls and be unable to move.
Hateful Strike - Channel your ki into a menacing strike and possibly Frighten and Stun your target. They'll have Disadvantage on Ability Checks and Attack Rolls and be unable to move.
Dreadful Blast - Violently wrench eldritch magic from the weave into a double beam of torturous energy.
Torturous Blast - Violently wrench eldritch magic from the weave into a triple beam of torturous energy.
Withering Hands - Channel ki from the other side into a deadly strike and possibly inflict Necrotic Infection on your target. They'll take additional 1d4 Necrotic damage per turn.
Decaying Hands - Channel ki from the other side into a deadly strike and possibly inflict Necrotic Decay on your target. They'll take additional 1d6 Necrotic damage per turn.
Rotting Hands - Channel ki from the other side into a deadly strike and possibly inflict Necrotic Rot on your target. They'll take additional 1d8 Necrotic damage per turn.
Weave Skin: Bark - Same as Barkskin
Weave Skin: Stone - Same as Stoneskin
Weave Skin: Crystal - Same as Crystalskin
Exhale Frost - Channeling your ki you expel a flurry of frost, crisp air, and condensed snow crystals (180 degrees). 3d6 + Wisdom Cold
Exhale Frost 2 - Channeling your ki you expel a flurry of frost, crisp air, and condensed snow crystals (360 degrees). 6d6 + Wisdom Cold
Cloud of Magma - Conjure a cloud of spinning boulders of magma that hit anyone inside. 2d6 Bludgeoning + 3d6 Fire
Base Progression
Level 1 - Unarmored Defense, Unarmed Damage, Bonus Unarmed Strike (all same as base game Monk)
Subclass Feature: Weave Arts: Braiding
Level 2 - Unarmored Movement, Weave Arts: Agonizing Strikes
Subclass Feature: Weave Arts: Retribution
Level 3 - Feather Fall
Subclass Feature: Weave Arts: Attunement
Level 4 - Slow Fall, Randori
Subclass Feature: Weave Arts: Abduction
Level 5 - Extra Attack, Weave Arts: Coalesce Braids
Level 6 - Unarmored Movement 2 (replaces Unarmored Movement), Weave Arts: Ki Armor
Subclass Feature: Weave Arts: Penitence
Level 7 - Evasion, Advanced Randori (replaces Randori)
Level 8 - Weave Arts: Swift Strikes (replaces Agonizing Strikes)
Subclass Feature: Weave Arts: Deeper Attunement (replaces Attunement)
Level 9 - Unarmored Movement: Difficult Terrain
Subclass Feature: Ki Strikes
Level 10 - Unarmored Movement 3 (replaces Unarmored Movement 2), Weave Arts: Ply-Split Braids
Level 11 - Randori Mastery (replaces Advanced Randori)
Level 12 - Subclass Feature: Weave Arts: Fundamental Attunement (replaces Deeper Attunement)
Subclass Feature: Ki Pulse
Level 15 - Subclass Feature: Weave Arts: Enlightened Attunement (replaces Fundamental Attunement)
Way of Samsara
Level 1 - Weave Arts: Braid Death
Level 3 - Withering Hands
Level 5 - Holy Hands
Level 7 - Decaying Hands (replaces Withering Hands)
Level 9 - Sun Strike, Soul Strike
Level 10 - Rotting Hands (replaces Decaying Hands)
Level 12 - Ki Pulse Necrotic, Ki Pulse Radiant
Way of Mo'Verdine
Level 1 - Weave Arts: Braid Fire
Level 3 - Weave Skin: Bark
Level 7 - Weave Skin: Stone
Level 9 - Ember Strike, Wind Strike
Level 10 - Cloud of Magma
Level 11 - Weave Skin: Crystal
Level 12 - Ki Pulse Fire, Ki Pulse Wind, Ki Pulse Stone
Way of Eldritch Magic
Level 1 - Weave Arts: Braid Psionics
Level 3 - Tormenting Blast, Wrathful Strike
Level 5 - Mind Blast
Level 7 - Dreadful Blast (replaces Tormenting Blast), Hateful Strike (replaces Wrathful Strike)
Level 9 - Eldritch Strike
Level 10 - Baleful Strike (replaces Hateful Strike)
Level 11 - Torturous Blast (replaces Dreadful Blast)
Level 12 - Ki Pulse Eldritch, Harrowing Strike (replaces Baleful Strike)
Way of the Storm Rider
Level 1 - Weave Arts: Braid Lightning, Sweaty Palms
Level 2 - Cold Snap
Level 3 - Thunder Clap
Level 4 - Throw Sparks
Level 5 - Exhale Frost
Level 9 - Storm Strike
Level 10 - Exhale Frost 2 (replaces Exhale Frost)
Level 12 - Ki Pulse Storm, Ki Pulse Blizzard
Monk Subclass
Standard subclass of the default Monk class, selectable at level 3. While this version does not provide all of the features and spells of the stand-alone version it does allow you to mix and match the abilities and spells of the weave schools as you progress.
Progression
Level 3 - Arcana proficiency; Passive: Weave Arts: Braiding; Passive: Weave Arts: Retribution; Action from L3 list (x1)
Level 4 - Passive: Weave Arts: Attunement; Action: Weave Arts: Abduction; Action from L3 list (x1)
Level 5 - Passive: Weave Arts: Coalesce Braids; Action from L5 list (x1); Action from L3 list (x1)
Level 6 - Passive: Weave Arts: Penitence (x2); Action from L5 list (x1)
Level 7 - Action from L7 list (x1)
Level 8 - Passive: Weave Arts: Retribution; Passive: Weave Arts: Deeper Attunement
Level 9 - Action: Strike (x2)
Level 10 - Passive: Weave Arts: Ply-Split Braids; Action from L5 (x1) and from L7 (x1)
Level 11 - Action from L11 list (x2)
Level 12 - Passive: Weave Arts: Fundamental Attunement; Add Action: Ki Pulse (x2)
Level 13 - Passive: Weave Arts: Braiding; Action from L11 list (x1
Level 14 - Action: Weave Arts: Abduction
Level 15 - Passive: Weave Arts: Penitence (x2)
Level 16 - Passive: Weave Arts: Enlightened Attunement; Add Action: Strike (x2)
Level 17 - Add Action: Ki Pulse (x2)
Lists
Level 3: Sweaty Palms, Cold Snap, Thunder Clap, Tormenting Blast, Wrathful Strike, Withering Hands, Weave Skin: Bark
Level 5: Holy Hands, Mind Blast, Throw Sparks, Exhale Frost, Ki Armor
Level 7: Hateful Strike, Decaying Hands, Dreadful Blast, Weave Skin: Stone
Level 11: Rotting Hands, Torturous Blast, Weave Skin: Crystal, Cloud of Magma, Exhale Frost 2
Ki Strikes: Sun (Radiant), Soul (Necrotic), Ember (Fire), Wind, Eldritch (Force/Psychic), Storm (Thunder/Lightning/Cold)
Ki Pulses: Radiant, Necrotic, Fire, WInd, Stone, Eldritch, Storm, Blizzard
Disclaimers & Credits
This is my first mod and mostly just wanted to figure out how the toolkit and its systems worked. I really like playing monks during my play-throughs and tried a handful of different mods that introduce new subclasses. I wanted to try to mix more magic into the class but as melee options. I haven't really play-tested this so I have no idea how the skills scale in-game. Also, there's still oddities I haven't figured out like why some actions show up as spells and others do not.
The class and spell icons are all over the place, most are generated with either Gemini or Craiyon and edited with GIMP, some are just recycled from the base game. I may try to normalize these at some point. Some suck. Some are kinda cool. None match. Whatever.
I didn't duplicate all the details and damage output for all actions and spells here. Many scale like cantrips.
Happy to hear feedback, might even implement requests or suggestions. Hope someone enjoys it.
If you got the Mo'Verdine reference - right on, let's groove.
Shout out to Larian for an epic game and anyone who ever tried to make a mod and put it out there to spread the fun. You all rock.
Weave Monk Class
The idea is to have a fun magic-infused monk that still engages mostly in melee but has enhanced powers, especially for their unarmed attacks. There are (currently) four subclasses which are partitioned into related magic/damage types, and that could also mean opposite types (e.g. Radiant/Necrotic).
Subclasses
Way of Samsara - This subclass focuses on dealing Radiant and Necrotic damage which it draws from the weave through the continuous cycle of life and death.
Way of Mo'Verdine - This subclass draws power from the flow of the elements of the earth, wind and fire through weave. These monks use their ki to control these energies to imbue their attacks and bolster their defenses.
Way of Eldritch Magic - This subclass captures the haunting and mysterious powers of the weave and enhances their techniques with force and psychic magic.
Way of the Storm Rider - This subclass draws on the elemental energies the power the raging tempest, dealing thunder, lightning and cold damage across a variety of techniques.
Passives
Weave Arts: Agonizing Strikes - Adds Wisdom modifer of Force damage to unarmed attacks
Weave Arts: Swift Strikes - Adds Wisdom + Dexterity modifers of Force damage to unarmed attacks
Weave Arts: Braiding - Allows you to harness damage taken of a specific type that can be unleashed on multiple targets as a separate action. Stacks up to 3x.
Weave Arts: Retribution - Upon taking damage of a specific type, you automatically reflect its reciprocal type back on the attacker.
Weave Arts: Coalesce Braids - Focus your ki and use the weave to amplify the braided energy you've harnessed, doubling the damage when released.
Weave Arts: Ply-Split Braids - You are able to force your ki through the braided energy, unraveling braided magic into additional strands and increasing damage.
Weave Arts: Penitence - You sacrifice part of yourself and take one type of magical damage in order to empower your unarmed attacks with the reciprocal energy type, amplifying it even further.
Weave Arts: Attunement - Grants you advantage when attacking beings aligned with certain magical energies and their disadvantage when attacking you.
Weave Arts: Deeper Attunement - Grants you resistence and +1 AC when being attacked by beings aligned with certain magical energies.
Weave Arts: Fundamental Attunement - Grants you immunity to certain status effects and add your wisdom modifier to your AC when being attacked by beings aligned with certain magical energies.
Weave Arts: Enlightened Attunement - Grants you immunity to certain damage types and add your constitution modifier to your AC when being attacked by beings aligned with certain magical energies.
Class Actions
Weave Arts: Abduction - Submit an enemy and pull them through a weave portal, inflicting multiple types of magic damage and teleporting you both up to 10m.
Weave Arts: Ki Strikes - Infuse your specialized magical energy into an unarmed attack, inflicting status effects and adding magical damage on top of unarmed damage.
Weave Arts: Ki Pulse - Bind your ki to the weave and unleash a concentrated blast of magical energy into everything within 4m.
Weave Arts: Ki Armor - Infuse your body with ki and deal 1d10 Force damage to any create that hits you with a melee attack.
Randori - Attack up to 3 targets in 180 degree arc, dealing an additional 1d4 Force damage and possibly Disarming them.
Advanced Randori - Attack up to 4 targets in 270 degree arc, dealing an additional 1d6 Force damage and possibly Disarming them.
Randori Mastery - Attack up to 5 targets in full circle, dealing an additional 1d8 Force damage and possibly Disarming them.
Holy Hands - Channel your ki into a holy strike and possibly Blind and Turn your target. Additional 1d6 + Wisdom Radiant
Mind Blast - Same as base Illithid spell. 2d6 + Wisdom Psychic + Stun
Sweaty Palms - A soaking unarmed attack that drenches your enemy and creates a water surface.
Cold Snap - A freezing unarmed attack that deals an additional 1d4 Cold damage and creates a icy surface.
Thunder Clap - A earsplitting unarmed attack dealing an additional 1d6 Thunder damage that knocks your opponent back.
Throw Sparks - An unarmed assault dealing lightning damage that branches out to nearby enemies, inflicting 1d8 Lightning to each hit.
Tormenting Blast - Violently wrench eldritch magic from the weave into a beam of torturous energy.
Wrathful Strike - Channel your ki into a menacing strike and possibly Frighten your target. They'll have Disadvantage on Ability Checks and Attack Rolls and be unable to move.
Hateful Strike - Channel your ki into a menacing strike and possibly Frighten and Stun your target. They'll have Disadvantage on Ability Checks and Attack Rolls and be unable to move.
Dreadful Blast - Violently wrench eldritch magic from the weave into a double beam of torturous energy.
Torturous Blast - Violently wrench eldritch magic from the weave into a triple beam of torturous energy.
Withering Hands - Channel ki from the other side into a deadly strike and possibly inflict Necrotic Infection on your target. They'll take additional 1d4 Necrotic damage per turn.
Decaying Hands - Channel ki from the other side into a deadly strike and possibly inflict Necrotic Decay on your target. They'll take additional 1d6 Necrotic damage per turn.
Rotting Hands - Channel ki from the other side into a deadly strike and possibly inflict Necrotic Rot on your target. They'll take additional 1d8 Necrotic damage per turn.
Weave Skin: Bark - Same as Barkskin
Weave Skin: Stone - Same as Stoneskin
Weave Skin: Crystal - Same as Crystalskin
Exhale Frost - Channeling your ki you expel a flurry of frost, crisp air, and condensed snow crystals (180 degrees). 3d6 + Wisdom Cold
Exhale Frost 2 - Channeling your ki you expel a flurry of frost, crisp air, and condensed snow crystals (360 degrees). 6d6 + Wisdom Cold
Cloud of Magma - Conjure a cloud of spinning boulders of magma that hit anyone inside. 2d6 Bludgeoning + 3d6 Fire
Base Progression
Level 1 - Unarmored Defense, Unarmed Damage, Bonus Unarmed Strike (all same as base game Monk)
Subclass Feature: Weave Arts: Braiding
Level 2 - Unarmored Movement, Weave Arts: Agonizing Strikes
Subclass Feature: Weave Arts: Retribution
Level 3 - Feather Fall
Subclass Feature: Weave Arts: Attunement
Level 4 - Slow Fall, Randori
Subclass Feature: Weave Arts: Abduction
Level 5 - Extra Attack, Weave Arts: Coalesce Braids
Level 6 - Unarmored Movement 2 (replaces Unarmored Movement), Weave Arts: Ki Armor
Subclass Feature: Weave Arts: Penitence
Level 7 - Evasion, Advanced Randori (replaces Randori)
Level 8 - Weave Arts: Swift Strikes (replaces Agonizing Strikes)
Subclass Feature: Weave Arts: Deeper Attunement (replaces Attunement)
Level 9 - Unarmored Movement: Difficult Terrain
Subclass Feature: Ki Strikes
Level 10 - Unarmored Movement 3 (replaces Unarmored Movement 2), Weave Arts: Ply-Split Braids
Level 11 - Randori Mastery (replaces Advanced Randori)
Level 12 - Subclass Feature: Weave Arts: Fundamental Attunement (replaces Deeper Attunement)
Subclass Feature: Ki Pulse
Level 15 - Subclass Feature: Weave Arts: Enlightened Attunement (replaces Fundamental Attunement)
Way of Samsara
Level 1 - Weave Arts: Braid Death
Level 3 - Withering Hands
Level 5 - Holy Hands
Level 7 - Decaying Hands (replaces Withering Hands)
Level 9 - Sun Strike, Soul Strike
Level 10 - Rotting Hands (replaces Decaying Hands)
Level 12 - Ki Pulse Necrotic, Ki Pulse Radiant
Way of Mo'Verdine
Level 1 - Weave Arts: Braid Fire
Level 3 - Weave Skin: Bark
Level 7 - Weave Skin: Stone
Level 9 - Ember Strike, Wind Strike
Level 10 - Cloud of Magma
Level 11 - Weave Skin: Crystal
Level 12 - Ki Pulse Fire, Ki Pulse Wind, Ki Pulse Stone
Way of Eldritch Magic
Level 1 - Weave Arts: Braid Psionics
Level 3 - Tormenting Blast, Wrathful Strike
Level 5 - Mind Blast
Level 7 - Dreadful Blast (replaces Tormenting Blast), Hateful Strike (replaces Wrathful Strike)
Level 9 - Eldritch Strike
Level 10 - Baleful Strike (replaces Hateful Strike)
Level 11 - Torturous Blast (replaces Dreadful Blast)
Level 12 - Ki Pulse Eldritch, Harrowing Strike (replaces Baleful Strike)
Way of the Storm Rider
Level 1 - Weave Arts: Braid Lightning, Sweaty Palms
Level 2 - Cold Snap
Level 3 - Thunder Clap
Level 4 - Throw Sparks
Level 5 - Exhale Frost
Level 9 - Storm Strike
Level 10 - Exhale Frost 2 (replaces Exhale Frost)
Level 12 - Ki Pulse Storm, Ki Pulse Blizzard
Monk Subclass
Standard subclass of the default Monk class, selectable at level 3. While this version does not provide all of the features and spells of the stand-alone version it does allow you to mix and match the abilities and spells of the weave schools as you progress.
Progression
Level 3 - Arcana proficiency; Passive: Weave Arts: Braiding; Passive: Weave Arts: Retribution; Action from L3 list (x1)
Level 4 - Passive: Weave Arts: Attunement; Action: Weave Arts: Abduction; Action from L3 list (x1)
Level 5 - Passive: Weave Arts: Coalesce Braids; Action from L5 list (x1); Action from L3 list (x1)
Level 6 - Passive: Weave Arts: Penitence (x2); Action from L5 list (x1)
Level 7 - Action from L7 list (x1)
Level 8 - Passive: Weave Arts: Retribution; Passive: Weave Arts: Deeper Attunement
Level 9 - Action: Strike (x2)
Level 10 - Passive: Weave Arts: Ply-Split Braids; Action from L5 (x1) and from L7 (x1)
Level 11 - Action from L11 list (x2)
Level 12 - Passive: Weave Arts: Fundamental Attunement; Add Action: Ki Pulse (x2)
Level 13 - Passive: Weave Arts: Braiding; Action from L11 list (x1
Level 14 - Action: Weave Arts: Abduction
Level 15 - Passive: Weave Arts: Penitence (x2)
Level 16 - Passive: Weave Arts: Enlightened Attunement; Add Action: Strike (x2)
Level 17 - Add Action: Ki Pulse (x2)
Lists
Level 3: Sweaty Palms, Cold Snap, Thunder Clap, Tormenting Blast, Wrathful Strike, Withering Hands, Weave Skin: Bark
Level 5: Holy Hands, Mind Blast, Throw Sparks, Exhale Frost, Ki Armor
Level 7: Hateful Strike, Decaying Hands, Dreadful Blast, Weave Skin: Stone
Level 11: Rotting Hands, Torturous Blast, Weave Skin: Crystal, Cloud of Magma, Exhale Frost 2
Ki Strikes: Sun (Radiant), Soul (Necrotic), Ember (Fire), Wind, Eldritch (Force/Psychic), Storm (Thunder/Lightning/Cold)
Ki Pulses: Radiant, Necrotic, Fire, WInd, Stone, Eldritch, Storm, Blizzard
Disclaimers & Credits
This is my first mod and mostly just wanted to figure out how the toolkit and its systems worked. I really like playing monks during my play-throughs and tried a handful of different mods that introduce new subclasses. I wanted to try to mix more magic into the class but as melee options. I haven't really play-tested this so I have no idea how the skills scale in-game. Also, there's still oddities I haven't figured out like why some actions show up as spells and others do not.
The class and spell icons are all over the place, most are generated with either Gemini or Craiyon and edited with GIMP, some are just recycled from the base game. I may try to normalize these at some point. Some suck. Some are kinda cool. None match. Whatever.
I didn't duplicate all the details and damage output for all actions and spells here. Many scale like cantrips.
Happy to hear feedback, might even implement requests or suggestions. Hope someone enjoys it.
If you got the Mo'Verdine reference - right on, let's groove.
Shout out to Larian for an epic game and anyone who ever tried to make a mod and put it out there to spread the fun. You all rock.