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Monastic
About this class
The Monastic class combines the physical resilience of the Bone domain with the pious power of Splendor. Your playstyle is that of a mobile, versatile enchanter who seamlessly pivots between enduring punishing blows and channeling blinding bursts of divine support. At the table, emphasize the narrative toll this power takes: lean into the discipline of your vows, and describe how your abilities visibly strain your body, whether through the audible snapping of bones resetting or the unsettling brilliance of your exhausted soul.
Domains
Splendor
Bone
Starting stats
Hope feature
Class features
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Divine Aura
At will, you can manifest an aura around you at Very Close range, evoking the aspects of your deity. Your appearance can be enhanced or altered, you can brighten or darken the area, shift the temperature, and create sounds or smells or other harmless effects.
Once per rest, when manifesting such aura, you can channel its divine powers through your body to give it tangible shape. When you do so, choose up to 5 targets inside the aura, marking a Stress for each of them, and choose one of the following effects:
- Rebuke: Chosen adversaries must immediately move out to Close range or take d10 magical damage, using your Proficiency.
- Strain: Chosen adversaries must make a Reaction Roll (10), marking 2 Stress on a failure, or 1 Stress on a success.
- Calm: Chosen allies clear 1 Stress or gain 2 Hope.
- Find Purpose: Chosen allies double their Experience bonus on their next roll that utilizes an Experience.
Class items
- Sealed Enigma
- Monastery Censer
Character questions
Background prompts
- What permanent mark did your initial awakening leave on your body or soul, and how does it react when you draw upon your power?
- What sin or emotion did you have to purge or deeply bury to gain your connection to the divine, and what is the first warning sign that this seal is beginning to crack?
- Your Monastery lives by a strict ascetic or spiritual vow. What part of that vow do you secretly struggle with the most?
Connection prompts
- What simple, everyday joy that I’ve never known in the Monastery did you introduce me to that I’ve become very fond of?
- When I channel the divine, you are one of the few who don't shrink in fear. What is it about my presence that makes you feel safe rather than afraid?
- We once shared a pair of similar life stories. What were those tales, and what sudden epiphany did they bring us both to?
Subclass cards
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Vow of a Brahmin
Foundation
SPELLCAST TRAIT: Instinct
Stoicism: You gain an additional Stress slot.
Energetic Anatomy: Whenever you use a Domain Card or a Feature to clear Hit Points or Stress on an ally or yourself, you can spend 1 Hope to increase the number cleared by 1.
Vow of a Brahmin
Specialization
Meditation: After taking a Rest, roll a d6 to gain that many Meditation Tokens. You can immediately distribute these Tokens freely among yourself and allies to clear 1 Hit Point or 1 Stress per Token spent.
Alternatively, you can keep a number of Tokens up to your current Tier until your next rest. At any time, you can spend a kept Token to exchange 1 Hit Point for 1 Stress, or 1 Stress for 1 Hit Point.
Vow of a Brahmin
Mastery
Chakra Sense: You gain an extra d6 to your Meditation Token rolls. Also, once per session, you can target a creature's Chakra to use a d20 as your Hope die for an action roll against them. If you score a Success with Fear on that roll, you can convert it into a Success with Hope.
Vow of a Priest
Foundation
SPELLCAST TRAIT: Presence
1: 1
Vow of a Priest
Specialization
2: 2
Vow of a Priest
Mastery
3: 3
Vow of a Monk
Foundation
SPELLCAST TRAIT: Finesse
1: 1
Vow of a Monk
Specialization
2: 2
Vow of a Monk
Mastery
3: 3
Monastic
The Monastic class combines the physical resilience of the Bone domain with the pious power of Splendor. Your playstyle is that of a mobile, versatile enchanter who seamlessly pivots between enduring punishing blows and channeling blinding bursts of divine support. At the table, emphasize the narrative toll this power takes: lean into the discipline of your vows, and describe how your abilities visibly strain your body, whether through the audible snapping of bones resetting or the unsettling brilliance of your exhausted soul.
Domains
Splendor + Bone
Starting Evasion
11
Starting Hit Points
6
Class Items
- • Sealed Enigma
- • Monastery Censer
Monastic’s Hope Feature
Purify : Spend 3 Hope to allow all targets in Close range to make a reaction roll to get rid of a condition applied to them. If the condition's Difficulty is equal to or lower than 15, they succeed automatically.
Class Features
Divine Aura
At will, you can manifest an aura around you at Very Close range, evoking the aspects of your deity. Your appearance can be enhanced or altered, you can brighten or darken the area, shift the temperature, and create sounds or smells or other harmless effects. Once per rest, when manifesting such aura, you can channel its divine powers through your body to give it tangible shape. When you do so, choose up to 5 targets inside the aura, marking a Stress for each of them, and choose one of the following effects: - Rebuke: Chosen adversaries must immediately move out to Close range or take d10 magical damage, using your Proficiency. - Strain: Chosen adversaries must make a Reaction Roll (10), marking 2 Stress on a failure, or 1 Stress on a success. - Calm: Chosen allies clear 1 Stress or gain 2 Hope. - Find Purpose: Chosen allies double their Experience bonus on their next roll that utilizes an Experience.
Monastic Subclasses
Choose either the Vow of a Brahmin or Vow of a Priest subclass.
Vow of a Brahmin
Cultivate energetic secrets by mastering your body.
Spellcast Trait
Instinct
Foundation Features
Stoicism: You gain an additional Stress slot.
Energetic Anatomy: Whenever you use a Domain Card or a Feature to clear Hit Points or Stress on an ally or yourself, you can spend 1 Hope to increase the number cleared by 1.
Specialization Feature
Meditation: After taking a Rest, roll a d6 to gain that many Meditation Tokens. You can immediately distribute these Tokens freely among yourself and allies to clear 1 Hit Point or 1 Stress per Token spent.
Alternatively, you can keep a number of Tokens up to your current Tier until your next rest. At any time, you can spend a kept Token to exchange 1 Hit Point for 1 Stress, or 1 Stress for 1 Hit Point.
Mastery Feature
Chakra Sense: You gain an extra d6 to your Meditation Token rolls. Also, once per session, you can target a creature's Chakra to use a d20 as your Hope die for an action roll against them. If you score a Success with Fear on that roll, you can convert it into a Success with Hope.
Vow of a Priest
Spread the light among those who listen.
Spellcast Trait
Presence
Foundation Features
1: 1
Specialization Feature
2: 2
Mastery Feature
3: 3
Background Questions
Answer any of the following, or create your own.
- • What permanent mark did your initial awakening leave on your body or soul, and how does it react when you draw upon your power?
- • What sin or emotion did you have to purge or deeply bury to gain your connection to the divine, and what is the first warning sign that this seal is beginning to crack?
- • Your Monastery lives by a strict ascetic or spiritual vow. What part of that vow do you secretly struggle with the most?
Connections
Ask one of the following, or improvise.
- • What simple, everyday joy that I’ve never known in the Monastery did you introduce me to that I’ve become very fond of?
- • When I channel the divine, you are one of the few who don't shrink in fear. What is it about my presence that makes you feel safe rather than afraid?
- • We once shared a pair of similar life stories. What were those tales, and what sudden epiphany did they bring us both to?
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