quinron
2016-10-18, 01:43 AM
Designed to work well for aarakocra, but not to be exclusive to them. Made in a bit of a hurry; could use some feedback.
BONUS PROFICIENCY
When you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with battleaxes, longswords, and scimitars. You treat these weapons as monk weapons.
KEEN CLAWS
Starting at 3rd level, you are especially deadly when striking to tear and cut. When you make a melee weapon attack and deal slashing damage with a damage die equal to or smaller than the die used for your unarmed strikes (as shown in the Martial Arts column of the Monk table), you deal increased damage as shown on the table below.
If another feature, such as an aarakocra's talons or the Furious Form feature, causes your unarmed strikes to deal slashing damage, this feature can increase their damage once.
Normal Damage
Keen Claws Damage
1d4
1d6
1d6
1d8
1d8
1d10
1d10
1d12
DIVEBOMB
At 6th level, you learn to strike from above as decisively as from the side. When you fall at least 10 feet into another creature's space and use your reaction to reduce falling damage, the creature must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw. On a success, the creature is unaffected, and you land 5 feet away from the creature in a random direction. On a failure, the creature takes damage equal to the number of feet you fell divided by 10 (rounded down), up to a maximum of 20, and if the creature is Large or smaller, it is pushed 5 feet away from you in a random direction and knocked prone. The damage is of the same type as your unarmed strikes.
VICIOUS IMPACT
At 11th level, you gain the ability to turn your momentum into a mighty blow. When you move at least 30 feet straight toward a target and then hit with a melee weapon attack on the same turn, the target takes the attack’s maximum damage.
FURIOUS FORM
Starting at 17th level, you can channel your ki to alter your very body. As a bonus action, you can spend 3 ki points to transform for 1 minute. While transformed, your unarmed strikes deal slashing damage, and you gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with your unarmed strikes. You can spend additional ki points as part of your transformation to increase this bonus: 2 extra points to increase it to +2, or 5 extra points to increase it to +3.
EDIT: Added shove to Divebomb in accordance with post #3, removed 1 ki point cost from Vicious Impact.
BONUS PROFICIENCY
When you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with battleaxes, longswords, and scimitars. You treat these weapons as monk weapons.
KEEN CLAWS
Starting at 3rd level, you are especially deadly when striking to tear and cut. When you make a melee weapon attack and deal slashing damage with a damage die equal to or smaller than the die used for your unarmed strikes (as shown in the Martial Arts column of the Monk table), you deal increased damage as shown on the table below.
If another feature, such as an aarakocra's talons or the Furious Form feature, causes your unarmed strikes to deal slashing damage, this feature can increase their damage once.
Normal Damage
Keen Claws Damage
1d4
1d6
1d6
1d8
1d8
1d10
1d10
1d12
DIVEBOMB
At 6th level, you learn to strike from above as decisively as from the side. When you fall at least 10 feet into another creature's space and use your reaction to reduce falling damage, the creature must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw. On a success, the creature is unaffected, and you land 5 feet away from the creature in a random direction. On a failure, the creature takes damage equal to the number of feet you fell divided by 10 (rounded down), up to a maximum of 20, and if the creature is Large or smaller, it is pushed 5 feet away from you in a random direction and knocked prone. The damage is of the same type as your unarmed strikes.
VICIOUS IMPACT
At 11th level, you gain the ability to turn your momentum into a mighty blow. When you move at least 30 feet straight toward a target and then hit with a melee weapon attack on the same turn, the target takes the attack’s maximum damage.
FURIOUS FORM
Starting at 17th level, you can channel your ki to alter your very body. As a bonus action, you can spend 3 ki points to transform for 1 minute. While transformed, your unarmed strikes deal slashing damage, and you gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls made with your unarmed strikes. You can spend additional ki points as part of your transformation to increase this bonus: 2 extra points to increase it to +2, or 5 extra points to increase it to +3.
EDIT: Added shove to Divebomb in accordance with post #3, removed 1 ki point cost from Vicious Impact.