Potestas: a D&D3E supplement

Chapter Three: Classes

Wuxia (PHB, was Monk)

Description

There are monastic communities across Arda. Some are religious communities devoted to the True Faith. Others are instead communities of people seeking physical perfection through discipline, action, and contemplation - wuxia. They train themselves to be versatile warriors, skilled at fighting without weapons or armour. Through this training they seek to achieve a state of perfection that is beyond mortality.

• Characteristics: the key feature of the wuxia is that they can fight unarmed and unarmoured. Thank to their rigorous training, wuxia can strike as hard and as fast as (or faster than) other combatants. Though they do not cast spells, wuxia tap into a natural inner energy, called ki in Khitai, which allows them to perform amazing feats.
• Religion: a wuxia's training is disciplined and structured, but ultimately irreligious. While some wuxia follow the True Faith and some follow the pagan gods, the great majority focus on the natural world and ki.
• Background: wuxia originated in Khitai, but the traditions have long since spread east across Arda and are now known even in Selentia. There are many different wuxia traditions that sometimes compete with each other. All wuxia recognise each other as a select group set apart from the rest of the world, but usually want to compete and see whose ki is strongest rather than cooperate together.

Game Rule Information

• Weapon Proficiency: wuxia are proficient with all simple weapons.
• Unarmed Strike: wuxia automatically gain the Flurry of Blows and the Improved Unarmed Strike feats at 1st level.
• Unarmed Damage: wuxia are skilled at using their ki to inflict greater damage with their unarmed attacks. A wuxia's unarmed damage increases by two steps at 1st level, and then increases by one step at 4th wuxia level and every four levels thereafter (that is, three steps at 4th wuxia level, four steps at 8th wuxia level, and so on). Damage shifts along the following scale: 1d2 - 1d3 - 1d4 - 1d6 - 1d8 - 1d10 - 2d6 - 2d8 - 2d10.
• Ki Strike: wuxia are able to bypass Damage Reduction as their unarmed damage increases. A wuxia's unarmed attacks can bypass DR/magic when their damage has increased by three steps and bypass DR/adamantine when their damage has increased by six steps.
• Sixth Sense: wuxia can anticipate attacks before they occur. A wuxia adds their Wisdom bonus (if any) to Armour Class when wearing no armour. This bonus increases by +1 at 5th level and every five levels thereafter.
• Fast Movement: wuxia have additional speed when wearing no armour as long as they are not carrying a heavy load. A wuxia gains +10 feet enhancement bonus at 3rd wuxia level and every three levels thereafter.
• Bonus Combat Feats: wuxia get a bonus combat feat at 1st level, 2nd level, 4th level, and every three levels thereafter.
• Evasion: wuxia gain Evasion as a special ability at 2nd class level. If the wuxia already has the Evasion special ability and is 11th character level or higher, they gain Improved Evasion.
• Improved Evasion: wuxia who are 10th character level or higher may gain Improved Evasion as a special ability by spending a bonus feat.
• Special Abilities: wuxia have various special abilities according to their class level.
• 1st level - Sixth Sense (Wisdom bonus to AC when wearing no armour)
• 2nd level - Evasion (take no damage on successful Reflex saves), bonus feat
• 3rd level - Still Mind (bonus against Enchantment spells and effects), +10 fast movement
• 4th level - Ki Strike (magic), increased damage, bonus feat
• 5th level - Purity of Body (immune to non-magical diseases), improved AC
• 6th level - +10 fast movement
• 7th level - Wholeness of Body (heal personal damage), bonus feat
• 8th level - increased damage
• 9th level - Diamond Body (immunity to poisons), +10 fast movement
• 10th level - bonus feat, improved AC
• 11th level - Abundant Step (dimension door once per day)
• 12th level - +10 fast movement, increased damage
• 13th level - Diamond Soul (spell resistance), bonus feat
• 15th level - Tongue of the Sun and Moon (communicate with any intelligent creature), +10 fast movement, improved AC
• 16th level - Ki Strike (adamantine), increased damage, bonus feat
• 17th level - Timeless Body (immune to non-magical aging effects)
• 18th level - +10 fast movement
• 19th level - Empty Body (etherealness for one round per level per day), bonus feat
• 20th level - Perfect Self (become an arcane creature), increased damage, improved AC

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