Way of the Clenched Fist (5e Subclass)
Way of the Clenched Fist[edit]
The clenched fist tradition exists as an opposite style to the open hand tradition. While the latter focus on internal control of energy, the former concentrate the training in the external application of force, being a hard style that put emphasis in putting as much strength as powerful in each strike, and enduring harm, instead of avoiding it.
- Clenched Fist Technique
Starting when you choose this tradition at 3rd level, you can use your ki to empower your strikes. Once in each of your turns when you hit a creature with a unarmed strike granted by your flurry of blows, you roll your martial arts die one additional time to calculate damage.
In addition, you cause maximum damage when you hit objects and structures with your unarmed strikes.
- Iron Body
At 6th level, you gain the ability to enhance your resistance against attacks. When you spend at least 1 ki point on a ki feature, you become resistant to bludgeoning, slashing and piercing damage until the start of your next turn.
- Aggressiveness
Beginning at 11th level, you can let yourself be controlled by emotions and anger while fighting. Whenever you take damage from an attack made an opponent within 5 feet, you can use your reaction to make an unarmed strike against the attacker. You roll your martial arts die twice on a hit.
- Iron Fist
At 17th level, you gain the ability to concentrate your ki into a single destructive strike. When you hit a creature with a unarmed attack, you can spend 1 ki point to deal additional damage equal to 2d10 per ki point spent and the target is pushed up to 30 feet back.
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