Monk | Legends of Nor'Ova

Profession: Monk

Role: Unarmed DPS, Tank, Dodge Tank

Starting Gear: Leather Brigandine

Pay Rate: N/A

Gen Dice:

Vitality Creation 1d20 Level Up/Rest 1d6
Soul Creation 1d8 Level Up/Rest 1d4
Power Creation 1d20 Level Up/Rest 1d8

Weapon & Armor Types:

Monks use their bodies as weapons, therefore they don't need actual weapons
Can use gloves, gauntlets, as well as nunchucks, katanas, and rods with no penalties
Monks can only wear light armor and can't use shields. Monks gain a +3 Evasion for no armor or +1 Evasion for light armor.

Specialty:

Monks train their bodies to be as hard as steel. For that reason, Monks have a natural 2 Armor Defense and a +1 on all Defense checks.

You have dedicated your life to perfecting your body as both a weapon and a shield. You are not the initial heavy-hitter or the tank, but you will be the last one standing.

The Monk Profession is all about fine tuning ones body as the perfect weapon.

Effects on Weapon Usage

Monks use their bodies as weapons, therefore they don't need actual weapons. They can use anything that would add to their punching or kicking, such as gloves, gauntlets, as well as nunchucks, katanas, and rods. While a monk will learn to use other weapons, they will require the weapon's related proficiency skill to use them.

Effects on Armor Usage

Monks can only wear light armor and can't use shields. Monks gain a +3 Evasion for no armor or +1 Evasion for light armor.

Profession Level Progression

Monks are masters of inner peace and body honing. They can make their bodies powerful weapons and can become hard to hit.

Monks progress following the Monk Node Chart.

In order to progress to the next level you need to meet the required nodes and pay the progression XP cost.
Each node cost XP to acquire.
You can only acquire the nodes for your profession.
You can acquire as many nodes as you want, but you must acquire the minimum required nodes to progress to the next level.
You get your gen dice rolls for Vitality, Soul, and Power at each new level.

Skills

Monks specialize in skills that better hone their bodies as weapons.

Monk Skills Progression

Monk Skills

Monk Skills are categorized into Martial Arts Skills, Martial Weapon Skills, Chi Skills, and Empowerment/Support Skills.

Martial Arts Skills

Action Type: 🔗 Skill Chain Action
Skill	Action Type	Skill Types	Stat Cost	Range & Area	Duration	Check Roll	Effects	Requirements
Extra Attack	🔗 Skill Chain Action	ᯓ➤ Fast Action	8 Power	self	instant	Impossible React	Get a full extra attack that you can use, including using skills.	Powered Blow
Powered Blow	🔗 Skill Chain Action	💪 Empowerment	Power Spent	weapon's range affecting 1 target	instant	Challenging Focus	Increase the damage of your attack by spending Power into your attack. 1 Power = 1 extra damage. You may spend up to your current Offensive Power score in Power for this skill. Should you roll a natural 20 on the Focus check, the total Power investment is doubled and added to the damage instead. You can use this skill with other attack skills.	Power Rush
Powered Hit	🔗 Skill Chain Action	☯️ Chi	1/2 Vitality	1 space in front affecting 1 target	instant	Hard Focus	Pour all of yourself into your hit, increasing your damage by your Level Up/Rest Vitality Gen Dice. You can use this skill with any attack skill.	Vitality Empowerment

Action Type: ⚔️ Attack Action
Skill	Action Type	Skill Types	Stat Cost	Range & Area	Duration	Check Roll	Effects	Requirements
Eye Gouger	⚔️ Attack Action	🕶 Vision Status Effect	4 Power	1 space in front affecting 1 target	instant	Normal Focus	A directed hit to one of the target's eyes with 2 fingers which deals 1d3 damage but also causes visual instability for 1d4 rounds. A critical hit will cause blindness for 1d4 rounds followed by visual instability for 1d4 rounds.	Focused Punch
Flip Kick	⚔️ Attack Action	⚡⚡ Stun Effect	8 Power	1 space in front or behind you	instant	Impossible Athletics	Flip in the air forwards or backwards performing a focused kick to the target's head, stunning the target for 1 round. You land on the other side of the target.	Roundhouse Kick
Focused Kick	⚔️ Attack Action	👊 Unarmed Melee	2 Power	1 space in front affecting 1 target	instant	Easy Focus	A forward kick dealing 1d6 + Focus + Offensive Power damage.	N/A
Focused Punch	⚔️ Attack Action	👊 Unarmed Melee	2 Power	1 space in front affecting 1 target	instant	Easy Focus	A forward punch dealing 1d4 + Focus + Offensive Power damage.	N/A
Haymaker	⚔️ Attack Action	⚡⚡ Stun Effect	8 Power	1 space in front affecting 1 target	instant	Impossible Athletics	A focused punch straight to the target's head. Increases damage of the attack by 1d4. Stuns the target for 1 round. A critical hit causes the target to also be dazed for the following 1d4 rounds.	Uppercut
Rage Attack (monk)	⚔️ Attack Action	ᯓ➤ Fast Action	8 Power	1 space in front affecting 1 target	instant	Impossible Critical	Deal 1d6 focused punches on the one target. No critical attacks allowed.	Powered Blow
Roundhouse Kick	⚔️ Attack Action	🌪️ Multi-Target	6 Power	a 1x1 space around you affecting all targets in those spaces	instant	Hard Athletics	Preform Focused Kick to all spaces around you.	Split Kick
Split Kick	⚔️ Attack Action	👊 Unarmed Melee	4 Power	1 target 1 space to the left and 1 target 1 space to the right	instant	Normal Athletics	Jump in the air, performing Focused Kick to both the left and right of you.	Focused Kick
Uppercut	⚔️ Attack Action	👊 Unarmed Melee	6 Power	1 space in front affecting 1 target	instant	Hard Athletics	A directed focused punch (1d4 + Focus) that comes up from underneath the target's jaw. Increases damage of the attack by 1d3 and knocks the target down. A critical hit causes stun for 1 round.	Eye Gouger

Action Type: 👣 Move Action
Skill	Action Type	Skill Types	Stat Cost	Range & Area	Duration	Check Roll	Effects	Requirements
Pin Target	👣 Move Action	⚔️ Combat Maneuver	4 Power	1/2 move range affecting 1 target	1d4 rounds	Normal Athletics	Jump onto target knocking target down. Hold target to the ground by being on top of target for the duration. Each round the target may make a hard athletics check to overpower you and escape your pin.	N/A

Martial Weapon Skills

Action Type: ⚔️ Attack Action
Skill	Action Type	Skill Types	Stat Cost	Range & Area	Duration	Check Roll	Effects	Requirements
Diagonal Strike	⚔️ Attack Action	😵‍💫 Dazed Effect	4 Power	weapon's range affecting 1 target	instant	Normal Athletics	Hit the target in a diagonal motion, including the target's head with your nunchucks dazing the target for 1d4 rounds.	Switch Hit
Figure 8	⚔️ Attack Action	🌪️ Multi-Target	10 Power	a 1x1 space around you affecting all targets in those spaces	instant	Impossible Acrobatics	Perform a complex move with your nunchucks hitting all spaces around you once. Each hit has a chance for critical damage. Each hit gets offensive power.	Switch Hit Punch
Left Right Smash	⚔️ Attack Action	🗡️ Melee Attack	6 Power	weapon's range affecting 1 target to the left and 1 target to the right	instant	Challenging Acrobatics	Hit to both the left and right of you with your nunchucks increasing the damage by 1d6 +1.	Diagonal Strike
Switch Hit	⚔️ Attack Action	ᯓ➤ Fast Action	2 Power	weapon's range affecting 1 target	instant	Easy Athletics	Hit target with a basic attack using nunchucks, quickly switching hands, decreasing target's evade by 2 and increasing the damage you deal by 1.	Equip Nunchucks
Switch Hit Punch	⚔️ Attack Action	ᯓ➤ Fast Action	8 Power	1 space in front affecting 1 target	instant	Hard Athletics	Perform an empowered Switch Hit attack, increasing its attack power by 1d4 +1, followed by a punch. The switch hit with your nunchucks gets its own offensive power and the punch is an additional offensive power + 1d4.	Left Right Smash

Action Type: 🔗 Skill Chain Action
Skill	Action Type	Skill Types	Stat Cost	Range & Area	Duration	Check Roll	Effects	Requirements
Extra Attack	🔗 Skill Chain Action	ᯓ➤ Fast Action	8 Power	self	instant	Impossible React	Get a full extra attack that you can use, including using skills.	Powered Blow
Powered Blow	🔗 Skill Chain Action	💪 Empowerment	Power Spent	weapon's range affecting 1 target	instant	Challenging Focus	Increase the damage of your attack by spending Power into your attack. 1 Power = 1 extra damage. You may spend up to your current Offensive Power score in Power for this skill. Should you roll a natural 20 on the Focus check, the total Power investment is doubled and added to the damage instead. You can use this skill with other attack skills.	Power Rush
Powered Hit	🔗 Skill Chain Action	☯️ Chi	1/2 Vitality	1 space in front affecting 1 target	instant	Hard Focus	Pour all of yourself into your hit, increasing your damage by your Level Up/Rest Vitality Gen Dice. You can use this skill with any attack skill.	Vitality Empowerment

Chi Skills

Action Type: 🔮 Support Action
Skill	Action Type	Skill Types	Stat Cost	Range & Area	Duration	Check Roll	Effects	Requirements
Chi Arcobatics	🔮 Support Action	☯️ Chi	2 Soul	self	1d6 rounds	Normal Focus	Increase Acrobatics by your Focus trait score.	Meditation
Chi Defense	🔮 Support Action	☯️ Chi	2 Soul	self	1d6 rounds	Normal Focus	Increase defense trait by 1 and armor defense by focus score. For physical damages and attacks only.	Meditation
Chi Energy	🔮 Support Action	☯️ Chi	6 Soul	self	instant	Hard Focus	Restore Power by your Focus trait score.	Chi Heal
Chi Heal	🔮 Support Action	☯️ Chi	4 Soul	self	instant	Challenging Focus	Heal your Vitality by your Focus trait.	Chi Defense
Chi Runic Defense	🔮 Support Action	☯️ Chi	4 Soul	self	1d6 rounds	Hard Focus	Increase spirit trait by 1 and armor spirit by spirit trait score for defending against magical attacks.	Chi Defense
Critical Chi	🔮 Support Action	☯️ Chi	4 Soul	self	1d6 rounds	Hard Focus	Increase Critical trait by Focus trait and critical damage is increased by focus as well.	Inner Chi
Inner Chi	🔮 Support Action	☯️ Chi	2 Soul	self	1d6 rounds	Normal Focus	Increase all of your damage you deal by your focus score.	Meditation
Meditation	🔮 Support Action	☯️ Chi	N/A	self	1 hour	Easy Focus	Recover Level Up/Rest dice worth of Vitality, Power, and Soul with just one hour of rest. Increase Focus for next hour by +2.	N/A

Action Type: 🔗 Skill Chain Action
Skill	Action Type	Skill Types	Stat Cost	Range & Area	Duration	Check Roll	Effects	Requirements
Chi Drain	🔗 Skill Chain Action	☯️ Chi	6 Soul	self	instant	Hard Focus	Drain focus trait score amount of vitality from attacked target to restore your vitality with. This skill can be used with any attack skill.	Chi Heal

Action Type: 👣 Move Action
Skill	Action Type	Skill Types	Stat Cost	Range & Area	Duration	Check Roll	Effects	Requirements
Ninja Run	👣 Move Action	☯️ Chi	4 Soul	self	instant	Hard Focus	Able to run up a wall or across a body of water for that movement instance.	Inner Chi

Empowerment/Support Skills

Action Type: 🔮 Support Action
Skill	Action Type	Skill Types	Stat Cost	Range & Area	Duration	Check Roll	Effects	Requirements
Empathic Combat	🔮 Support Action	💪 Empowerment	N/A	self	1d6 rounds	Normal Focus	This skill allows for your emotions to fuel your melee damage. If you attack an enemy with a melee attack, including melee attack skills, and are filled with anger, your character's Offensive Power will be increased by 1d6 for that attack. If your character has opposite feelings, such as happiness when melee attacking an enemy and this ability, the attack simply won't do any damage.	Must have the Empathy talent
Inciteful Energy	🔮 Support Action	💪 Empowerment	8 Soul	self	1d6 rounds	Hard Focus -2	Inflict berserk on yourself, causing you to do double damage and increasing your critical trait by 4. However you are unable to use items or spells and cannot retreat or defend.	Chi Energy
Increased Offense	🔮 Support Action	💪 Empowerment	N/A	self	1d6 rounds	Easy Focus	Increase your Offensive Power by 1d6	N/A
Power Rush	🔮 Support Action	💪 Empowerment	4 Soul	self	1d6 rounds	Normal Focus	Increase your Power by 1d6.	Increased Offense
Vitality Empowerment	🔮 Support Action	💪 Empowerment	2 Soul	self	1d6 rounds	Easy Focus	Increase Vitality by 1d10.	N/A

Monk Abilities

These are abilities that are unique to the monk profession. Only monks can obtain and use these abilities:

Ability	Ability Type	Effects	Requirements
Acrobatics Improvement	🛡️ Passive Ability	Increase Acrobatics by 2.	Athletics Improvement
Athletics Improvement	🛡️ Passive Ability	Increase athletics by 2.	Focus Improvement
Bare Defense	🛡️ Passive Ability	Increase defense trait by 1 and provide 1d12 defense when unarmored.	N/A
Dual Fist Mastery	🛠️ Utility Ability	This ability allows you to use both fists and apply offensive power to both fists.	Dual Fist Proficiency
Dual Fist Proficiency	🛠️ Utility Ability	Allows you to punch with both fists. Only your prominent fist receives offensive power.	N/A
Falling Roll	⚡ Activated Ability	When falling from a height that would normally cause fall damage, you can make a Normal Acrobatics check to instead fall into a rolling movement. You will roll one space in the direction that you fell and you will not take any fall damage.	N/A
Focus Improvement	🛡️ Passive Ability	Your Focus is increased by 2.	Power Improvement
Focused Attack Improvement	🛡️ Passive Ability	+2 to Focus Check for Focused attacks permanently.	N/A
Focused Jump	🛡️ Passive Ability	Your jump range is increased by your focus score.	N/A
Focused Monk	🛡️ Passive Ability	Permanently reduces the evade of any target you attack with a physical attack by your focus stat. No longer need to make a focus check to do this.	Meditation
Inner Peace	🛠️ Utility Ability	You gain the positives of berserk but are able to withstand most of the negatives with one exception - while berserked you cannot defend or evade. You cannot be inflicted with depression or loss of self.	Invoked Spirit ability and Inciteful Energy skill
Invoked Spirit	🛠️ Utility Ability	Able to add morality points to damage if target is of an opposing morality. If you are light and target is dark, you can add your light points to your attack. If you are dark and your target is light you can add dark points to your attack. If you are order and your target is chaos, you can add order points to your attack. If you are chaos and your target is order you can add chaos points to your attack. This is decided by if you have more of one morality points than another. If you have more order than chaos, then you are order for example. If you are Light Chaos (chaotic good), and your target is Order Dark (lawful evil) then you can add both light and chaos points to your attack, for example.	N/A
Martial Arts Mastery	🛡️ Passive Ability	Unarmed combat causes wounds. Able to use bashing skills and proficiency with nunchucks, punches, and kicks. Increase damage by +2.	Martial Arts Proficiency
Martial Arts Proficiency	🛡️ Passive Ability	Apply evade penalty of 1 to target and increase damage by 1d4 when attacking unarmed or with nunchucks.	N/A
Martial Conditioning	🛠️ Utility Ability	Applies Defense Trait + Endure Trait to hands and arms as block value, allowing you to block with hands and arms. Would have to use Block or Parry for this to work.	Bare Defense
Momentum Attacks	🛠️ Utility Ability	Able to attack targets as you move past them during your movement action.	Ninja Speed
Monk Endurance	🛡️ Passive Ability	Your Power is increased by your Stamina + 1d4.	Power Augmentation
Monk Training	🛡️ Passive Ability	Monk skills cost 1/2 as much stat points (Soul or Power) to use.	N/A
Mortal Hit	🛠️ Utility Ability	Add a 1d20 roll to all of your unarmed combat or combat with nunchucks. Rolling a 20 - instant death to target.	Sleeper Hit
Ninja Evasion	🛠️ Utility Ability	This ability makes the monk as evasive as a ninja and therefore hard to hit. It does this by increasing the monk's Evade by their React trait score.	Martial Conditioning
Ninja Reflexes	🛠️ Utility Ability	Increase React with Focus whenever reacting to an attack or checking for attack of opportunity.	N/A
Ninja Speed	🛠️ Utility Ability	Increase Initiative with Focus for initiative checks.	Ninja Reflexes
Power Augmentation	⚡ Activated Ability	You can spend power into any trait that you want to increase for the next 1d4 rounds, at the cost of your current round. You have to sacrifice your support action to do so, and you do not gain the benefit until the next round. You gain 1 point for every 2 Power, and that power is spent once used.	Monk Training
Power Improvement	🛡️ Passive Ability	Your Power is increased by 1d6.	N/A
Sleeper Hit	⚡ Activated Ability	Critical hit knocks target out for 1d4 rounds.	Martial Arts Mastery

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