User:Leziad/Radiant Anima Monk (3.5e Alternate Class Feature)

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Radiant Anima Monk

The Radiant Anima Monk is a master of both her ki and positive energy, to the point of synthesis.

Class: Monk

Prerequisites: Must be a living creature and healed by positive energy.

Level: 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 15th, 16th, 19th, 20th

Replaces: AC Bonus, Base Attack Bonus, 1st Level Bonus Feat, Slow Fall, Purity of Body, Diamond Body, Quivering Palm, Perfect Self

Benefit: A Radiant Anima Monk may use her Constitution or Charisma score instead of her Wisdom score for all her class features, feats and prerequisites related to her monk class or monk abilities. Additionally she gain access to the following class features:


Base Attack Bonus: A Radiant Anima Monk has Good Base Attack bonus (as a Fighter).

Positive Energy Ki: If a Radiant Anima Monk gain any ability to project her ki, such as Ki Blast or Hadoken. The damage dealt is considered positive energy damage whenever doing would be beneficial (except it never heal). You may also never be healed by negative energy and cannot be raised as an undead.

Radiant Anima: The ability to manipulate positive energy in their body is extremely effective, allowing the Radiant Anima Monk to perform several feats impossible to monks. The Radiant Anima Monk receive Rapid Healing equal to 5x her class level. She is also immune to death by positive energy. This Rapid Healing may even take her above her maximum hit points, granting temporary up to a maximum of 10 hit points per class level.

At 5th level the Radiant Anima Monk also gain Fast Healing equal to half her class level, this fast healing do not overheal her.

AC Bonus: The Radiant Anima Monk add her Wisdom or Charisma to her AC while wearing light or no armor. This is otherwise identical to the Monk class feature.

Masterwork Body: A 1st level Anima Wave Monk gain Masterwork Body as a bonus feat.

Positive Strike (Su): A 2nd level Radiant Anima Monk can project positive energy in her blow, she deal an additional 1d6 positive energy damage on all her unarmed strike and special monk weapon. If she miss the subject AC but still hit their touch AC she do not deal her unarmed strike damage but still does the positive energy damage. Creatures healed by positive energy are immune to this extra damage, they are not healed by it.

The damage inflicted by Positive Strike increase by 1d6 at 4th, 6th and each even level thereafter. At 14th level she gain the ability to deal half damage to creature healed by positive energy, she may suppress or resume this ability as a free action.

Body Equilibrium (Su): At 4th level, the Radiant Anima Monk gain the ability to adjust the energy in her body allowing her to main perfect balance. She can adjust her weight as a free action from essentially weightless to four times her normal weight. This allow her to stand on any surface such as water, branches and even cloud with a simple DC 20 Balance check. Additionally as a swift action the Radiant Anima Monk may ascend a number of feet equal to what her slow fall would be, so a 4th level monk could ascend 20 feet as a swift action. She can maintain her altitude as a free action, however she will gently float down if she move more than 5 feet horizontally.

Radiant Ki Strike (Su): A 4th level Radiant Anima Monk's ki is supercharged by positive energy. All of her attacks (not just unarmed strike) count as magic for the purpose of bypassing damage reduction and possess the Ghost Touch enhancement for free. Her unarmed strike and special monk weapons ignore an amount of DR equal to half her class level (except DR/-).

At 10th level her Unarmed Strike and Special Monk weapons gain Disruption for free. At 16th it gain Brilliant Energy Variant for free as well, except it always has full effect on creatures harmed by positive energy and may be toggled on or off as a free action.

Perfect Body Control (Ex): A 5th level Radiant Anima Monk is immune to all poisons and disease. She is also so imbued with positive energy that she is immune to any 'touch' ability of undead, such as Ghoul's Touch or a Lich's Paralyzing touch. This immunity also apply to the touch granted by undead grafts. She also again Negative Energy resistance equal to twice her class level.

At 11th level she become completely immune to negative energy, energy drain, level drain.

Radiant Wholeness of Body (Su): A 6th level Radiant Anima Monk gain a much much more improved version of wholeness of body. She can heal a number of hit points equal to her Radiant Monk level x10 as a free action, she can spread her healing among multiple uses. She may also deliver healing as part of as touch on a willing creature. As a standard action she may also diffuse the healing a 60 feet radius burst (or smaller if she desire) around herself, healing or damaging (if harmed by positive energy) all creatures in the radius, this consume twice as much healing as normal however.

Unlike the normal Monk, the Radiant Anima Monk slowly recharge her pool of healing. Instead of healing herself, she may have the Rapid Healing granted by Radiant Anima refill the pool with the same amount of healing she would have received.

Anima Sight (Su): A 7th level Radiant Anima Monk gain Lifesight out of 30 ft, at 14th range increase to 60 ft and to 120 ft at 19th.

Timeless Body (Su): As the Monk class feature, except she receive it at 12th instead of 17th.

Death by Awesome (Su): Once per day the 15th level Radiant Anima Monk can deliver a unarmed strike supercharged with positive energy as a standard action, forcing a fortitude save (DC 10 +1/2 HD + Constitution modifier) or cause the struck creature to explode and instantly die. If an undead fail it save against this effect it crumble to ash if killed by this ability, ignoring any immortality ability it may have. This ability count as Quivering Palm.

Radiant Harmony (Ex): At 17th level the Radiant Anima Monk is in perfect harmony with the plane of positive energy. All of her monk ability which were Supernatural ability now become Extraordinary abilities.

Harmonious Living Ki (Ex): The 20th level Radiant Anima Monk has achieved perfect control of the positive energy in her body, she become immune to all necromancy effect, gain DR 10/- and become an Outsider. She is still resurrected like a creature of her previous type. Additionally she gain the ability to project her ki in an image at a distance as per project image at will.