Homebrew Monk

Way of the Untraveled Path

This Monastic Tradition incentivizes adventuring and independence, for Monks who follow this tradition know that it is the only way to achieve enlightenment. The path to perfection is found through an innate understanding of yourself that can only be gained by understanding how you interact with the world and refining those interactions. Without self reflection and self awareness any monk who takes this path is doomed to failure.

The Way of the Untraveled Path embraces concepts of Dunamancy. For every choice made there is a you that chose the other option. Monks of this Monastic Tradition seek to connect with these alternate selves who took different paths and to learn from their experiences. Through connection with a multitude of selves and fully understanding them collective wisdom is born and enlightenment is achieved.

__3rd level:__

You have learned to contact and become in touch with your most recent alternate selves via self reflection. You can’t see them or feel them, but you become keenly aware of what could have been and the lessons that were learned by the selves that could have been.
Your alternate selves guide your body and your actions subtly, hoping you can accomplish what they have failed and learn from their mistakes. You can spend 2 Ki points to ignore disadvantage on a single attack roll, ability check, or saving throw.

__6th level:__

Your understanding of what makes yourself unique and what factors influence you has expanded. Through a thorough understanding of the major events in your life and what could have been you have learned to connect and gain the wisdom and aid of distantly connected versions of yourself.
Knowledge Self Taught: Through communication with possible versions of yourself you have learned the skills that make them unique. Choose 2 skills, picking from a list consisting of: Arcana, History, Nature, Religion, Insight, Medicine, Performance, and Persuasion.
Vigilance of the Self:  Through strengthening your connection with all the versions of yourself that occupy a single point in space at a single moment of time you have learned that every version of yourself is looking out for the well-being of every version. They will do their best to warn you and ready you when the time comes. Upon rolling Initiative you can spend a Ki Point to roll it again and take the better of the two Initiatives rolled.

__11th: __
Coexistence of Self: You have come to accept the flaws that make you who you are and accept the flaws of the alternate versions of yourself. Through this understanding you have found that as a united collective sharing wisdom and strength that you can move past your flaws to improve and attain a better state of equilibrium. With self acceptance has come self empowerment. You can manipulate the energies inside of yourself to allow an alternate version of yourself to briefly exist alongside you in a physical sense.
As an action you can spend 6 Ki Points to create a duplicate of yourself. This duplicate appears in an unoccupied space within 5 feet of you. The duplicate is physically and mentally identical to you in every way, having the exact same stats and capabilities as you. This duplicate is fully cognizant that it is a duplicate and that it is completely under your control, though it is free to react and act on that knowledge however it likes. A duplicate of a person with control issues or someone with intense self loathing might find that their duplicate will try to rebel and turn against them. However, if you are truly in unity with yourself and every aspect of yourself then the duplicate will eagerly support you.
The summoned duplicate is completely under your control, physically speaking. You can dictate what actions it takes, how and where it moves, its bonus actions, its reactions, and if it uses Ki Points or not. The duplicate vanishes when you end your turn.
The duplicate can use Ki Points or Spells, if you have them. It uses your own Spell Slots or Ki Points to do so.

__17: __
Harmony of the Collective: You have reached the peak of your understanding of yourself and what you could have been. Every version of yourself is understood by you and understands you. Knowledge is shared freely within this collective, for only through the efforts of the group to improve can enlightenment be achieved. This collective supports every member and will appear in times of need to ensure knowledge is not lost. When you are attacked by an enemy within your line of sight you can use make an Unarmed Strike against them as a Reaction, regardless of the range between you and the attacker. An identical copy of yourself surges into existence to deliver your Unarmed Strike. This Unarmed Strike does not trigger any Extra Attacks and Flurry of Blows cannot be used immediately after the strike is made. The version of yourself that made the attack vanishes immediately after making it.