Brainstorming a class
This was an idea I had for a long time. A tabletop class built around the idea of Luck or as I decided to call it, Way of Fortune. A working title for a long time was Way of Good Fortune but I decided on just fortune because much like good luck, sometimes there is also some bad luck as well. What if there was a class that can just make things work in their favor when they wanted? A party member needed a little extra boost to a skill check or a saving throw just to pull through? Or maybe a tough enemy would be a little less tougher if it was slowed down, dropped its weapon or through the touch of some bad luck, just couldn’t focus to hit what was in front of them. The Way of Fortune Monk was here to do all of that and then some with Ki, the dice and of course a little luck.
A roll of the dice?
My first draft of a Way of Fortune Monk leaned a bit too heavy into a jack of all trades class. This monk used the ki point pools as a help action, support class, buff list that had my monk either adding beneficial abilities and imposing disadvantage with a simple touch, or a strike depending on the target. Good ideas but at the end of the day seemed a bit boring and borrowed too much from other classes. I wanted this class to be weird and random, but helpful and fun. A class inspired by the Feat Lucky and the wild table would live and breathe on the dice. Every ability, feat and strike has an extra random dice roll. Something good or bad will happen, but what happens depends on how lucky you are.
Why Monk?
Monk’s Ki is a mystical kind of up in the air magic but not really magic pool of energy that is random and vague enough to be altered to fit other systems of magic or energy in a world. Plus the system for regeneration and use of Ki is well established and suits my creative needs just nicely. Sorcerer was a close second but did inspire the class background.
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