Tovio Sato
Tovio Sato
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AC 16 · HP 66 · 50 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- AcrobaticsDEX
- Animal HandlingWIS
- ArcanaINT
- AthleticsSTR
- DeceptionSTR
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- IntimidationCHA
- InvestigationINT
- MedicineWIS
- NatureINT
- PerceptionWIS
- PerformanceCHA
- PersuasionCHA
- ReligionINT
- Sleight of HandDEX
- StealthDEX
- SurvivalWIS
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
23 featuresAction
- Attack
When When you take the Attack action.
Make two attacks with Unarmed Strikes or Monk weapons.
- Extra AttackLevel 5
You can make two attacks instead of one when you take the Attack action on your turn.
Bonus action
- Flurry of Blows
When After taking the Attack action.
Make two Unarmed Strikes after taking the Attack action, spending 1 Focus Point.
- Step of the Wind
When On your turn.
Disengage or Dash, and double your jump distance, spending 1 Focus Point if desired.
- Agile Movement
When On your turn.
Disengage, Dash, or both without spending a Focus Point.
- Martial ArtsLevel 1
While not wearing armor or wielding a Shield, your base AC equals 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Wisdom modifier. You can use Dexterity instead of Strength for Unarmed Strikes and Monk weapons. Your Martial Arts die is 1d8, and you can make one Unarmed Strike as a Bonus Action after taking the Attack action with an Unarmed Strike or Monk weapon.
Reaction
- Deflect AttacksLevel 3
When When hit by a melee attack.
Reduce damage from a melee attack and possibly redirect it.
- Slow FallLevel 4
When When you take falling damage.
Reduce falling damage by up to 35.
Always on
- Stunning StrikeLevel 5
When When you hit with a Monk weapon or Unarmed Strike.
Spend 1 Focus Point to attempt to Stun a creature hit by a Monk weapon or Unarmed Strike.
- Unarmored MovementLevel 2
While not wearing armor or wielding a Shield, your speed increases by 15 feet. This benefit also applies to your Climb and Swim speeds. You can move along vertical surfaces and across liquids during your turn without falling during the movement.
- Focus PointsLevel 2
You gain Focus Points equal to your Monk level. You regain all expended Focus Points when you finish a Short or Long Rest. You can use Focus Points for Focus features such as Flurry of Blows, Patient Defense, and Step of the Wind.
- Warrior of the Open HandLevel 3
You gain the Warrior of the Open Hand features, using physical discipline and precise strikes to control the battlefield.
- Empowered StrikesLevel 6
Your Unarmed Strikes and Monk weapon attacks can deal Force damage or their normal damage type. Whenever you deal damage with one of these attacks, you can change the damage type to Force.
- Open Hand TechniqueLevel 3
When you make an attack roll with an Unarmed Strike as part of the Attack action on your turn, you can impose one of three effects on a hit by spending 1 Focus Point: addle the target's ability checks, push it up to 15 feet, or prevent it from taking reactions.
- EvasionLevel 7
When you are subjected to an effect that allows a Dexterity saving throw to take half damage, you take no damage on a successful save and half damage on a failed save.
- Magic Initiate (Wizard)Level 1
You have learned the basics of wizardly magic through study. You know the cantrips Mage Hand and Minor Illusion, and you can cast the 1st-level spell Find Familiar once per Long Rest without a spell slot. Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for these spells.
- TraitElfDarkvision, you can see in dim light within 60 feet as if it were bright light and in darkness as if it were dim light.
- Elven Lineage, Wood ElfElfYour Speed is 35 feet, you know the Druidcraft cantrip, and you can cast Longstrider once per Long Rest without a spell slot. You can also cast it using spell slots you have.
- TraitElfFey Ancestry, you have Advantage on saving throws to avoid or end the Charmed condition.
- TraitElfKeen Senses, you have proficiency in the Perception skill.
- TraitElfTrance, you do not need to sleep and can finish a Long Rest in 4 hours by meditating.
- TraitElfElves do not need to eat, drink, or breathe.
- ResearcherSage
If you do not know or cannot find information, you often know where and from whom it can be obtained. You can usually locate a library, archive, scholar, or knowledgeable person, though the information may require time, payment, or a favor.
Spells
5 spellsSpellcasting. Tovio Sato casts with Intelligence ( to hit with spell attacks).
Cantrips (at will): , ,
1st level: ,
Gear
9 itemsWeapons
- SpearA simple wooden spear used for practice, travel, and defense.
- 5×DaggerBalanced light blades kept in a wrapped leather bundle.
Tools
- Calligrapher's SuppliesA small set of calligrapher's supplies used for copying and annotating texts.
Gear
- Explorer's PackA sturdy pack containing blankets, flint, rations, rope, and other travel necessities.
- 3×BooksThree surviving books rescued from the monastery archive.
- Ink and PenA bottle of black ink and a durable ink pen.
- 8×ParchmentEight sheets of clean parchment.
- RobeA plain scholar's robe, patched and carefully mended.
Purse
- 19×Gold PiecesUnspent coins from his years as a copyist and traveler.
Appearance
A lean, weathered wood elf with a compact, durable build, olive-brown skin, and straight dark hair tied low at the nape. His green eyes are watchful and tired, with a small scar crossing his left eyebrow. He wears a plain gray-brown monk's robe reinforced at the knees and shoulders, soft leather sandals, and a faded blue cord around one wrist. His hands are callused from staff work, climbing, and years of copying manuscripts.
Mannerisms
He rubs the blue cord around his wrist whenever thinking, counts doorways and windows upon entering a room, and speaks in short, careful sentences. When irritated, he silently corrects grammar in written notices before addressing the person who posted them.
Personality
Quietly attentive and practical, Tovio notices who has not eaten, which hinge is loose, and what important fact everyone else has overlooked. He is patient with frightened people and children, but becomes blunt when confronted with cruelty disguised as tradition or scholarship. He prefers useful work to ceremony and trusts those who can admit they were wrong.
Ideals
Knowledge is a lantern, not a trophy. What I learn must be used to make someone's path safer.
Bonds
The three surviving books from the burned monastery are in my keeping, and I will recover the rest of its archive or die trying.
Flaws
I cannot leave a question unanswered, even when pursuing the answer puts innocent people at risk. I also judge people too quickly when they dismiss books, records, or old warnings as useless.
Quirks
Background
Tovio Sato was born among a woodland elf community that kept its history in spoken poems, carved walking sticks, and bundles of birch-bark records. He was never the quickest hunter or the most patient singer, but he had an unusual memory for small details. An old monastery librarian noticed that he could reproduce a page after reading it once and took him in as a copyist. There, Tovio learned that knowledge was not valuable merely because it was old. It mattered when it helped someone survive, find a missing person, settle a dispute, or avoid repeating a tragedy. When raiders burned the monastery archive, Tovio carried three surviving books into the forest and followed the monks who pursued the thieves. He expected to serve as a guide and translator, but instead became a student of their disciplined fighting style. The monks taught him to treat movement as a form of reading, every opponent revealing intention through balance, breath, and hesitation. Years later, Tovio travels as a wandering researcher and quiet protector, gathering lost accounts while intervening wherever the strong use ignorance as a weapon. He still keeps the three rescued books wrapped in oilskin, adding notes in the margins whenever he learns something worth preserving.
“He was never the quickest hunter or the most patient singer, but he had an unusual memory for small details.”
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Species
Elf
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