You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

You can use your action to end one effect on yourself that is causing you to be charmed or frightened.

Immediately after taking the Attack action, spend 1 ki point to make two unarmed strikes as a bonus action.

Spend 1 ki point to take the Dodge action as a bonus action.

Spend 1 ki point to take the Disengage or Dash action as a bonus action, and your jump distance is doubled for the turn.

You can use Dexterity instead of Strength for the attack and damage rolls of your Unarmed Strikes and Monk weapons. Your Unarmed Strike or Monk weapon damage die becomes a d4, and when you take the Attack action with an Unarmed Strike or Monk weapon, you can make one unarmed strike as a bonus action.

Use your reaction when hit by a ranged weapon attack to reduce the damage by 1d10 plus Dexterity modifier plus monk level.

When you fall, you can use your reaction to reduce falling damage by an amount equal to five times your monk level.

When you hit a creature with a Monk weapon or Unarmed Strike, expend 1 ki point to force a Constitution save or stun the target until the end of your next turn.

You have a d8 Hit Die.

You gain proficiency with Strength and Dexterity saving throws.

You gain proficiency in two skills from Acrobatics, Athletics, History, Insight, Religion, and Stealth.

You gain proficiency with simple weapons and shortswords.

You gain proficiency with one type of artisan's tools or one musical instrument.

While you are wearing no armor and not wielding a shield, your AC equals 10 plus your Dexterity modifier plus your Wisdom modifier.

You have a number of ki points equal to your monk level, which you can spend to fuel your ki features. You regain all expended ki when you finish a short or long rest after meditating for at least 30 minutes.

Your speed increases by 10 feet while you are not wearing armor or wielding a shield.

You gain a monastic tradition, in this build chosen as Way of the Open Hand.

You can move through enemies and can disrupt foes with precise open-hand technique, flavored here as silent martial control and pressure-point strikes.

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, you can increase one ability score by 2 or two ability scores by 1. In this build the 8th-level ASI has already been applied to produce the listed final ability scores.

Your unarmed strikes count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Your speed bonus from Unarmored Movement increases to 15 feet.

When you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you instead take no damage on a success and only half damage on a failure.

Criminal contacts and underworld instincts. Blade knows how to find illicit work, recognize coded messages, and move through the hidden economy of thieves, smugglers, and cutpurses, even if the 2024 background rules focus the rules package on feat, skills, tools, and equipment rather than a separate feature.