Monks are probably the most supernatural of the martial classes and it makes sense for them to have abilities that mimic spells. However, giving spellcasting to monks has resulted in the strangeness that is the Way of the Four Elements monk. Homebrew (and the popular media franchises that inspired it) has given us two possible fixes to make spellcasting monks better, that take essentially opposite stances on the issue. Between audio issues and a incredible lack of close reading skill, can Andrew and Pat get to the bottom of monk madness and come out with some good homebrew?
(Seriously, this episode was cursed, more that 20% of it got stripped in editing and it is kinda a miracle it made it out alive, have fun listening!).
The Way of the Elemental Bender by u/McKirby98 can be found here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnearthedArcana/comments/n7ljl2/way_of_the_element_bender_final_version_a_mostly/
The Way of the Weave monk by u/TheWinkingWizard can be found here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UnearthedArcana/comments/j7d7pl/way_of_the_weave_jediinspired_thirdcaster/
Andrew's fix for Forseen Fighting (beta version):
"Your prescient abilities come to your aid to counter your foes in combat. Once per round when targeted by an attack you may choose to gain advantage on the next attack you make against the attacking creature before the end of your next turn."
Basically this encourages dueling with foes who want to get at you, which is both true to the Jedi way and is a bit different from the punch and run monks normally do. I would make it a reaction, but this subclass already gets two reactions (deflect missiles and flowing defense) and I don't want to have them miss out on those abilities.
Intro and outro music is Lord of the Land by Kevin MacLeod from Incompetech.
The image in the title card is by Designdrunkard on Pexels.
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Pat on reddit: u/ravenmaw
Andrew on reddit: u/aabrock