When you choose this monastic tradition at 3rd level, you learn how to better attune to the natural world. You gain proficiency in the Nature and Survival skills. You also learn the dancing lights and druidcraft cantrips. Wisdom is your spellcasting modifier for these spells.

Fist of the Forest

Also starting at 3rd level, you learn how to channel your ki to take on aspects of beasts that dwell in the forest. You can use your bonus action to spend 1 ki point to gain benefits based on the form you choose, which are detailed at the end of this monastic tradition’s features below.

While you have the benefits of an animal form, you can choose to make your unarmed strikes deal bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage, and you can use your bonus action on subsequent turns to end the benefits of that form and gain the benefits of a different animal form. You can only have the benefits of one animal form at once, and they last for 1 minute unless noted otherwise.

You learn three animal forms of of your choice. You learn an additional animal form of your choice at 6th level, 11th level, and 17th level. Each time you gain a level in this class, you can replace one of the animal forms you know with a different animal form that you don’t know.