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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 7001777" data-attributes="member: 6701872">I'm not a designer, but I am a person that sees no issue with those two features as written, so maybe I can provide some insight?1. Shadow Step. It's not as "at will" as you've phrased it because it requires you to be in dim light or darkness, and to be able to see an unoccupied area you actually want to teleport to that is also in dim light or darkness. Bright light shuts it down, and isn't all that hard to come by, plus it takes your bonus action so you are typically losing out on extra damage from an attack, or some other noteworthy benefit, to get advantage on a single attack assuming the power is fully utilized - which is typically not going to be a significant change in how fast you take down an opponent.2. Stunning Strike. It isn't as good as you make it out to be, since it requires both a successful attack roll and a failed saving throw, doesn't apply as deadly of condition, and also has a specific finite duration rather than being potentially multiple rounds of lost actions from a single resource expenditure.To put the more important trait there, the needing of both a successful attack roll and a failed save to work, into perspective; let's imagine that the monk has a 70% chance to hit the target's AC, and the target has a 70% chance to fail the save. That means there is actually a 49% chance that the target is stunned while the chance for a successful hold monster against the same target is typically going to be much higher.And even your statement that it can be cast up to 4 times per round isn't completely accurate because it accompanies your other statement that it can be cast monk level times per short rest - you can't actually make 4 attacks in a round without spending ki, so if you do one of these things you can't do the other.</blockquote>

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