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Fighters

Fighters are masters of combat techniques, using thought out tactics and carefully placed strikes to defeat their foes.

Fighters are found in every race across the world.


Fighters

hit dice: 1d10
hit points at 1st level: 10 + your Constitution modifier
hit points at higher levels: 1d10 (or 6) + your Constitution modifier per barbarian level after 1st
armor proficiencies: Shields and one armour weight of your choice
weapon proficiencies: Choose one group: dagger, shortsword, sickle, whip; javelin, spear, pike, halberd; flail, morningstar, mace, warhammer; dagger, shortbow, longbow, whip; light hammer, warhammer, handaxe, greataxe; lance, shortsword, greatsword, longsword; scimitar, whip, sickle, glaive
tools:
saving throws: Strength, Constitution
skills: Intimidation, Survival
starting equipment:
spellcasting:

None.

class features:

Level 1

Fighting Style

You adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options.

 
Archery

You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls you make with ranged weapons.

 
Defence

While you are wearing armour, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.

 
Duelling

When you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no other weapons, you gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls with that weapon.

 
Great Weapon Fighting

When you roll a 1 or 2 on a damage die for an attack you make with a melee weapon that you are wielding with two hands, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll, even if the new roll is a 1 or a 2. The weapon must have the two-handed or versatile property for you to gain this benefit.

 
Protection

When a creature you can see attacks a target other than you that is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the attack roll. You must be wielding a shield.

 
Two-Weapon Fighting

When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second attack.

 

Second Wind

You have a limited well of stamina that you can draw on to protect yourself from harm. On your turn, you can use a bonus action to regain hit points equal to 1d10 + your fighter level.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.

 

Level 2

Action Surge

You can push yourself beyond your normal limits for a moment. On your turn, you can take one additional action on top of your regular action and a possible bonus action. Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.

 

Level 3

Superiority Dice

You have four superiority dice, which are d8s. A superiority die is expended when you use it. You regain all of your expended superiority dice when you finish a short or long rest.

You gain another superiority die at 7th level and one more at 15th level.

 

Manoeuvres

You learn three manoeuvres of your choice. You can only use one manoeuvre per attack.

 
Commander’s Strike

When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can forgo one of your attacks and use a bonus action to direct one of your companions to strike. When you do so, choose a friendly creature who can see or hear you and expend one superiority die. That creature can immediately use its reaction to make one weapon attack, adding the superiority die to the attack’s damage roll.

 
Disarming Attack

When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend one superiority die to attempt to disarm the target, forcing it to drop one item of your choice that it’s holding. You add the superiority die to the attack’s damage roll, and the target must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, it drops the object you choose. The object lands at its feet.

 
Distracting Strike

When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend one superiority die to distract the creature, giving your allies an opening. You add the superiority die to the attack’s damage roll. The next attack roll against the target by an attacker other than you has advantage if the attack is made before the start of your next turn.

 
Evasive Footwork

When you move, you can expend one superiority die, rolling the die and adding the number rolled to your AC until you stop moving.

 
Feinting Attack

You can expend one superiority die and use a bonus action on your turn to feint, choosing one creature within 5 feet of you as your target. You have advantage on your next attack roll against that creature. If that attack hits, add the superiority die to the attack’s damage roll.

 
Goading Attack

When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend one superiority die to attempt to goad the target into attacking you. You add the superiority die to the attack’s damage roll, and the target must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the target has disadvantage on all attack rolls against targets other than you until the end of your next turn.

 
Lunging Attack

When you make a melee weapon attack on your turn, you can expend one superiority die to increase your reach for that attack by 5 feet. If you hit, you add the superiority die to the attack’s damage roll.

 
Manoeuvring Attack

When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend one superiority die to manoeuvre one of your comrades into a more advantageous position. You add the superiority die to the attack’s damage roll, and you choose a friendly creature who can see or hear you. That creature can use its reaction to move up to half its speed without provoking opportunity attacks from the target of your attack.

 
Menacing Attack

When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend one superiority die to attempt to frighten the target. You add the superiority die to the attack’s damage roll, and the target must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, it is frightened of you until the end of your next turn.

 
Parry

When another creature damages you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction and expend one superiority die to reduce the damage by the number you roll on your superiority die + your Dexterity modifier.

 
Precision Attack

When you make a weapon attack roll against a creature, you can expend one superiority die to add it to the roll. You can use this manoeuvre before or after making the attack roll, but before any effects of the attack are applied.

 
Pushing Attack

When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend one superiority die to attempt to drive the target back. You add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll, and if the target is Large or smaller, it must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, you push the target up to 15 feet away from you.

 
Rally

On your turn, you can use a bonus action and expend one superiority die to bolster the resolve of one of your companions. When you do so, choose a friendly creature who can see or hear you. That creature gains temporary hit points equal to the superiority die roll + your Charisma modifier.

 
Riposte

When a creature misses you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction and expend one superiority die to make a melee weapon attack against the creature. If you hit, you add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll.

 
Sweeping Attack

When you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can expend one superiority die to attempt to damage another creature with the same attack. Choose another creature within 5 feet of the original target and within your reach. If the original attack roll would hit the second creature, it takes damage equal to the number you roll on your superiority die. The damage is of the same type dealt by the original attack.

 
Trip Attack

When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend one superiority die to attempt to knock the target down. You add the superiority die to the attack’s damage roll, and if the target is Large or smaller, it must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, you knock the target prone.

 
Guidance

Whenever you or an allied creature you can see within 30 feet of you misses a weapon attack, as a reaction you may call upon them, allowing to immediately make another attack against the creature adding your Charisma modifier to the damage roll. You can use this feature equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of once).

 

Level 4

Ability Score Improvement

You can increase on ability score of your choice by 2 or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. You can't increase an ability score above 20 using this feature. You can choose instead to select a feat for your character. You gain this feature again when you reach 6th, 8th, 12th, 14th, 16th and 19th level.

 

Level 5

Extra Attack

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

The number of attacks increases to three when you reach 11th level in this class and to four when you reach 20th level in this class.

 

Level 9

Indomitable

You can reroll a saving throw that you fail. If you do so, you must use the new roll, and you can't use this feature again until you finish a long rest.

You can use this feature twice between long rests starting at 13th level and three times between long rests starting at 17th level.

subclass options:

Level 3

You have 1 class point.

You can spend class points on any features that you have unlocked and have not already selected. You must spend class points when you gain them, and cannot save them for future levels.

 

Optional Abilities

Danger Sense

You gain an uncanny sense of when things nearby aren’t as they should be, giving you an edge when you dodge away from danger.

You have advantage on Dexterity saving throws against effects that you can see, such as traps and spells. To gain this benefit, you can’t be blinded, deafened, or incapacitated.

 

Combat Inspiration

You learn to inspire others in battle. A creature that has a Superiority die from you can roll that die and add the number rolled to a weapon damage roll it just made. Alternatively, when an attack roll is made against the creature, it can use its reaction to roll the Superiority die and add the number rolled to its AC against that attack, after seeing the roll but before knowing whether it hits or misses.

 

Level 10

You gain 1 class point.

 

Optional Abilities

Stillness of Mind

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

 

Know Your Enemy

If you spend at least 1 minute observing or interacting with another creature outside combat, you can learn certain information about its capabilities compared to your own. The DM tells you if the creature is your equal, superior, or inferior in regard to two of the following characteristics of your choice:

 
  • Strength score
  • Dexterity score
  • Constitution score
  • Armour Class
  • Current hit points
  • Total class levels (if any)
  • Fighter class levels (if any)
 

Additional Fighting Style

You can choose a second option from the Fighting Style class feature.  

Level 17

You gain 1 class point.

 

Optional Abilities

Volley

You can use your action to make a ranged attack against any number of creatures within 10 feet of a point you can see within your weapon’s range. You must have ammunition for each target, as normal, and you make a separate attack roll for each target.

 

Whirlwind Attack

You can use your action to make a melee attack against any number of creatures within 5 feet of you, with a separate attack roll for each target.

 

Superior Critical

Your weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 18-20.

 

Relentless

When you roll initiative and have no superiority dice remaining, you regain 1 superiority die.

 

Level 18

You gain 1 class point.

 

Optional Abilities

Fighter's Senses

You gain preternatural senses that help you fight creatures you can’t see. When you attack a creature you can’t see, your inability to see it doesn’t impose disadvantage on your attack rolls against it.

You are also aware of the location of any invisible creature within 30 feet of you, provided that the creature isn’t hidden from you and you aren’t blinded or deafened.

 

Fighter Table

LevelClass PointsAbilitiesOptional Abilities
10Fighting Style, Second Wind---
20Action Surge---
31Superiority Dice, ManoeuvresDanger Sense, Combat Inspiration
41Ability Score Improvement---
51Extra Attack---
61Ability Score Improvement---
71Superiority Die Improvement---
81Ability Score Improvement---
91Indomitable---
102---Stillness of Mind, Know Your Enemy, Additional Fighting Style
112Extra Attack Improvement---
122Ability Score Improvement---
132Superiority Die Improvement, Indomitable Improvement---
142Ability Score Improvement---
152------
162Ability Score Improvement---
173Indomitable ImprovementVolley, Whirlwind Attack, Superior Critical, Relentless
184---Fighter's Senses
194Ability Score Improvement---
204Extra Attack Improvement---

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