Action Surge

Starting at 2nd level, 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. Starting at 17th level, you can use it twice before a rest, but only once on the same turn.

Martial Archetype

At 3rd level, you choose an archetype that you strive to emulate in your combat styles and techniques. Choose Champion, War Master, Duellist, Bloodreaver, Glade Warrior or Eldritch Knight, all detailed at the end of the class description. The archetype you choose grants you features at 3rd level and again at 7th, 10th, 15th, and 18th level.

Superiority

Also at 3rd level, when you use a manoeuvre, you can choose to trigger its superiority option which is described in the manoeuvre. You can use this feature twice, and you regain expended uses after a short or long rest.

You gain one additional use of your Superiority at 6th and 14th level.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level and again at 6th, 8th, 12th, 14th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

Extra Attack

Beginning at 5th level, 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.

Indomitable

Beginning at 9th level, 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.

Martial Archetypes

Different fighters choose different approaches to perfecting their fighting prowess. The martial archetype you choose to emulate reflects your approach.

Champion

The archetypal Champion focuses on the development of raw physical power honed to deadly perfection. Those who model themselves on this archetype combine rigorous training with physical excellence to deal devastating blows.

Improved Critical

Beginning when you choose this archetype at 3rd level, your weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll of a 19 or 20.

Brute Advantage

Also starting at 3rd level, your overwhelming presence and the unrefined nature of your maneuvers allows you to impose against your targets. You can have a creature who has been affected by one of your maneuvers take damage equal to your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice) as well.

Remarkable Athlete

Starting at 7th level, you can add half your proficiency bonus (round up) to any Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution check you make. In addition, when you make a running long jump, the distance you can cover increases by a number of feet equal to your Strength modifier.

Additional Fighting Style

At 10th level, you can choose a second option from the Fighting Style class feature.

Superior Critical

Starting at 15th level, your weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 18-20.

Survivor

At 18th level, you attain the pinnacle of resilience in battle. At the start of each of your turns, you regain hit points equal to 5 + your Constitution modifier if you have less than half of your maximum hit points left. You don’t gain this benefit if you have 0 hit points.

War Master

Those who emulate the archetypal War Master employ martial techniques passed down through generations. To a War Master, combat is an academic field, sometimes including subjects beyond battle such as weapon-smithing and calligraphy. Not every fighter absorbs the lessons of history, theory, and artistry that are reflected in the War Master archetype, but those who do are well-rounded fighters of great skill and knowledge.

Eldritch Knight

The archetypal Eldritch Knight combines the martial mastery common to all fighters with a careful study of magic. Eldritch Knights use magical techniques similar to those practiced by wizards. They focus their study on two of the eight schools of magic: abjuration and evocation. Abjuration spells grant an Eldritch Knight additional protection in battle, and evocation spells deal damage to many foes at once, extending the fighter’s reach in combat. These knights learn a comparatively small number of spells, committing them to memory instead of keeping them in a spellbook.

Weapon Bond

At 3rd level, you learn a ritual that creates a magical bond between yourself and one weapon. You perform the ritual over the course of 1 hour, which can be done during a short rest. The weapon must be within your reach throughout the ritual, at the conclusion of which you touch the weapon and forge the bond.

Once you have bonded a weapon to yourself, you can’t be disarmed of that weapon unless you are incapacitated. If it is on the same plane of existence, you can summon that weapon as a bonus action on your turn, causing it to teleport instantly to your hand.

You can have up to two bonded weapons, but can summon only one at a time with your bonus action. If you attempt to bond with a third weapon, you must break the bond with one of the other two.

Arcane Renewal

Starting at 3rd level, when you take a short rest, you can regain expended spell slots of a combined level equal to 1/3 of your fighter level.

Once you have used this feature, you must complete a long rest before you can use it again.

War Magic

Beginning at 7th level, when you use your action to cast a cantrip, you can make one weapon attack as a bonus action.

Eldritch Strike

At 10th level, you learn how to make your weapon strikes undercut a creature's resistance to spells. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, that creature has disadvantage on the next saving throw it makes against a spell before the end of your next turn.

Alternatively, you gain advantage on the next spell attack roll you make against the creature until the end of your next turn.

Arcane Charge

At 15th level, you gain the ability to teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space you can see when you use your Action Surge. You can teleport at any time during the turn you use your Action Surge. After you teleport, you have advantage on the next weapon attack you make before the end of the turn.

Improved War Magic

Starting at 18th level, when you use your action to cast a spell, you can make one weapon attack as a bonus action.

Duellist

Those that follow the archetype of the Duellist dedicate their lives to the blade. They are perfectionists in their art. Through dedication, meditation, and sheer determination their weapon skills are paralleled by none. Their weapon is not merely a tool used to kill; it is an extension of their very being.

Improved Vantage

Starting at 15th level, your Vantage attacks go beyond the limit. You gain these benefits to your Vantage attacks:

• The number of times you can use your Vantage ability becomes equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1) plus your Dexterity modifier (minimum of 1) or Strength modifier (minimum of 1), whichever is higher.
• You can now draw your weapon in a blink of an eye; you no longer need to have your weapon drawn to use Vantage.
• You can make Vantage attacks while surprised, but still can't make them if your foe has advantage against you.

Final Stand

At 18th level, if you are dropped to 0 hit points by an attack by a foe you can see and aren't killed outright, in a last surge of will you can return to 1 hit point and you may move up to double your speed as a free action towards the foe who dealt the damage to you to trigger this feature. You then must spend all of your remaining uses of vantage against that foe if you are within range.

This feature allows you to add your Dexterity or Strength modifier to the damage of your vantage attacks used whilst in your final stand (whichever is higher).

If you have no Vantages uses left, you cannot use this feature.

Bloodreaver

The archetypal Bloodreaver employs their own flesh and blood in the slaughter of their enemies. To a Bloodreaver, battle is everything. It isn’t winning or losing that drives them so much as it is the opportunity for a good fight. And when they find that fight, they use everything they have to contest their opponent. They utilize blood sacrifices to grant themselves additional offensive and defensive capabilities, though at a steep cost.

Glade Warrior

The glade warrior is a rook of the sylvans; warriors who are the basis of grim fairy tales, reasons to not wander from home, and the awe-inspiring uncivilized people alike.

They are gifted magical powers through the whispers, sounds, and chants of the fey they serve. For some, they have been called to soldier this way since birth, accustomed more towards their Archfey's masters' voices than their own parents; others, they are tricked, trapped, or beguiled into servitude. They are shrewd, the fey; scheming, intelligent, and carnal.

Spellcasting

When you reach 3rd level, your trained martial ability is complemented with the power of fey whispers - words of magic. See chapter 10 for the general rules of spellcasting and chapter 11 for the bard spell list.

Cantrips. You learn two cantrips of your choice from the bard spell list. You learn an additional bard cantrip of your choice at 10th level.

Spell Slots. The Glade Warrior Spellcasting table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

For example, if you know the 1st-level spell bane and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast bane using either slot.

Spells Known of 1st-Level and Higher. You know three 1st-level bard spells of your choice, two of which you must choose from the divination and enchantment spells on the bard spell list.

The Spells Known column of the Glade Warrior Spellcasting table shows when you learn more bard spells of 1st level or higher. Two of these spells must be a divination or an enchantment spell of your choice, and must be of a level for which you have spell slots. For instance, when you reach 7th level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level.

The spells you learn at 8th, 14th, and 20th level can come from any school of magic.

Whenever you gain a level in this class, you can replace on of the bard spells you know with another spell of your choice from the bard spell list. The new spell must be of a level for which you have spell slots, and it must be a divination or an enchantment spell, unless you're replacing the spell you gained at 8th, 14th, or 20th level.

Spellcasting Ability. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your bard spells, since your spells come as power for you to command. You use your Charisma whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Charisma modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a bard spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

• Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier
• Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Charisma modifier

Witch Knight

At 3rd level, when a creature you are fighting makes a saving throw against being charmed by a spell you cast, it does not have advantage on the saving throw.

Beguiling Wind

At 7th level, you can use a bonus action to conjure a mysterious wind in a 30-foot-radius sphere around you. The wind spreads around corners, and blows away any gasses in its area. An allied creature that starts its turn in the wind gains resistance to psychic damage, and an additional 5 feet added to their base movement.

An enemy creature that starts its turn in the wind must make a Wisdom saving throw or suffer disadvantage on the next attack roll, ability check, or saving throw it makes.

Twilight Aspect

Beginning at 10th level, you can see in dim light as if it were bright light. In addition, if you are in bright light, others perceive you as if you were in dim.

Soldier of the Archfey

At 15th level, you cannot be put to sleep by magical means, nor can you be charmed.

In addition, you no longer require sleep, but fill your long rests with light activity.

Charmblade

Starting at 18th level, if you hit a creature, that creature makes attacks against you at disadvantage until the end of your next turn. Additionally, the creature has disadvantage against any spell you cast that would charm them.

Cavalier

The archetypal Cavalier excels at mounted combat. Usually born among the nobility and raised at court, a Cavalier is equally at home leading a cavalry charge or exchanging repartee at a state dinner. Cavaliers also learn how to guard those in their charge from harm, often serving as the protectors of their superiors and of the weak. Compelled to right wrongs or earn prestige, many of these fighters leave their lives of comfort to embark on glorious adventure.

Bonus Proficiency

When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you gain proficiency in the Animal Handling Skill, and one other skill of your choice from the following list: History, Insight, Performance, or Persuasion.

Alternatively, instead of learning the additional chosen skill, you can learn a language of your choice instead.

Born to the Saddle

Starting at 3rd level, your mastery as a rider becomes apparent. You have advantage on saving throws made to avoid falling off your mount. If you fall off your mount and descend no more than 10 feet, you can land on your feet if you’re not incapacitated.

Finally, mounting or dismounting a creature costs you only 5 feet of movement, rather than half your speed.

Unwavering Mark

Starting at 3rd level, you can menace your foes, foiling their attacks and punishing them for harming others. When you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can mark the creature until the end of your next turn. This effect ends early if you are incapacitated or you die, or if someone else marks the creature.

While it is within 5 feet of you, a creature marked by you has disadvantage on any attack roll that doesn’t target you.

In addition, if a creature marked by you deals damage to anyone other than you, you can make a special melee weapon attack against the marked creature as a bonus action on your next turn. You have advantage on the attack roll, and if it hits, the attacks weapon deals extra damage to the target equal to half your fighter level.

Regardless of the number of creatures you mark, you can make this special attack a number of times equal to your Strength modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses of it when you finish a long rest.

Warding Stand

At 7th level, you learn to fend off strikes directed at you, your mount, or other creatures nearby. If you or a creature you can see within 5 feet of you is hit by an attack, you can roll ld8 as a reaction if you’re wielding a melee weapon or a shield. Roll the die, and add the number rolled to the target’s AC against that attack. If the attack still hits, the target has resistance against the attack’s damage.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses of it when you finish a long rest.

Hold the Line

At 10th level, you become a master of locking down your enemies. Creatures provoke an opportunity attack from you when they move 5 feet or more while within your reach, and if you hit a creature with an opportunity attack, the target’s speed is reduced to 0 until the end of the current turn.

Ferocious Charge

Starting at 15th level, you can run down your foes, whether you’re mounted or not. If you move at least 10 feet in a straight line right before attacking a creature and you hit it with the attack, that target must succeed on a Strength saving throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier) or be knocked prone. You can use this feature only once on each of your turns.

Vigilant Defender

Starting at 18th level, you respond to danger with extraordinary vigilance. In combat, you get a special reaction that you can take once on every creature’s turn, except your turn. You can use this special reaction only to make an opportunity attack, and you can’t use it on the same turn that you take your normal reaction.

Bastion

This archetype focuses on protection of one's allies, whilst remaining an effective fighter. Fighters of this path are defenders of the weak and often appear as knights, but also have been trained to maintain their own internal harmony. The goals of a bastion can aim to sunder enemies and to protect allies.

Stronghold of Harmony

Also, at 15th level, your nature brings hope to your allies. As an action on your turn, you can expend a use of your resilient feature. When you do, each creature you choose within 60 feet that can see and hear you gains immunity to the frightened condition and temporary hit points equal to your fighter level, both of which last until the start of your next turn.

Undying Armsman

Beginning at 18th level, your nature as a bastion is unending, and you are unbreakable. At the start of each of your turns, if you have at least 1 hit point remaining and have taken damage since the start of your previous turn, you regain hit points equal to your Constitution modifier.

Brute

Brutes are simple warriors who rely on mighty attacks and their own durability to overcome their enemies. Some brutes combine this physical might with tactical cunning. Others just hit things until those things stop hitting back.

Manoeuvres

If a manoeuvres has prerequisites, you must meet them to learn it. You can learn a manoeuvre at the same time that you meet its prerequisites.

Disarming Attack

When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can choose to do no damage, and instead force it to make a Strength or Dexterity saving throw (their choice). On a failed save, it drops one item of your choice that it is holding. The object lands at its feet.

Superiority. You still roll damage as a part of this manoeuvre.

Distracting Strike

When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can forgo any damage your attack deals to distract the creature, giving your allies an opening. 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.

Superiority. You still roll damage as a part of this manoeuvre.

Eldritch Blade

Prerequisites: Eldritch Knight archetype
When you make an attack with your bonded weapon on your turn, you can turn the edge of the blade into eldritch energy. Any bludgeoning, piercing or slashing damage your weapon deals is replaced by force damage, and is increased by 2.

Superiority. The bonus damage dealt is increased by your Intelligence modifier.

Evasive Footwork

Prerequisite: Duellist archetype
You can use the Dash action as a bonus action.

Superiority. You also gain the benefit of the disengage action as a part of this manoeuvre.

Feinting Attack

Prerequisite: Duellist archetype
You can use a bonus action on your turn to feint, choosing one creature within 5 feet of you as your target. You have advantage on the next attack roll with a melee weapon against that creature.

Superiority. In addition, the target cannot take any reactions until the end of your next turn.

Goading Attack

When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can forgo any damage your attack deals to attempt to goad the creature into attacking you. That creature 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.

Superiority. You still roll damage as a part of this manoeuvre.

Lunging Attack

When you make a melee attack on your turn, you can extend the reach for that attack by 5 feet.

Superiority. Your range for all melee attacks made until the start of your next turn is increased by 5 feet.

Menacing Attack

Prerequisite: Champion
When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can forgo any damage your attack deals to attempt to frighten the target. The target must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, it is frightened of you until the start of your next turn.

Superiority. All hostile creatures that can see or hear you within 10 feet when you make this attack must also make this Wisdom saving throw.

Overpowering Force

Prerequisite: Brute archetype
When you make an attack roll against a creature, you can forgo bonus to your damage damage granted by your Brute Force feature, instead applying it to your current attack roll.

Superiority. You add your Brute Force Damage die to both your attack roll and your damage roll, using the same roll for both.

Parry

When another creature damages you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to reduce the damage by an amount equal to your Dexterity modifier.

Superiority. You reduce the damage taken by half instead.

Pillar of Resilience

Prerequisite: Bastion archetype
When you use your pillars of protection feature, you gain the benefits of your resilient feature as if the damage dealt to the target creature was dealt to you.

Superiority. The target creature also gains the benefits of your resilient feature against the triggered damage type.

Protect Steed

Prerequisite: Cavalier archetype
When a creature hits your mount with a weapon attack whilst you are within 5 feet of it, you can use your reaction to instead take the attack as if it targetted you. The attack can miss you if it does not exceed or equal your AC.

Superiority. You can use another manoeuvre this round, despite you having used this one.

Pushing Attack

Prerequisite: Champion archetype
When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can attempt to drive the target back. If the target is Medium or smaller, it must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, you can push the target up to 10 feet away from you.

Superiority. You can push targets that are Huge or smaller. Creatures of your size or smaller have disadvantage on their saving throw.

Quick Words

Prerequisite: Glade Warrior archetype
When you take the attack action on your turn, you can forgo one of your attacks to cast a divination or enchantment cantrip you know.

Superiority. You can make a weapon attack as part of this maneuver.

Rally

Prerequisite: War Master archetype
On your turn, you can use a bonus action to bolster the resolve of your companions. When you do so, choose any number of creatures within 30 feet that can see or hear you. Those creatures gains temporary hit points equal to your Charisma modifier.

Superiority. You add your proficiency bonus to the temporary hit point gained.

Repositioning Command

Prerequisite: War Master archetype
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 allies to reposition themselves. When you do so, choose a friendly creature who can see or hear you. That creature can immediately use its reaction to move up to half its speed.

Superiority. Directing a companion to move is now a free action, and does not take up one of your attacks.

Rider's Command

Prerequisite: Cavalier archetype
When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can forgo one of your attacks to have your mount attack a creature within its reach, adding half your Strength modifier (minimum of 1) to its attack roll. You can only use this manoeuvre whilst mounted.

Superiority. Commanding your mount to attack does not take up one of your attacks, and is now a part of your Attack action as an additional attack.

Second Wind

You have a reserve of stamina that you can draw on to recover from harm. On your turn, you can use a bonus action to regain hit points equal to half your fighter level (minimum of 1). You can only use this feature if you have taken damage since the start of your previous turn.

Superiority. You instead regain hit points equal to your fighter level.

Sweeping Attack

Prerequisite: Champion archetype
When you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can 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 yor Strength modifier. The damage is of the same type dealt by the original attack

Superiority. The damage is instead equal to half the damage dealt to the original target.

Syphoning Strike

Prerequisite: Bloodreaver archetype
When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can choose to half any bludgeoning, piercing or slashing damage that it deals. When you do so, you regain hit points equal to the total bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damage the attack dealt. You cannot use this feature in the same attack that you use a Sanguine Strike on.

Superiority. You do not half the bludgeoning, piercing or slashing damage dealt on the attack.

Trip Attack

On your turn, you can forgo one of your attacks to attempt a tripping manoeuvre to knock you target down. If the target is Large or smaller, it must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, you knock the target prone.

Superiority. You can target a creature that is Huge or smaller instead. If they fail the saving throw, they take damage equal to your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice) as well.

Warp Strike

Prerequisite: Eldritch Knight archetype
Before you make a weapon attack with your bonded weapon, you can use your bonus action to teleport up to 10 feet closer to your target.

Superiority. You can teleport an additional 10 feet after making the attack roll.

Multiclassing

Ability Score Minimum. Strength 13 or Dexterity 13
Proficiencies Gained. Light armour, medium armour, shields, simple weapons, martial weapons