Alternate

Fighter Expanded

In 5e, the Fighter, while mechanically balanced, falls short of the fantasy it tries to capture. The Alternate Fighter strives to recapture the fantasy of playing a master of battle. Included her are additional options for the Alternate Fighter:

Additional Fighting Styles. The Fighting Styles included in this document may be more exotic, specific, or dangerous than those included with the base Alternate Fighter class.

Advanced Martial Exploits. The Exploits included here may be harder to learn, or require a specific master to teach. Advanced Exploits are often more fantastical in nature, and are balanced based on spells that currently exist in 5e.

Martial Feats. The seven Feats included here allow all characters to share in the abilities of the Alternate Fighter.

Additional Archetypes. Included below are nine bonus Warrior Archetypes for Fighters to choose from at 3rd level.

Fighter Builds. Finally, included at the conclusion of this document are example builds for the Alternate Fighter.

Fighting Styles

The additional Fighting Styles listed here are available to the Alternate Fighter, along with those included in the base class.

If a Fighting Style has a prerequisite, you can learn it at the same time that you meet all of its prerequisites.

1st-Degree Exploits

Exploits of the 1st-degree are minor techniques slightly more complicated than swinging a weapon. They can be learned by Fighters with modest training and have no level prerequisite.

2nd-Degree Exploits

Exploits of the 2nd-degree represent the peak of martial skill achievable by warriors without dedicated training. These can be learned by any Fighter of 5th level or higher.

Pinning Shot

Prerequisite: 5th-level, Strength or Dexterity of 13
When you hit a creature with a ranged or thrown weapon attack, you can expend an Exploit Die and force it to make a Strength or Dexterity saving throw (its choice). On a failure, add the Exploit Die to the damage and its speed becomes 0.

As an action, the creature can make a Strength check, and on a success the effects of this Exploit end.

Adrenaline Rush

Prerequisites: 9th-level, Constitution of 15
As a bonus action, you can expend an Exploit Die to increase your speed, if only temporarily. For the next minute, you can take the Dash action as a bonus action on each of your turns, including the bonus action you used to use this Exploit.

Daring Rescue

Prerequisite: 9th-level
When a friendly creature that you can see within 30 feet is reduced to 0 hit points, you can use your reaction to expend an Exploit Die, gaining temporary hit points equal to twice your Exploit Die, then move up to twice your speed.

If you move within 5 feet of the downed creature, you can pick them up so long as you have a free hand, carrying them up to the remaining distance. If this movement provokes any opportunity attacks, these attacks must target you, not the
                                 creature that you are carrying.

                                     At the end of this special movement,
                                     your remaining temporary hit points are
                                      transferred to the creature you carried,
                                       it regains 1 hit point, and can stand up.

Dance of Death

Prerequisites: 13th-level, Dexterity of 17
As an action on your turn, you can expend Exploit Dice (up
to your Proficiency Bonus) and choose a number of targets you can see within 30 feet equal to 1 + the number of Dice expended, forcing them to make a Dexterity saving throw. Creatures take damage of one hit with your weapon + your Exploit Die on a failure, and half as much on a success.

For each creature you reduce to 0 hit points, you can force another creature in range to make the Dexterity saving throw.

Once the Exploit ends, you appear in an unoccupied space of your choice next to the last target of this Exploit.

Equip Militia

Prerequisite: 13th-level
You can expend an Exploit Die and spend 1 hour training a number of humanoids equal to your level to fight. Creatures that spend the full hour listening and training with you gain two of the following benefits of your choice:

• They gain proficiency with one martial weapon.
• They gain proficiency with light armor and shields.
• They gain temporary hit points equal to your level.
• They gain proficiency in one of the following skills: Animal Handling, Athletics, Medicine, Survival, or Stealth.
• They gain proficiency in Wisdom saving throws.

These benefits last for each creature until it finishes a long rest. You can't regain this Exploit Die while the benefits last.

Sundering Strike

Prerequisite: 13th-level, Strength of 17
In place of an attack, you can expend an Exploit Die to strike a creation of magical force, such as a prismatic wall, resilient sphere, or forcecage with a melee weapon. Magical creations from a spell slot of 3rd-level or lower are instantly destroyed.

If it was created by a spell slot of 4th-level or higher, make a Strength check. DC equals 10 + the level of the spell slot. On a success, the magical creation is instantly destroyed.

Banishing Strike

Prerequisites: 17th-level, Strength of 19
When you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can expend an Exploit Die to strike with legendary power, dealing bonus force damage equal to four times your Exploit Die and forcing it to make a Charisma saving throw.

On a failure, it shunted to a harmless demiplane where it is incapacitated. At the beginning of your next turn, the creature reappears in the unoccupied space closest to the space it left.

Cataclysmic Slam

Prerequisites: 17th-level, Strength of 19
As an action on your turn, you can expend Exploit Dice (up
to your Proficiency Bonus) to strike the ground with mythic force. A shockwave ripples out from you, forcing all targets within 30 feet to make a Strength saving throw. On a failure, targets take bludgeoning damage equal to twice your Exploit Die for each Exploit Die spent + your Strength modifier and fall prone. On a success, they take half damage and don't fall prone. Objects in this area take maximum damage.

The area becomes difficult terrain. A creature can spend
1 minute to clear one 5-foot square of this difficult terrain.

Mythic Focus

Prerequisites: 17th-level, Constitution of 19
As a bonus action, you can expend one Exploit Die to enter a heightened state of focus, which requires your concentration. While concentrating on this Exploit, you gain these benefits:

• You gain 50 temporary hit points. If any of these remain when the effects of this Exploit end, they are lost.
• You have advantage on any weapon attacks you make.
• Once per turn when you hit with a weapon attack, you deal bonus damage equal to your Exploit Die.
• You gain a bonus to Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution saving throws equal to your Exploit Die.
• When you take the Attack action on your turn, you can make one additional weapon attack as part of that action.

The effects of this Exploit lasts for up to 1 minute, but they end early if you are incapacitated or you choose to end them.

This Exploit doesn't stack with tenser's transformation.

Vorpal Strike

Prerequisites: 17th-level, Strength or Dexterity of 19
When you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can expend one Exploit Die to strike with legendary force, dealing bonus damage equal to four times your Exploit Die.

If the damage of this Exploit reduces the target's remaining hit points to 50 or fewer, you cut off one of the its heads. If the creature cannot survive without the lost head, it is killed.

Creatures can use a Legendary Resistance to avoid being beheaded. Creatures that don't have or don't need a head are immune to this Exploit's effects, but still take the damage.

Alternate Defensive Duelist

Updated Defensive Duelist Feat
Prerequisite: Dexterity of 13 or higher
When a creature you can see hits you with a melee attack while you are wielding a finesse or light melee weapon you are proficient with, you can use your reaction to add your Dexterity modifier to your Armor Class against that attack.

When you use this reaction and the attack misses, you can make a single melee weapon attack against your attacker as part of the same reaction.

Alternate Fighting Initiate

Updated Fighting Initiate Feat
Prerequisite: Proficiency with a martial weapon
You have dedicated time to master a specific style of fighting. When you select this Feat you gain the following benefits:

• Increase either your Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution score by 1, up to a maximum of 20.
• You learn one Fighting Style of your choice choosing from those available to the Alternate Fighter. You cannot learn the same Fighting Style more then once. In order to learn a Fighting Style you must meet any prerequisites it has.

Alternate Great Weapon Master

Updated Great Weapon Master Feat
Prerequisite: Strength of 13 or higher
You have honed your skills with massive weapons to
overwhelm your foes. You gain the following benefits:

• If you reduce a creature to 0 hit points or score a
  critical hit with a heavy melee weapon you can
  use a bonus action on that turn to make one
  attack with that same weapon.
• Whenever you hit a creature that
  is equal to your size or smaller
  with a heavy melee weapon
  attack you can knock
  it back 5 feet away
  from you in a line, so
  long as the space that
  is behind it is unoccupied.

Martial Training

You have studied the combat techniques of elite
warriors. You gain the following benefits:

• You learn two 1st-degree Martial Exploits from
  those available to the Alternate Fighter. If an
  Exploit you use requires the target to make a
  saving throw, the DC equals 8 + your Proficiency
  Bonus + your Strength or Dexterity modifier .
• You gain two d4 Exploit Dice to fuel your Exploits.
  They are expended when you use them, and you
  regain them when you finish a short or long rest.
• If you already have Exploit Dice from another class
  or subclass feature or Feat, you instead gain one
  Exploit Die equal in size to your other Exploit Dice.

Signature Technique

Prerequisites: At least one Martial Exploit Known
You have practiced a single technique to the point of mastery. Choose a 1st-degree Exploit you know from those available to the Alternate Fighter that does not restore hit points.

In combat, you can use this Exploit once per round without expending an Exploit Die, rolling a d4 for the Exploit Die. You regain this feature at the start of each of your turns.

Weapon Adept

Updated Weapon Master Feat
You have spent many hours honing your skills with the deadly armaments of war. You gain the benefits listed below:

• Increase either your Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution score by 1, up to a maximum of 20.
• You gain proficiency with all simple and martial weapons.

Weapon Master

Proficiency with all simple and martial weapons
You wield weapons with a deadly efficiency that is impressive even to most trained warriors. Choose a number of simple or martial weapons equal to your Proficiency Bonus. Whenever you make an attack with those weapons you gain a +1 bonus
            to both the attack and damage roll.

              As your Proficiency Bonus increases, you choose
                          additional weapons to gain this benefit.

Crusader Exploits

3rd-level Crusader Archetype feature
You learn certain Exploits at the Fighter levels noted in the table below. They don't count against your total number of Exploits Known and can't be switched upon gaining a level.

Crusader's Ire

3rd-level Crusader Archetype feature
You mark your foes for judgment. As a bonus action, you can Mark a creature you can see within 60 feet as the target of your Crusader's Ire, granting you the following benefits:

• Once per turn when you miss the creature with a weapon attack, you can immediately make another weapon attack against that creature using the same weapon.
• When the creature is within your reach and casts a spell or makes an attack against a creature other than you, you can make an opportunity attack against it as a reaction.
• Whenever it forces you to make a saving throw, you gain
  a bonus to your roll equal to your Exploit Die.

Your Mark lasts for 1 minute, until the creature is slain, or until you use this feature to Mark another creature. You can use this feature once per short or long rest as no cost, after which, you must expend one Exploit Die to use it again.

Fanatical Disciple

3rd-level Crusader Archetype feature
You are an obsessive follower of your faith, learning all you can. You gain proficiency in Religion, and whenever you make an Intelligence (Religion) check related to your god or cause, you gain a bonus to your roll equal to your Exploit Die.

Renewed Fervor

7th-level Crusader Archetype feature
Your fanaticism grants you bursts of fervor in battle. When you use Second Wind you regain the use of Crusader's Ire.

Also, when you Mark a creature with Crusader's Ire, you can move up to 30 feet toward it as part of the same bonus
    action without expending your movement.

Guardian Exploits

3rd-level Guardian Archetype feature
You learn certain Exploits at the Fighter levels noted in the table below. They don't count against your total number of Exploits Known and can't be switched upon gaining a level.

Iron Guardian

3rd-level Guardian Archetype feature
You have trained to defend others, no matter the personal cost. You gain one of the following Fighting Styles of your choice: Defensive Fighting, Protector, or Shield Warrior.
It doesn't count against your number of Fighting Styles,
and can only be replaced by a Style from the list above.

Also, if you are wielding a shield and a creature within
5 feet of you it hit by an attack, you can use reposition as
a reaction. You can choose to do so without expending an
Exploit Die, but no temporary hit points are gained.

When you use this reaction, you only take the damage
of the triggering attack if it would have also hit you.

Warrior Smith

3rd-level Guardian Archetype feature
You have learned to keep your armor in peak condition.
You gain proficiency in smith's tools. Whenever you make
an ability check that uses smith's tools you gain a bonus
to your roll equal to your Exploit Die.

Also, during the course of a long rest, you can spend 1
hour using your smith's tools to improve one set of armor
or a shield you touch. It grants its user +1 bonus to Armor Class until the beginning of your next long rest.

Inspiring Sentinel

7th-level Guardian Archetype feature
You presence inspires others to stand their ground. When
you use Second Wind, creatures of your choice within 5
feet of you gain temporary hit points equal to 1d6 + your Constitution modifier (minimum of 1).

Moreover, when you use your Iron Guardian reaction,
reposition grants temporary hit points even if you do not
expend an Exploit Die as part of the reaction.

Stalwart Defender

10th-level Guardian Archetype feature
You are strongest when standing alongside your allies.
The range of your Iron Guardian reaction now includes
creatures within 10 feet, so long as there is a clear path
for you to move to that creature. This reaction also does
    not end defensive stance or hold the line for you.

Adamant Guardian

15th-level Guardian Archetype feature
You improve your defensive technique to better defend your allies. The range of your Iron Guardian reaction increases to include creatures you can see within 15 feet, so long as there is a clear path for you to move to the creature.

You are also no longer limited to using daring rescue once between each short or long rest.

Legendary Guardian

18th-level Guardian Archetype feature
You are a legendary shield for those who fight beside you. You gain a special reaction that you can take once per turn, but it can only be used for Iron Guardian, your Guardian Exploits, or opportunity attacks.

Guerrilla

No matter the mission, a Guerrilla will execute it with utmost perfection. Sometimes known as commandos, these warriors are marked by their determination and adaptability. Whether harsh terrain, vicious monsters, enemy soldiers, or powerful spellcasters, nothing short of death will cause the willpower of a Guerrilla warrior to waver in the pursuit of their goals.

Loyal Hound

3rd-level Hound Master Archetype feature
When you adopt this Archetype, you complete the
training of a Loyal Hound. Your Hound is friendly
to you and your allies and obeys your commands.
It uses the Loyal Hound stat block, which uses your Proficiency Bonus (PB) and Exploit save DC. Your
Loyal Hound uses the following rules:

Combat. In combat, your Hound acts during your
turn. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but
it only takes the Dodge action unless you use a bonus
action to order it to take an action from its stat block,
or to take another action. Also, whenever you take the
Attack action on your turn, you can forgo one attack to
order your Hound to make a single Bite attack.

If you are Incapacitated, your Hound can act on its own
and will defend you and itself to the best of its abilities.

Dying. If your Hound is reduced to 0 hit points, it makes death saving throws like a player character would. When the Hound is at 0 hit points, you can use an action to touch it and expend one Exploit Die to automatically stabilize it.

Training a New Hound. If your Hound dies, you can spend 8 hours training a replacement for your Loyal Hound, so long as a suitably canine-type creature can be found. Once trained, the creature uses the Loyal Hound stat block.

Hound Master Exploits

3rd-level Hound Master Archetype feature
You learn certain Exploits at the Fighter levels noted in the table below. They don't count against your total number of Exploits Known and can't be switched upon gaining a level.

Iron Jaws

7th-level Hound Master Archetype feature
Your Loyal Hound is infused with a portion of your fighting spirit. The damgae of your Hound's Bite attack is considered to be magical for overcoming resistances and immunities.

War Hound

7th-level Hound Master Archetype feature
You train your Hound to use basic combat maneuvers. Over the course of 1 hour, which can be during a short or long rest, you teach your Loyal Hound one 1st-degree Exploit you know that it could reasonably use. It gains one Exploit Die equal to yours which it can expend to use its Exploits, and it regains all Exploit Dice after a short or long rest.

Your Loyal Hound can be trained to use two Exploits, but you can use this feature to replace one of its current Martial Exploits with another Exploit following the same guidelines.

Steadfast Companions

10th-level Hound Master Archetype feature
You can face any foe so long as your Hound is by your side. While you and your Loyal Hound are within 30 feet of each other you both gain a special reaction which you can use to grant the other advantage on a saving throw.

Canine Fury

15th-level Hound Master Archetype feature
Once per turn when you order your Loyal Hound to make a Bite attack, it can make two Bite attacks instead of one.

In addition, you can use War Hound to teach your Loyal Hound 2nd-degree Exploits, it can be trained to use up to three Exploits, and it gains a second Exploit Die.

Hound of Legend

18th-level Hound Master Archetype feature
Infused by mythic power of your bond, your Hound rivals the great beasts of legend and myth. Your Loyal Hound uses the Hound of Legend stat block in place of its previous stats.

Finally, when your Loyal Hound is slain, it reforms after 1 hour, appearing in an unoccupied space within 15 feet.

Pugilist Exploits

3rd-level Pugilist Archetype feature
You learn certain Exploits at the Fighter levels noted in the table below. They don't count against your total number of Exploits Known and can't be switched upon gaining a level.

Contender

3rd-level Pugilist Archetype feature
Your body itself is a deadly weapon. You learn the Brawling Fighting Style, and the damage die of your unarmed strikes increases to match the size of your Exploit Die.

If you already know this Fighting Style, you instead learn Improvised Fighting. Regardless, the Fighting Style you gain here does not count against your number of Fighting Styles.

Iron Physique

3rd-level Pugilist Archetype feature
Your battle-hardened physique allows you to shrug off blows that would send a normal person reeling. You can use your Constitution, in place of Dexterity, when calculating your Armor Class in light and medium armor. Moreover, when
you are not wearing armor, your Armor Class equals 10
+ your Dexterity modifier + your Constitution modifier.

Lastly, whenever you take damage from a source you
can see, you can use brace up as a reaction, gaining the
temporary hit points before you take any damage.

Counter Punch

7th-level Pugilist Archetype feature
You have learned to exploit every opening your foes give you. When a creature you can see misses you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to make an unarmed strike, shove, grapple, or improvised weapon attack against it.

If you use force a creature to make a saving throw as part of this reaction attack, it has disadvantage on its roll.

Resolute Strikes

7th-level Pugilist Archetype feature
The grit that only comes from a life on the streets fuels your fists. Your unarmed strikes and improvised weapon attacks count as magical for overcoming resistance and immunity.

Evasive Footwork

10th-level Pugilist Archetype feature
You have trained to evade your foes' strikes in combat. When you take the Attack action on your turn and make at least one unarmed strike, grapple, or shove, you also gain the benefits of the Disengage action until the end of that turn.

Diamond Physique

15th-level Pugilist Archetype feature
You have learned to take hits that would be deadly to weaker warriors. When you use brace up with your reaction, you also gain resistance to that instance of damage.

You also learn the unbreakable Exploit, but it doesn't count against your total number of Exploits Known, and you cannot replace it with another Exploit when you gain a level.

          Legendary Pugilist

               18th-level Pugilist Archetype feature
                  Your name is known in the underbelly of every city.
                   You have advantage on saving throws to resist and
                   end being Incapacitated, Paralyzed, or Stunned.

                       Finally, whenever you score a critical hit with
                           an unarmed strike or improvised weapon, the
                                        target falls prone and is Stunned until
                                                             the start of your next turn.

Down to Earth

3rd-level Quartermaster Archetype feature
You gain proficiency in cook's utensils, land vehicles, and Animal Handling. Whenever you make an ability check
that uses any of these proficiencies, you a bonus to
your roll equal to your Exploit Die.

Rations

3rd-level Quartermaster Archetype feature
You have learned to prepare potent the foodstuffs
known as Rations which keep your allies in peak
condition. Rations use the rules below:

Preparing Rations. During the course of
each long rest, you can spend 1 hour with
cook's utensils and prepare a number of
Rations up to your Constitution modifier
choosing from the list of Rations on the
following page. If a Ration has a Fighter
level prerequisite, you can prepare that
Ration as soon as you meet its prerequisite.

The Rations you prepare lose all beneficial
properties at the end of your next long rest.

Consuming Rations. While holding a Ration, a creature can use a bonus action to eat it or feed it to a creature within 5 feet. Consuming a Ration instantly grants you its benefits, and immediately ends any other Ration benefits.

On the Fly. As an action, you can expend one Exploit Die and use a set of cook's utensils to prepare one Ration of your choice. However, you cannot regain the Exploit Die you spent to prepare this Ration until that Ration is consumed.

Quartermaster Exploits

3rd-level Quartermaster Archetype feature
You learn certain Exploits at the Fighter levels noted in the table below. They don't count against your total number of Exploits Known and can't be switched upon gaining a level.

Dependable Ally

7th-level Quartermaster Archetype feature
You are always prepared to lend a helping hand to a comrade. When you take the Attack action, you can forgo any number of attacks to use one of the following in place of an attack:

• Take the Help action targeting a creature within 10 feet.
• Take the Use an Object action to feed a Ration, potion, or another consumable item to a creature you can touch.
• Make an ability check using a Down to Earth proficiency.
• Give one weapon, item, or shield to a creature you can touch. It instantly equips that item and stows one item.

Fortifying Ration

Prerequisite: 3rd-level Fighter (duration, 1 minute)
Upon consumption, the creature chooses either its Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution. For the duration, the creature can add your Constitution modifier (minimum of +1) to any ability check or saving throw with the chosen ability score.

Invigorating Ration

Prerequisite: 3rd-level Fighter (duration, instantaneous)
Upon consumption, the creature regains hit points equal to twice your Exploit Die + your Constitution modifier.

At 10th level, hit points restored that exceed the target's hit point maximum become temporary hit points.

Limbering Ration

Prerequisite: 3rd-level Fighter (duration, 1 minute)
Upon consumption, the creature's speed increases by 10 feet.

At 10th level, the creature's speed increases by 20 feet.

Revitalizing Ration

Prerequisite: 3rd-level Fighter (duration, instantaneous)
Upon consumption, the creature ends one of the following conditions afflicting it: Blinded, Deafened, or Poisoned, or it can reduce its current level of Exhaustion by 1.

At 10th level, this Ration can also remove the Charmed, Frightened, Paralyzed, and Stunned conditions.

Stimulating Ration

Prerequisite: 3rd-level Fighter (duration, instantaneous)
This Ration must be consumed as part of a short rest. Upon consumption, the creature gains advantage on its rolls for all Hit Dice it chooses to expend during that short rest.

At 10th level, consuming this Ration allows the
creature to treat any Hit Dice it expends during
that short rest as the maximum possible roll..

Engorging Ration

Prerequisite: 7th-level Fighter (duration, 1 minute)
Upon consumption, the creature becomes Large if it was not already. For the duration, its reach increases by 5 feet, it has advantage on Strength checks and saving throws, and its melee weapon attacks it makes deal a bonus 1d4 damage.

Heightening Ration

Prerequisite: 7th-level Fighter (duration, 1 minute)
Upon consumption, the creature chooses either Intelligence, Wisdom, or Charisma. For the duration, the creature can add your Constitution modifier (minimum of +1) to ability checks and saving throws with the chosen ability score.

Thickening Ration

Prerequisite: 7th-level Fighter (duration, 1 minute)
Upon consumption, the creature gains resistance to either bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage (its choice).

At 10th level, consuming this Ration grants it resistance
to all bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.

Warding Ration

Prerequisite: 7th-level Fighter (duration, 1 minute)
Upon consumption, the creature gains resistance to one of the following: acid, cold, fire, poison, or lighting damage.

At 10th level, the creature can also choose force, necrotic, psychic, radiant, or thunder damage resistance.

Berserker Ration

Prerequisite: 15th level (duration, 1 minute)
Upon consumption, the creature does not fall unconscious when reduced to 0 hit points. However, it still makes death saving throws as normal, and dies instantly if it fails three.

Rejuvenating Ration

Prerequisite: 15th level (duration, instant)
Upon consumption, the creature instantly gains the benefits of a short rest, including the ability to expend Hit Dice. At the end of its current turn, it gains 1 level of Exhaustion that can only be reduced by magic or completing a long rest.

Swordsage Exploits

3rd-level Swordsage Archetype feature
You learn certain Exploits at the Fighter levels noted in the table below. They don't count against your total number of Exploits Known and can't be switched upon gaining a level.

Student of the Blade

3rd-level Swordsage Archetype feature
Your training has granted you skills to compliment swordplay. You gain proficiency in either Acrobatics or Performance, and you can use your Dexterity, in place of Charisma, for Performance checks that incorporate a sword.

Also, when you make a Dexterity (Acrobatics)
or a Dexterity (Performance) check you gain a
bonus to your roll equal to your Exploit Die.

Battle Trance

3rd-level Swordsage Archetype feature
You can clear your mind to enter the mystical trance that
gives Swordsages their reputation. So long as you are not
wearing heavy armor or a shield, you can use your bonus action to enter a Battle Trance. This Trance lasts for up
to 1 minute and grants you the following benefits:

• You have advantage on Dexterity (Acrobatics) checks.
• You can take the Dash action as a bonus action.
• You gain a +1 bonus to your Armor Class.
• Once per turn, you can use a Swordsage Exploit
  without expending an Exploit Die. If it requires an
  Exploit Die roll, you use a d4 in place of your Die.

Your Battle Trance ends early if you are Incapacitated,
if you don a shield or heavy armor, or if you end it with a
bonus action. You can enter a Battle Trance once per
short or long rest at no cost, after which you must
expend an Exploit Die to use this feature again.

Mythic Reflexes

7th-level Swordsage Archetype feature
Your reflexes have been honed mythic levels
in pursuit of perfection. You gain Proficiency
in Dexterity saving throws, and you add your
Proficiency Bonus to initiative rolls.

Also, your Battle Trance AC bonus becomes +2.

Reactive Trance

10th-level Swordsage Archetype feature
You slip into the Trance at a moments notice. When you
roll initiative and are not surprised or Incapacitated, you
    can enter your Battle Trance without expending a use.

Storm of Steel

15th-level Swordsage Archetype feature
You are a blur of flashing steel when you enter your Trance. Whenever you take the Dash action in the Battle Trance you also gain the benefits of the Disengage action for that turn.

In addition, whenever you roll Exploit Dice for an Exploit or another ability while you are in your Battle Trance, you can roll those Dice twice and choose which total to use.

Legendary Swordsage

18th-level Swordsage Archetype feature
You have become a Swordsage worthy of your own legends. You can enter and dismiss your Battle Trance at will, without expending a use of the feature or an Exploit Die.

Finally, whenever you take damage while you are in your Battle Trance, you can expend an Exploit Die to reduce any damage you would take by twice your Exploit Die.

Analytical Mind

3rd-level Tinker Archetype feature
You have spent as much time in workshops as you have at
the training ground. You gain proficiency with tinker's and smith's tools. If you are already proficient with these tools, you gain proficiency with a set of tools of your choice.

Whenever you make an ability check that uses these tools, you gain a bonus to your roll equal to your Exploit die.

Inventive Arsenal

3rd-level Tinker Archetype feature
You have developed a cacophony of wondrous modifications for your weapons, shields, and armor, known as Schematics. All Schematics you know use the following rules:

Schematics Known. You know two
Schematics from the list on the next
page. You must meet the Schematic's
prerequisites in order to learn it.

You learn one additional Schematic of
your choice when you reach 7th, 10th, 15th,
and 18th level in this class.

When you gain a level, you can replace a Schematic
you know with another Schematic of your choice.

Modifying Objects. During each long rest, you can
spend 1 hour using tinker's or smith's tools to touch a number of objects equal to the number of Schematics
you know, modifying each object with the effects of one Schematic. An object can only bear one modification.

In order to modify an object it must meet the requirements in that Schematic's description. Schematic modifications last until the end of your next long rest, at which point the objects return to normal unless you modify them again.

Only you gain the benefits from these modifications, to any other creature, the objects function as normal objects.

Saving Throws. If a Schematic requires a saving throw, your Schematic save DC is calculated as follows:

Schematics

Below are the Schematics available for Tinkers to learn. If a Schematic has a Fighter level prerequisite, you can learn it at the same time that you meet all of its prerequisites.

Pact Magic

3rd-level Witchblade Archetype feature
The bargain you have struck with your Patron has granted you the ability to cast spells, much like a Warlock does:

Cantrips. You learn one Cantrip of your choice from the Witchblade spell list. Upon reaching 10th level in this class you learn one additional Witchblade Cantrip of your choice.

Spell Slots. The Witchblade Spellcasting table shows how many spell slots you have, and the level of those spell slots. All of your spell slots from this feature are the same level. To cast one of your Witchblade spells of 1st-level or higher, you must expend a spell slot. You regain all of your expended Pact Magic spell slots when you finish a short or long rest.

Spells Known of 1st-Level and Higher. You learn two
1st-level spells of your choice from the Witchblade spell list. The Spells Known column of the Witchblade Spellcasting table shows when you learn more spells of 1st-level or higher. A spell you choose must be of a level no higher than what's shown in the table's Slot Level column for your level.

Whenever you gain a level, you can choose one Witchblade spell you know and replace it with another Witchblade spell, which must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

Spellcasting Ability. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your Witchblade spells. You use your Charisma whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability, when setting a spell saving throw DC, and when making a spell attack roll.

Witchblade Spell List

Here is the list of spells available to the Witchblade. Spells can be found in the Player's Handbook, Xanathar's Guide to Everything*, and in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything**.

Spells marked with LL are found in the laserllama Spell Compendium, which includes both new and alternate spells:

Blade Master

You are a true student of the blade and have specialized your skills for single combat. You often seek out the most powerful foes you can find in order to test your skills against them.

Bodyguard

You have trained to defend important figures and to escort precious cargo. When you are near, no foe, no matter their strength or abilities, can threaten that which you protect.

Archetype:	Guardian
Fighting Style:	Protection, Shield Warrior
Exploits:	disarm, first aid, reposition, immovable stance
Feats:	Alert, Sentinel, Shield Master

Combat Medic

Combat Medics are masters at keeping their comrades in top condition, assuaging their hurts, and keeping spirits high in battle. They always put the needs of others before their own.

Archetype:	Quartermaster
Fighting Style:	Protector, Improvised Fighting
Exploits:	brace up, first aid, exposing strike, redirect
Feats:	Chef *, Healer, Inspiring Leader

Gambler

Gamblers are wandering warriors with a knack for finding trouble and escaping by a thread. They enjoy pushing their luck and tend to specialize in thrown weapons and knives.

Archetype:	Marksman
Fighting Style:	Featherweight Fighting, Hurler, Improvised Fighting
Exploits:	feint, parry, streetwise, subtle con, dirty hit, pinning shot trick shot
Feats:	Mobile, Sharpshooter, Slasher *

Gladiator

You are as much of an entertainer as you are a Fighter. Often masters of exotic weapons and fighting styles, gladiators seek to build their reputation as wondrously extravagant warriors.

Archetype:	Master at Arms
Fighting Style:	Dual Wielding, Exotic Warrior
Exploits:	lunge, parry, taunting strike blinding debris, dirty hit
Feats:	Alt Weapon Master, Dual Wielder

Marine

Marines are warriors who are trained to fight at sea or on the decks of ships. They can be elite sailors who defend precious cargo, or ruthless pirates who pillage all they come across.

Archetype:	Guerrilla
Fighting Style:	Featherweight Fighting, Mariner
Exploits:	lightstep, lunge, sweeping strike, honor duel, menacing shout
Feats:	Keen Mind, Linguist, Resilient (Dexterity)

Peacekeeper

Often found patrolling remote territories and other lawless lands, peacekeepers use their finely honed skills and deadly accuracy with firearms to enforce the law wherever they go.

Archetype:	Marksman
Fighting Style:	Archery, Melee Marksman
Exploits:	inquisitive eye, precision strike, pinning shot, trick shot
Feats:	Alert, Gunner *, Alt Sharpshooter

Sage

Sages are wandering guardians of peace and prosperity who are raised from birth to wield their psionic potential in battle. Sages are pacifists who only use violence as a last resort.

Archetype:	Mystic
Fighting Style:	Blind Warrior, Versatile Fighting
Exploits:	mighty leap, scholarly recall, warding strike, defensive stance, heroic will
Feats:	Alert, Resilient (Wisdom), Sentinel

Vanguard

You will lead a charge into fortified enemy lines or stand strong against terrifying monsters. You attack with abandon looking to slay your foes with deadly speed and power.

Archetype:	Champion
Fighting Style:	Brawling, Great Weapon Fighting
Exploits:	brace up, hurl, lunge, mighty thrust, thunderous blow
Feats:	Crusher *, Durable, Tough