Fighter

A human in clanging plate armor holds her shield before her as she runs toward the massed goblins. An elf behind her, clad in studded leather armor, peppers the goblins with arrows loosed from his exquisite bow. The half-orc nearby shouts orders, helping the two combatants coordinate their assault to the best advantage.

A dwarf in chain mail interposes his shield between the ogre’s club and his companion, knocking the deadly blow aside. His companion, a half-elf in scale armor, swings two scimitars in a blinding whirl as she circles the ogre, looking for a blind spot in its defenses.

A gladiator fights for sport in an arena, a master with his trident and net, skilled at toppling foes and moving them around for the crowd’s delight—and his own tactical advantage. His opponent’s sword flares with blue light an instant before she sends lightning flashing forth to smite him.

All of these heroes are fighters, perhaps the most diverse class of characters in the worlds of Dungeons & Dragons. Questing knights, conquering overlords, royal champions, elite foot soldiers, hardened mercenaries, and bandit kings—as fighters, they all share an unparalleled mastery with weapons and armor, and a thorough knowledge of the skills of combat. And they are well acquainted with death, both meting it out and staring it defiantly in the face.

Trained for Danger

Not every member of the city watch, the village militia, or the queen’s army is a fighter. Most of these troops are relatively untrained soldiers with only the most basic combat knowledge. Veteran soldiers, military officers, trained bodyguards, dedicated knights, and similar figures are fighters.

Some fighters feel drawn to use their training as adventurers. The dungeon delving, monster slaying, and other dangerous work common among adventurers is second nature for a fighter, not all that different from the life he or she left behind. There are greater risks, perhaps, but also much greater rewards—few fighters in the city watch have the opportunity to discover a magic flame tongue sword, for example.

Let me know when you're all done talking.

-Tordek

Creating a Fighter

As you build your fighter, think about two related elements of your character’s background: Where did you get your combat training, and what set you apart from the mundane warriors around you? Were you particularly ruthless? Did you get extra help from a mentor, perhaps because of your exceptional dedication? What drove you to this training in the first place? A threat to your homeland, a thirst for revenge, or a need to prove yourself might all have been factors.

You might have enjoyed formal training in a noble’s army or in a local militia. Perhaps you trained in a war academy, learning strategy, tactics, and military history. Or you might be self-taught—unpolished but well tested. Did you take up the sword as a way to escape the limits of life on a farm, or are you following a proud family tradition? Where did you acquire your weapons and armor? They might have been military issue or family heirlooms, or perhaps you scrimped and saved for years to buy them. Your armaments are now among your most important possessions—the only things that stand between you and death’s embrace.

Why

Not just anyone picks up the path of martial mastery, most would prefer to utilize their emotions, or look for easier paths through trickery and deceit. Others are born with a propensity for magic, whatever kind it may be. Most fighters have a reason for why they choose to master martial might, even if they may have forgotten with time.

When creating your character, find a reason for why they choose this path. They could have been drafted into a war, and just happen to have a knack for this kind of work. Others may have forsook their natural born talent and chosen a path difficult to them out of pure spite for the source of that talent.

Heraldic Sign

Fighters typically do battle for a cause. Some fighter on behalf of kingdoms besieged by monsters, while others quest only for personal glory. In either case, a fighter often displays a heraldic sign that represents that cause, either adopting the symbol of a nation or royal line, or creating a crest to represent one's self interest.

You character could be affiliated with an organization or cause, and thus might already travel under a banner of some sort. If that's not the case, consider devising a heraldic sign that symbolizes an aspect of your nature or speaks to what you see as your purpose in the world.

Instructor

Some fighters are natural-born combatants who have a talent for surviving in battle. Others learned the basics of their combat prowess in their formative years from spending time in the military or some other martial organization, when they were taught by the leaders of the group.

A third type of fighter comes from the ranks of those who received one-on-one instruction from an accomplished veteran of the craft. That instructor was, or perhaps still is, well versed in a certain aspect of combat that relates to the student's background.

If you decide that you characters had an individual instructor, what is that person's specialty? Do you emulate your instructor in how you fight, or did you take the instructor's teachings and adapt them to your own purposes?

Style

Many Fighters distinguish themselves from their peers by adopting and perfecting a particular style or method of waging combat. Although this style might be a natural outgrowth of a fighter's personality, that's not always the case-someone's approach to the world in general doe not necessarily dictate how that person person operates when lives are on the line.

Do you have a combat style that mirrors your outlook on life, or is something else inside you unleashed when weapons are drawn?

Quick Build

You can make a fighter quickly by following these suggestions. First, make Strength or Dexterity your highest ability score, depending on whether you want to focus on melee weapons or on archery (or finesse weapons). Your next-highest score should be Constitution, or Intelligence if you plan to adopt the Eldritch Knight martial archetype. Second, choose the soldier background.

Class Features

As an Fighter, you gain the following class features.

Fighting Style

Starting at 1st Level, you adopt a particular style of Fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can’t take a Fighting Style more than once. You adopt more Fighting Styles at later levels as shown in the Fighting Styles Adopted column.

Archery
You gain a +3 bonus to Attack Rolls you make with Ranged Weapons.

Attrition
Your hit point maximum increases by 1 and then increases by 1 whenever you gain a level in this class. As a bonus action, you can choose to recover 10 hit points. You can do this once per short or long rest.

Blind Fighting
You have blindsight with a range of 30 feet. Within that range, you can effectively see anything that isn't behind total cover, even if you're blinded or in darkness. Moreover, you can see an invisible creature within that range, unless the creature successfully hides from you.

Close Quarters Shooter (UA)
When making a ranged attack while you are within 5 feet of a hostile creature, you do not have disadvantage on the attack roll. Your ranged attacks ignore half cover and three-quarters cover against targets within 30 feet of you.

Defense
While you are wearing armor, you gain a +2 bonus to AC.

Dueling
When you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no other Weapons, you gain a +3 bonus to Damage Rolls with that weapon.

Elemental Combatant. (HB)
Pick one of the following damage types: cold, fire, or lightning. You gain resistance to this damage type, and you can add damage equal to your Superiority Die of your chosen damage type to all damage you deal. Once chosen you cannot change your damage type.

Great Weapon Fighting
When you roll a 1-3 on a damage die for an attack you make with a melee weapon that you are wielding with two hands, you can choose to take the average roll for that die rounded up. The weapon must have the two-handed or versatile property for you to gain this benefit.

Interception
When a creature you can see hits a target, other than you, within 5 feet of you with an attack, you can use your reaction to reduce the damage the target takes by one roll of your Superiority Die + your Proficiency Bonus (to a minimum of 0 damage). If you're not wielding a shield or weapon when taking this reaction, you take half of the damage that you reduced.

Thrown Weapon Fighting
You can draw a weapon that has the thrown property as part of the attack you make with the weapon. In addition, when you hit with a ranged attack using a thrown weapon, you gain a +3 bonus to the damage roll.

Two-Weapon Fighting
When you engage in Two-Weapon Fighting, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second Attack. If you have the extra attack feature, then it applies to off hand attacks that you make as well.

Unarmed Fighting
Your unarmed strikes can deal bludgeoning damage equal to your Superiority Die + your Strength modifier on a hit. If you aren't wielding any weapons or a shield when you make the attack roll you gain a +1 bonus to AC. At the start of each of your turns, you can deal 1d4 bludgeoning damage to one creature grappled by you.

Martial Archetype

Also at 1st level, you choose an archetype that you strive to emulate in your combat styles and techniques. Choose one of the detailed subclasses at the end of the class description. The archetype you choose grants you features at 1st level and again at 7th, 10th, 15th, and 18th level.

Martial Maneuvers

Finally at 1st level, you have begun to master unique techniques to enhance your martial skill, both on and off the field of battle.

Adaptive

Thanks to your intense training you've gained amazing adaptability to the world around you.
At 2nd level, you're walking speed is increased by 15 feet, you gain a swimming and a climbing speed of 30 feet, your jump distance is multiplied by a quarter of your level (rounded up), and you have advantage on Constitution saving throws to avoid Exhaustion.

Second Wind

Also at 2nd level, 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 twice your Constitution Modifier + your Fighter Level.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus. You regain 2 uses of this feature when you finish a short rest, and all uses when you finish a long rest.

Action Surge

Starting at 3rd level, you can push yourself beyond your normal limits for a moment. On your turn, you can take one additional action.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again. Starting at 13th level, you can use it twice before a rest, but only once on the same turn.

Know Your Enemy

Also at 3rd level, you can measure the skills of others in comparison to your own. As an action, choose a creature you can see within 60 feet. You learn if it is your equal, superior, or inferior in regards to two of the following attributes:

Once you learn something about a creature, you can't use this feature on that creature again until you finish a rest.
When you reach 10th level in this class, you can use this feature as either an action, bonus action, or reaction on your turn.

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.

Using the "optional" feats rule, you can forgo taking this feature to take a feat of your choice instead.

Extra Attack

At 5th level, you can attack twice instead of once, whenever you take the attack action. Moreover, you can cast one of your cantrips in place of one of those attacks if you know a cantrip that requires an action to cast.

The number of attacks increases to three when you reach 11th level in this class and to four when you reach 17th level in this class.

Indomitable

Also at 5th level, when you fail a saving throw, you can reroll the save and add your proficiency bonus on the reroll even if you already have proficiency in the saving throw. If you do so, you must use the new roll, and you can’t use this feature again until you finish a short or long rest.

You can use this feature twice between short or long rests starting at 11th level and three times between short or long rests starting at 17th level.

Advanced Prowess

At 9th level, your martial capabilities have advanced so far to the point of being supernatural. All attacks you make and damage you deal, counts as magical for the purposes of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks.

Additionally, you can add half your Proficiency Bonus (rounded down) to attack and damage rolls you make. However, if you have a magical weapon that provides a higher Attack and Damage Bonus than this feature, the weapon overrides this feature.

Fortitude

Also at 9th level, you can use your bonus action to end one effect on yourself that is causing you to be charmed, frightened, grappled, paralyzed, poisoned, restrained, or stunned.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus. You regain all uses of this feature when you finish a long rest. If you're out of uses you can instead expend a Superiority Die to use it again.

Relentless

At 13th level, when you roll initiative and have no Superiority Dice remaining, you regain a number of Superiority Die equal to your Strength, Constitution, or Dexterity Modifier (your choice).

Killer Instincts

At 20th level, your martial skills are pushed to the very limit of mortal might. When you activate this feature as a bonus action, for 1 minute you gain the following benefits:

• Once per turn, you can grant yourself advantage on one weapon attack.
• You have resistance to all damage.
• You have advantage on all saving throws.
• All your weapon damage rolls are doubled, including on a critical hit.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again. Unless you expend a Superiority Die to use it again.

Martial Archetype: Arcane Archer

An Arcane Archer studies a unique elven method of archery that weaves magic into attacks to produce supernatural effects. Arcane Archers are some of their most elite warriors among the elves. They stand watch over the fringes of elven domains, keeping a keen eye out for trespassers and using magic-infused arrows to defeat monsters and invaders before they can reach elven settlements. Over the centuries, the methods of these elf archers have been learned by members of other races who can also balance arcane aptitude with archery.

Arcane Shot Options

The Arcane Shot feature lets you choose options for it at certain levels. The options are presented here in alphabetical order. They are all magical effects, and each one is associated with one of the schools of magic. If an option requires a saving throw, your Arcane Shot save DC equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence or Wisdom modifier.

Banishing Arrow. You use abjuration magic to try to temporarily banish your target to a harmless location in the Feywild. The creature hit by the arrow takes 2d6 force damage + your fighter level, and must also succeed on a Charisma saving throw or be banished. While banished in this way, its speed is 0, and it is incapacitated. At the end of its next turn, the target reappears in the space it vacated or in the nearest unoccupied space if that space is occupied.

Beguiling Arrow. Your enchantment magic causes this arrow to temporarily beguile its target. The creature hit by the arrow takes an extra 2d6 psychic damage + your fighter level, and choose one of your allies within 30 feet of the target. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw, or it is charmed by the chosen ally until the start of your next turn. This effect ends early if the chosen ally attacks the charmed target, deals damage to it, or forces it to make a saving throw.

Bursting Arrow. You imbue your arrow with force energy drawn from the school of evocation. The arrow detonates after your attack. Immediately after the arrow hits the creature, the target and all other creatures within 10 feet of it take 2d6 force damage + your fighter level each.

Enfeebling Arrow. You weave necromantic magic into your arrow. The creature hit by the arrow takes an extra 2d6 necrotic damage + your fighter level. The target must also succeed on a Constitution saving throw, or the damage dealt by its weapon attacks is halved until the start of your next turn.

Grasping Arrow. When this arrow strikes its target, conjuration magic creates grasping, poisonous brambles, which wrap around the target. The creature hit by the arrow takes an extra 2d8 poison damage + your fighter level, its speed is reduced by 10 feet, and it takes 2d6 slashing damage the first time on each turn it moves 1 foot or more without teleporting. The target or any creature that can reach it can use its action to remove the brambles with a successful Strength (Athletics) check against your Arcane Shot save DC. Otherwise, the brambles last for 1 minute or until you use this option again.

Piercing Arrow. You use transmutation magic to give your arrow an ethereal quality. When you use this option, you don’t make an attack roll for the attack. Instead, the arrow fires forward in a line, which is 1 foot wide and 30 feet long, before disappearing. The arrow passes harmlessly through objects, ignoring cover. Each creature in that line must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes damage as if it were hit by the arrow, plus an extra 2d6 piercing damage + your fighter level. On a successful save, a target takes half as much damage.

Seeking Arrow. Using divination magic, you grant your arrow the ability to seek out your target, allowing the arrow to curve and twist its path in search of its prey. When you use this option, you don’t make an attack roll for the attack. Instead, choose one creature you have seen in the past minute. The arrow flies toward that creature, moving around corners if necessary and ignoring three-quarters cover and half cover. If the target is within the weapon’s range and there is a path large enough for the arrow to travel to the target, the target must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, it takes damage as if it were hit by the arrow, plus an extra 2d6 force damage + your fighter level, and you learn the target’s current location. On a successful save, the target takes half as much damage, and you don’t learn its location.

Shadow Arrow. You weave illusion magic into your arrow, causing it to occlude your foe’s vision with shadows. The creature hit by the arrow takes an extra 3d6 psychic damage + your fighter level, and it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or be unable to see anything farther than 5 feet away until the start of your next turn.

Martial Archetype: Banneret

A banneret is a knight who inspires greatness in others by committing brave deeds in battle. The mere presence of one in a hamlet is enough to cause some orcs and bandits to seek easier prey. A lone banneret is a skilled warrior, but a banneret leading a band of allies can transform even the most poorly equipped militia into a ferocious war band.

A banneret prefers to lead through deeds, not words. As a banneret spearheads an attack, their actions can awaken reserves of courage and conviction in allies that they never suspected they had.

Banneret serves as the generic name for the Purple Dragon Knight archetype if you use it in campaign settings other than the Forgotten Realms or to model warlords other than Purple Dragon Knights.

Martial Archetype: Brute

Brutes are of the fiercest warriors, who use devastating attacks and their own durability to overcome their enemies. They are often relentless and tenacious in their approach, attacking with savage ferocity. Some combine this physical might with tactical cunning. Others just hit things until those things stop hitting back.

Martial Archetype: Dual Wielder

Through dedicated training, you are able to fight equally well with both hands. Your off-hand weapon strikes harder, faster, and you are able to execute blindingly fast combos to wear down your opponents.
You overpower your enemies not by brute force, but through death by a thousand cuts.

Martial Archetype: 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.

Magical Swordsmen

Starting at 1st level, you can add your Intelligence modifier to your Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution saving throws. And when you make an Intelligence (Arcana) check, you can add your Superiority Die to the roll.

Weapon Bond

Also at 1st 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.

War Magic

Beginning at 7th level, you can cast cantrips that you know as a bonus action.

Additionally, you can choose to deal extra damage equal to your Intelligence Modifier. The extra damage that you deal can be Force, Psychic, or Thunder damage (choose before you make the attack roll).

Eldritch Strike

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

Arcane Charge

At 15th level, once per turn, you gain the ability to teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space you can see when you take the attack action. You can teleport before or after taking the attack action.

Improved War Magic

Starting at 18th level, upon taking the attack action, you can cast one of your spells that is 1st level or higher that takes one action to cast as a bonus action.

Martial Archetype: Gunslinger

Most warriors and combat specialists spend their years perfecting the classic arts of swordplay, archery, or pole arm tactics. Whether duelist or infantry, martial weapons were seemingly perfected long ago, and the true challenge is to master them.

However, some minds couldn’t stop with the innovation of the crossbow. Experimentation with alchemical components and rare metals have unlocked the secrets of controlled explosive force. The few who survive these trials of ingenuity may become the first to create, and deftly wield, the first firearms.

This archetype focuses on the ability to design, craft, and utilize powerful, yet dangerous ranged weapons. Through creative innovation and immaculate aim, you become a distant force of death on the battlefield. However, not being a perfect science, firearms carry an inherent instability that can occasionally leave you without a functional means of attack. This is the danger of new, untested technologies in a world where the arcane energies that rule the elements are ever present.

Should this path of powder, fire, and metal call to you, keep your wits about you, hold on to your convictions as a fighter, and let skill meet luck to guide your bullets to strike true.

Firearms

Trick Shots

Bullying Shot.
You can use the powerful blast and thundering sound of your firearm to shake the resolve of a creature. You can expend one grit point while making a Charisma (Intimidation) check to gain advantage on the roll.

Dazing Shot. When you make a firearm attack against a creature, you can expend one grit point to attempt to dizzy your opponent. On a hit, the creature suffers normal damage and must make a Constitution saving throw or suffer disadvantage on attacks until the end of their next turn.

Deadeye Shot.
When you make a firearm attack against a creature, you can expend one grit point to gain advantage on the attack roll.

Disarming Shot. When you make a firearm attack against a creature, you can expend one grit point to attempt to shoot an object from their hands. On a hit, the creature suffers normal damage and must succeed on a Strength saving throw or drop 1 held object of your choice and have that object be pushed 10 feet away from you.

Forceful Shot.
When you make a firearm attack against a creature, you can expend one grit point to attempt to trip them up and force them back. On a hit, the creature suffers normal damage and must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be pushed 15 feet away from you.

Piercing Shot.
When you make a firearm attack against a creature, you can expend one grit point to attempt to fire through multiple opponents. The initial attack gains a +1 to the firearm’s misfire score. On a hit, the creature suffers normal damage and you make an attack roll with disadvantage against every creature in a line directly behind the target within your first range increment. Only the initial attack can misfire.

Violent Shot.
When you make a firearm attack against a creature, you can expend one or more grit points to enhance the volatility of the attack. For each grit point expended, the attack gains a +2 to the firearm’s misfire score. If the attack hits, you can roll one additional weapon damage die per grit point spent when determining the damage.

Winging Shot.
When you make a firearm attack against a creature, you can expend one grit point to attempt to topple a moving target. On a hit, the creature suffers normal damage and must make a Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.

Martial Archetype: Psionic Knight

Awake to the psionic power within, a Psionic Knight is a fighter who augments their physical might with psi-infused weapon strikes, telekinetic lashes, and barriers of mental force. Many githyanki train to become such warriors, as do some of the most disciplined high elves. In the world of Eberron, many young kalashtar dream of becoming Psionic Knight.

As a Psionic Knight, you might have honed your psionic abilities through solo discipline, unlocked it under the tutelage of a master, or refined it at an academy dedicated to wielding the mind's power as both weapon and shield.

Psionic Powers

Astral Psionics.
Prerequisite: None
You can cast the Mage Hand cantrip, requiring no components, using your Psionics Ability for the Spellcasting. The hand is invisible when you cast the cantrip with this feature.

Additionally, You can cast the spells Jump and Misty Step, requiring no components, using your Psionics Ability for the spellcasting; Once you cast either spell with this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest, unless you expend a Psionic Energy Die to cast it again.

Protective Field.
Prerequisite: Fighter
When you or another creature you can see within 30 feet of you takes damage, you can use your reaction to expend one to three Psionic Energy Die, roll the die, and reduce the damage taken by the number rolled plus your Intelligence modifier (minimum reduction of 1), as you create a momentary shield of telekinetic force.

Psycho Strike.
Prerequisite: Fighter
You can propel your weapons with psionic force. Once on each of your turns, immediately after you hit a target within 60 feet of you with an attack and deal damage to it with a weapon, you can expend one to three Psionic Energy Die, rolling them and dealing force or psychic damage to the target equal to the number rolled.

Telekinetics.
Prerequisite: None
You can move an object or a creature with your mind. As an action, you target one loose object or one creature that is Large or smaller. If you can see the target and it is within 30 feet of you, you can move it up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space you can see. If your target is an enemy or hostile creature they must succeed on a Constitution saving throw.

Alternatively, if it is a Tiny object, you can move it to or from your hand. Either way, you can move the target horizontally, vertically, or both. Once you take this action, you can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest, unless you expend a Psionic Energy die to take it again.

Psycho Thrust.
Prerequisite: Psycho Strike
When you deal damage to a target with your Psycho Strike, you can force the target to make a Strength saving throw. If the save fails, you can knock the target prone or move it up to 10 x your Proficiency Bonus in feet in any direction horizontally.

Mind Reader.
Prerequisite: 5th level, Astral Psionics
You can expend one Psionic Energy Die to cast the spell Detect Thoughts, requiring no components, using your Psionics Ability for the spellcasting.

Phantom Bulwark.
Prerequisite: 5th level, Protective Field
As a bonus action, you can spend two Psionic Energy Die to choose a number of creatures including yourself, up to your intelligence modifier (minimum of one) that you can see within 30 feet of you. Each of the chosen creatures is protected by three-quarters for 1 minute or until you're incapacitated.

Levitation.
Prerequisite: 5th level, Telekinetics
As a bonus action, you can propel your body with your mind. You gain a hover speed equal to twice your walking speed for 1 hour. Once you take this action, you can't do so again until you finish a short or long rest, unless you expend a Psionic Energy die to take it again.

Mind Blast.
Prerequisite: 5th level, Mind Reader
As an action, you can spend two Psionic Energy Die to emit psychic energy in a 60-foot cone. Each enemy creature in that area must succeed on an Intelligence saving throw or take psychic damage equal to three rolls of your Psionic Energy Die and be stunned for 1 minute. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Silver Sword.
Prerequisites: 5th level, Psycho Thrust
As a bonus action, you can form pure psychic energy into a real shimmering magical silver blade. This Blade can be a Longsword or Greatsword. While you hold the sword, you can't be disarmed of it, you have advantage on Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws, and you have resistance to psychic damage.

Alternatively, you can graft psionic energy into a Sword of your choice to transform it into a magical silver blade with the above benefits.

Telekinetic Mastery.
Prerequisite: 11th level, Levitation
You can cast the Telekinesis spell, requiring no components, using your Psionics Ability for the spellcasting. On each of your turns while you concentrate on the spell, including the turn when you cast it, you can make one attack with a weapon as a bonus action.

Once you cast the spell with this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest, unless you expend a Psionic Energy die to cast it again.

Mind Strike.
Prerequisite: 11th level, Silver Sword
As a bonus action, you can spend two Psionic Energy Die to augment your strikes with psionic energy, making a melee spell attack with a melee weapon against one creature within 5 feet of you. If the attack hits, the target takes psychic damage equal to four rolls of your Psionic Energy Die and is stunned for 1 minute. The creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.

Martial Archetype: Rune Knight

Rune Knights enhance their martial prowess using the supernatural power of runes, an ancient practice that originated with giants. Rune cutters can be found among any family of giants, and you likely learned your methods first or second hand from such a mystical artisan. Whether you found the giant's work carved into a hill or cave, learned of the runes from a sage, or met the giant in person, you studied the giant's craft and learned how to apply magic runes to empower your equipment.

However, giants weren't the only ones to use runes, some celestials, mages, and artificers crafted their own runes and use them for their own devices.

Runes

Rune of Deceit. This rune emulates the deceptive magic used by some cloud giants. While wearing or carrying an object inscribed with this rune, you have advantage on Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) checks and Charisma (Deception) checks.

Active Power. When you or a creature you can see within 60 feet of you is hit by an attack roll, you can use your reaction to invoke the rune and choose a different creature within 30 feet of you, other than the attacker. The chosen creature becomes the target of the attack, using the same roll. This magic can transfer the attack's effects regardless of the attack's range.

Rune of Craftsmanship. This rune's magic channels the masterful craftsmanship of great smiths. While wearing or carrying an object inscribed with this rune, your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses your proficiency with a tool.

Active Power. When you hit a target with an attack using a weapon, you can invoke the rune to summon fiery shackles: the target takes an extra 2d12 fire damage, and it must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be restrained for 1 minute. While restrained by the shackles, the target takes 2d12 fire damage at the start of each of its turns. The target can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, banishing the shackles on a success.

Rune of Sturdiness. This rune's magic evokes the might of those who survive in the wintry wilderness, such as frost giants. While wearing or carrying an object inscribed with this rune, you have advantage on Wisdom (Animal Handling) checks and Charisma (Intimidation) checks.

Active Power. You can invoke the rune as a bonus action to increase your sturdiness. For 10 minutes, you gain a +3 bonus to all ability checks and saving throws that use Strength or Constitution.

Rune of Enchanting. This rune's magic channels the judiciousness associated with stone giants. While wearing or carrying an object inscribed with this rune, you have advantage on Wisdom (Insight) checks, and you have darkvision out to a range of 120 feet.

Active Power. When a creature you can see ends its turn within 30 feet of you, you can use your reaction to invoke the rune and force the creature to make a Wisdom saving throw. Unless the save succeeds, the creature is charmed by you for 1 minute. While charmed in this way, the creature has a speed of 0 and is incapacitated, descending into a dreamy stupor. The creature repeats the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success.

Rune of Resilience. This rune's magic bestows a resilience reminiscent of a hill giant. While wearing or carrying an object that bears this rune, you have advantage on saving throws against being diseased or poisoned, and you have resistance against poison damage.

Active Power. You can invoke the rune as a bonus action, gaining resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage for 1 minute.

Rune of Forsight. Using this rune, you can glimpse the future like a storm giant seer. While wearing or carrying an object inscribed with this rune, you have advantage on Intelligence (Arcana) and Intelligence (History) checks, and you can't be surprised as long as you aren't incapacitated.

Active Power. You can invoke the rune as a bonus action to enter a prophetic state for 1 minute or until you're incapacitated. Until the state ends, when you or another creature you can see within 60 feet of you makes an attack roll, a saving throw, or an ability check, you can use your reaction to cause the roll to have advantage or disadvantage.

Rune of Light. Using this rune, you can refract divine light similar to the celestials of the upper planes. While wearing or carrying an object inscribed with this rune, you shed light out to a radius of 15 feet around you, and dim light to an extra 15 feet beyond the light.

Active Power. As a bonus action, you can increase the runes power to shed sunlight out to a radius of 15 feet around you, and light to an extra 15 feet beyond the sunlight, for 1 minute. All creatures who enter the sunlight, aside from you or whoever is holding or wearing the item this rune is inscribed upon, takes 3d4 radiant damage, and is blinded for 1 round.

Rune of Power. This rune's magic channels the force of magic itself similar to that of a arcane spellcaster. While wearing or carrying an object that bears this rune, you learn two cantrips from the Artificer, Sorcerer, Warlock, or Wizard spell lists, and can change the cantrip upon completing a long rest.

Active Power. As a bonus action, you can cast a single 1st level spell of your choice from the Artificer, Sorcerer, Warlock, or Wizard spell list. Casting a different spell every time you activate this rune.

Rune of Inferno. This rune channels the unholy power of the lower planes, no different from Demons and Devils. While wearing or carrying an object that bears this rune, you have advantage on Charisma (Persuasion) and Wisdom (Insight) checks, and you can detect when a creature is telling a lie.

Active Power. As an action, you can invoke a deal with a creature that is neutral or allied to you. This deal gives you and the creature you've made a deal with, a bonus to all attack rolls, damage rolls, and saving throws equal to your Proficiency Bonus for 10 minutes. However, to maintain this deal, both you and the creature that you've made a deal with must remain within 30 feet of each other for the entire duration, otherwise the deal will be broken within 1 minute of being separated, and you both each take necrotic damage equal to half your fighter level (rounded up).

Rune of Clairvoyance. This rune's magic bestows a mental fortitude that is reminiscent of gnomes and fey folk. While wearing or carrying an object that bears this rune, you have advantage on all Intelligence, Wisdom , and Charisma saving throws.

Active Powers. As a reaction to you or an ally within 30 feet of you being affected by enchantment or illusion magic, you can dispel all enchantment and illusion effects from them, and they cannot be targeted by enchantment and illusion spells for 1 hour after this rune has been used on them.

Martial Archetype: Samurai

The Samurai is a fighter who draws on an implacable fighting spirit to overcome enemies. A samurai’s resolve is nearly unbreakable, and the enemies in a samurai’s path have two choices: yield or die fighting.

Martial Maneuvers

Below are the Maneuvers available to the fighter. If a Maneuver has a prerequisite, like a minimum Ability Score or level, you can learn it at the same time you meet the prerequisites.

Maneuvering Attack

When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend one superiority die to maneuver 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

Prerequisite: Str or Cha 15
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

Prerequisite: Str or Dex 15
As a reaction to being struck by an attack, you can expend one superiority die to have a +5 bonus to your AC, including against the triggering attack, until the start of your next turn.

Precision Attack

Prerequisite: Dex 17
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 maneuver before or after making the attack roll, but before any effects of the attack are applied.

Pushing Attack

Prerequisite: Str 17
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.

Quick Toss

As a bonus action, you can expend one superiority die and make a ranged attack with a weapon that has the thrown property. You can draw the weapon as part of making this attack. If you hit, add the superiority die to the weapon's damage roll.

Rally

Prerequisite: Cha 15
On your turn, you can use a bonus action and expend a number of superiority dice of your choice to bolster the resolve of a number of your companions up to your your Fighter Level. When you do so, choose friendly creatures who can see or hear you. Those creature gain temporary hit points equal to the superiority dice 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.

Striking Cloud

As an attack action, you can spend a superiority die to fill the air with spinning strikes in a cube 5 feet on each side, centered on a point you choose within 10 feet of you. A creature takes bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage (your choice) of three rolls of your superiority dice + your fighter level when it enters the area for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there. This cloud lasts for five rounds

Sweeping Attack

Prerequisite: Str 15
As an attack action, once per turn, you can expend a superiority die to cause the air to shutter with force as you swing your weapon with the greatest strength that you can muster, every creature within a 30-foot cone starting from you must make a Dexterity saving throw.

A target takes superiority die + twice your fighter level + your Strength modifier in thunder damage and falls prone on a failed save, or half as much damage and doesn't fall prone on a successful save.

Tactical Assessment

Prerequisite: Int or Wis 13
When you make an Intelligence (Investigation), an Intelligence (History), or a Wisdom (Insight) check, you can expend one superiority die and add the superiority die to the ability check.

Thundering Strike

Prerequisite: Str 15
When you land an attack roll, you can expend a superiority die to deal extra thunder damage equal to two rolls of your superiority dice.

Every creature within 10 feat of the target takes thunder damage equal to your Strength modifier.

Trip Attack

Prerequisite: Str 15
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.

Unbreakable

Prerequisites: Con 15
When you take damage that would reduce you to 0 hit points, even if that damage would kill you outright, you can use your reaction to expend a superiority die to fall to 1 hit point.

Redirect

Prerequisites: Dex 15
As a reaction when a creature you can see misses you with an attack, you can expend a superiority die and force it to repeat its attack against a target of your choice within 5 feet. On hit, it deals additional damage equal to your superiority die.

5th level Maneuvers

9th Level Maneuvers

13th Level Maneuvers

17th Level Maneuvers