Fighter Subclasses

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Gladiator

Gladiators battle for the entertainment of raucous crowds. Some gladiators are brutal pit fighters who treat each match as a life-or-death struggle, while others are professional duelists who command huge fees but rarely fight to the death.

Arena Expert

3rd-level Gladiator feature


You gain proficiency in one of the following skills of your choice: Acrobatics, Animal Handling, Insight, Intimidation, or Performance.

Fight to Win

3rd-level Gladiator feature


You have learned to fight up close and personal, finding any opportunity to strike. Once on each of your turns, you can attempt to grapple or shove a creature (no action required).

Spectacle Fighter

7th-level Gladiator feature


You have mastered the use of brawn to awe spectators and to intimidate your foes. Whenever you make a Charisma (Intimidation) or Charisma (Performance) check, you gain a bonus to the check equal to your Strength modifier.

In addition, you gain advantage on saving throws against being frightened.

You're Next

10th-level Gladiator feature


You can make an example out of your victims in order to demoralize your enemies. When you make a melee weapon attack against a creature, if you score a critical hit or reduce the creature to 0 hit points, you can force each creature of your choice within 30 feet of the victim to make a Wisdom saving throw (DC 8 + your Charisma modifer + your proficiency bonus). On a failed save, a creature is frightened of you 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.

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

Cull the Weak

15-level Gladiator feature


You are immune to being frightened, and you have advantage on attack rolls against creatures that are frightened.

Arena Champion

18th-level Gladiator feature


You can grapple and shove creatures that are no more than two sizes larger than you.

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Juggernaut

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

Adrenaline Rush

3rd-level Juggernaut feature


When you use your Action Surge or Second Wind feature, you experience a surge of energy until the end of your next turn. For the duration, your speed is doubled, your movement is unaffected by difficult terrain, spells and other magical effects can't reduce your speed, and you have advantage on all Strength and Dexterity checks.

Continue Forward

7th-level Juggernaut feature


If you are grappled by one or more creatures that are no more than one size larger than you, your speed is halved, rather than reduced to 0, and the creatures can't forcibly drag or carry you. Instead, you drag these creatures along with you when you move.

Unyielding

7th-level Juggernaut feature


When you are subjected to an effect that would move you, knock you prone, or both, you can use your reaction to be neither moved nor knocked prone.

Brutish Durability

10th-level Juggernaut feature


Your toughness allows you to shrug off assaults that would devastate others.

Whenever you make a saving throw, roll 1d6 and add the die to your saving throw total. If applying this bonus to a death saving throw increases the total to 20 or higher, you gain the benefits of rolling a 20 on the d20.

Indestructible

15th-level Juggernaut feature


You can withstand even the most debilitating effects, such as a green dragon's poisonous breath or a circle of death spell. When you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Constitution saving throw to take only half damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail.

Unstoppable

18th-level Juggernaut feature


When you use your Adrenaline Rush feature, you gain the following additional benefits for the duration: you have advantage on all saving throws, and you have resistance to one damage type of your choice.

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Banneret

A banneret inspires greatness in others by committing brave deeds in battle. 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, the banneret's actions can awaken reserves of courage and conviction in allies that they never suspected they had.

Champion and Purple Dragon Knight

This subclass combines the Champion and Purple Dragon Knight martial archetypes into a single player option, replacing both of them at once.

Improved Critical

3rd-level Banneret feature


Your weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20 on the d20.

Rallying Cry

3rd-level Banneret feature


You know how to inspire your allies to fight on past their injuries.

When you use your Second Wind feature, you can choose up to three allies within 60 feet of you. Each ally regains hit points equal to your fighter level, provided that the creature can see or hear you.

Graceful Leader

7th-level Banneret feature


You gain proficiency in one of the following skills of your choice: Animal Handling, Insight, Intimidation, Performance, Persuasion, or Survival.

Your strong willpower also causes you to gain proficiency in Wisdom saving throws. If you already have this proficiency, you instead gain proficiency in Intelligence or Charisma saving throws (your choice).

Additional Fighting Style

10th-level Banneret feature


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

Inspiring Surge

10th-level Banneret feature


When you use your Action Surge feature, you can choose one creature within 60 feet of you that is allied with you. That creature can make one melee or ranged weapon attack with its reaction, provided that it can see or hear you.

Starting at 18th level, you can choose two allies within 60 feet of you, rather than one.

Bulwark

15th-level Banneret feature


You can extend the benefit of your Indomitable feature to an ally. When an ally within 60 feet of you fails a saving throw, you can use your reaction and expend one use of Indomitable to allow the ally to reroll its saving throw.

Superior Critical

15th-level Banneret feature


Your weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 18-20 on the d20.

Survivor

18th-level Banneret feature


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 no more than half of your hit points left. You don't gain this benefit if you have 0 hit points.

Dragoon

The dragoon is a master of both ranged and mounted combat. An excellent sniper and eagle-eyed scout, this fighter is a perilous foe who combines extraordinary marksmanship with the superior mobility of a mount.

Bonus Proficiency

3rd-level Dragoon feature


You gain proficiency in one of the following skills of your choice: Animal Handling, Insight, Investigation, Persuasion, or Survival.

Born to the Saddle

3rd-level Dragoon feature


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.

Skirmisher

3rd-level Dragoon feature


You are difficult to pin down during a fight. You can move up to half your speed as a reaction when an enemy ends its turn within 5 feet of you. This movement doesn't provoke opportunity attacks. If you are mounted, you can use your reaction to allow the mount to move up to half its speeed instead.

Careful Eyes

7th-level Dragoon feature


You excel at picking out hidden enemies and other threats. You can take the Search action as a bonus action.

Rider's Intuition

7th-level Dragoon feature


While you are mounted and aren't incapacitated, your mount gains a bonus to saving throws equal to your proficiency bonus.

Crippling Shot

10th-level Dragoon feature


Your skill as a marksman allows you to land shots that debilitate your foes. Once per turn when you hit a creature with a ranged weapon attack, you can choose to cripple the creature until the end of your next turn. While crippled, the creature can't take reactions and has its speed reduced by 10 feet.

Evasion

15th-level Dragoon feature


You can nimbly dodge out of the way of certain area effects, such as a red dragon's fiery breath or a lightning bolt spell. When you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail.

Your mount also gains this benefit while you aren't incapacitated.

Volley

18th-level Dragoon feature


Starting at 18th level, you can use your action to make a ranged attack against any number of creatures within 20 feet of a point you can see within your weapon's range. You must have ammunition for each target, as normal, and you make a separate attack roll for each target.

You can apply your Crippling Shot to each creature you hit with this action.

Monster Hunter

As a Monster Hunter fighter, you are an expert at defeating supernatural threats. Typically mentored by an older, experienced Monster Hunter, you learn to overcome a variety of unnatural defenses and attacks, including those of undead, lycanthropes, and other creatures of horror.

Monster Slayer

3rd-level Monster Hunter feature


Whenever you hit a weapon attack with advantage against a creature, you can cause the weapon to deal twice as much damage. This doesn't double any damage from an additional source, such as the Divine Smite paladin feature, the Sneak Attack rogue feature, or the Great Weapon Master and Sharpshooter feats. If this attack was made against an aberration, a fey, a fiend, or an undead, the target's speed is also reduced to 0 until the end of your next turn.

You have three uses of this ability, and you regain all expended uses of it when you finish a short or long rest.

Supernatural Expert

3rd-level Monster Hunter feature


You gain proficiency in two of the following skills of your choice: Arcana, History, Insight, Investigation, Nature, Perception, Religion, or Survival. Your proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you make that uses either of those proficiencies.

In addition, you gain the ability to speak one of the following languages of your choice: Abyssal, Celestial, Deep Speech, Infernal, or Sylvan.

Hunter's Mysticism

7th-level Monster Hunter feature


Your study of the supernatural gives you a limited ability to use magic. You can cast detect magic as a ritual. You can cast protection from evil and good, but you cannot cast it again with this feature until you finish a long rest. Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for these spells.

Supernatural Assault

7th-level Monster Hunter feature


The weapon attacks you make against aberrations, fey, fiends, and undead count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Cripple Monster

10th-level Monster Hunter feature


When you use your Monster Slayer feature on a creature, the target also suffers disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks until the end of your next turn. Additionally, if the attack causes the target to make a Constitution saving throw to maintain concentration, it has disadvantage on that save.

Hunter's Resilience

15th-level Monster Hunter feature


You gain proficiency in Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma saving throws. When you use your Indomitable feature to reroll one of those saving throws, you have advantage on saving throws of the same type until the end of your next turn.

Final Hour

18th-level Monster Hunter feature


When you roll initiative and have no uses of Monster Slayer remaining, you regain one use of it. Additionally, when you use Monster Slayer to deal damage to an aberration, fey, fiend, or undead, the target also suffers disadvantage on all saving throws until the end of your next turn.

Tactician

Tacticians are accomplished and competent battle leaders. They stand on the front line issuing commands and bolstering their allies while leading the battle with weapon in hand. Tacticians know how to rally a team to win a fight.

Warlord Class

This subclass is an old attempt of mine to invoke the theme of a Warlord in 5e, and no longer receives any content updates or changes. Consider using my newer Warlord Class instead.

Tactical Maneuver

3rd-level Tactician feature


Your tactical acumen allows you to provide direction to your allies that can tilt a battle in your favor. As a bonus action, you can choose one ally within 60 feet of you who can hear or see you. That ally can use its reaction to move up to half its speed.

Tactical Command

3rd-level Tactician feature


Your tactical cunning allows you to seize the moment in battle.

Tactics. You learn two tactics of your choice, which are listed under "Tactics" below. You gain an additional tactic at 7th and 15th level.

Uses. When you use your Tactical Maneuver feature, you can choose to apply one of your known tactics to the maneuver, granting the targeted ally an additional bonus. When you do so, the movement granted to the targeted ally does not provoke opportunity attacks.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses of it when you finish a short or long rest.

Commander's Sight

7th-level Tactician feature


You learn to view your surroundings in a way that grants you a better understanding of the battle as a whole. The range of your Tactical Maneuver increases to 120 feet.

Lead from the Front

7th-level Tactician feature


Your battle experience has taught you how to act swiftly in dangerous situations. You can give yourself a bonus to your initiative rolls equal to your Intelligence modifier.

Inspiring Surge

10th-level Tactician feature


When you use your Action Surge feature, you can choose one ally within 120 feet of you who can hear or see you. That creature can make one weapon attack with its reaction, provided that it can see or hear you.

Starting at 15th level, you can choose two allies within 120 feet of you, rather than one.

Thirst for Battle

15th-level Tactician feature


When you roll initiative and have no uses of Tactical Command left, you regain one use.

Perfect Coordination

18th-level Tactician feature


You gain the ability to unleash a devastating combination of your allies' abilities. As an action, select up to five allies within 120 feet of you who can see or hear you. Each ally can use its reaction to immediately move up to its speed without provoking opportunity attacks, and to take the Attack (one weapon attack, shove, or grapple only), Cast a Spell (one cantrip only), Dodge, Hide, Search, or Use an Object action.

Once you use this ability, you cannot use it again until you complete a long rest.

Tactics

The tactics are presented in alphabetical order. Unless stated otherwise, any movement referenced by a tactic is the movement granted by your Tactical Maneuver feature.

Advance/Retreat. The targeted ally can move up to its speed, rather than only half its speed.

Charge. The targeted ally can attempt to shove one creature of your choice. This shove can be attempted at any point before, during, or after the move.

Cover That Flank. Attack rolls against the targeted ally have disadvantage until the start of your next turn.

Cut Them Down. The targeted ally has advantage on the next attack it makes against a creature of your choice that you can see before the start of your next turn.

Defend Yourself. The targeted ally gains temporary hit points equal to your fighter level + your Intelligence modifier (minimum of 1) for 1 minute.

Press Onwards. If the targeted ally is charmed or frightened, those conditions end on the creature.

Subdue Them. The targeted ally can attempt to grapple one creature of your choice. This grapple can be attempted at any point before, during, or after the move.