Reckless Stance. Your critical range is increased by your proficiency modifier (at level 3, your critical range would go from 19-20 to 17-20), your AC is reduced by twice your proficiency modifier.

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Starting Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) Scale Mail, or (b) leather armor, longbow, and 20 arrows
• (a) a martial weapon and a shield or (b) two martial melee weapons
• (a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) two simple light melee weapons
• (a) a dungeoneer’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack

 

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Subclass Options

Martial Archetypes

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

Champion

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The archetypal Champion focuses on the development of raw physical power and technique honed to deadly perfection.

Fighter Level	Feature
3rd	Improved Critical
7th	Fighting Style Expertise
10th	Additional Fighting Style
15th	Fighting Style Mastery
18th	Survivor

Improved Critical

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

Fighting Style Expertise

At 7th level, you learn how to maximize your chosen fighting style, you gain additional bonuses based on the fighting style you chose at 1st level.

Archery

When you take the attack action while wielding a ranged weapon, you can forgo the attack bonus granted by this fighting style to instead make one additional attack with that ranged weapon.

Blind Fighting

The range of your blindsight increases to 20 feet.

Defense

When you take the dodge action, you have advantage on opportunity attacks until the beginning of your next turn.

Dueling

As a bonus action, you can mark a creature you can see; you have advantage against that creature until the beginning of your next turn, as long as you're wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no other weapons.

Great Weapon Fighting

When you roll a maximum result on a damage die for an attack you make with a melee weapon that you are wielding with two hands, you can roll that die again and add the result to the damage.

Interception

When you use this feature to reduce damage, you can also make an opposed strength (athletics) check against the attacker; if you win, the attacker is knocked prone.

Protection

When you use your reaction to impose disadvantage, you can attempt to knock your opponent off balance. If the attack misses, that ally can make one attack against the target using a reaction.

Superior Technique

You gain one more superiority die and learn one more maneuver of your choice.

Thrown Weapon Fighting

As a bonus action, you can increase the range of your thrown weapon attacks. Until the end of your turn, your thrown weapon attacks have double range.

Two-Weapon Fighting

If you hit a creature with both weapons, you can make another attack with the weapon you attacked with using your bonus action.

Unarmed Fighting

When you make an unarmed attack against an opponent, you can attempt to grapple that creature as part of the same action.  

Additional Fighting Style

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

Fighting Style Mastery

Your skill with your chosen specific fighting styles becomes legendary.

Archery

Once per turn, if you have advantage on a ranged weapon attack roll against a creature, you can forgo the advantage to fire two extra pieces of ammunition using the same attack roll. If the attack hits, roll one of the weapon's damage dice 2 additional times, add the results to the damage total.

Blind Fighting

The range of your blindsight is increased to 30 feet, and you have truesight out to 5 feet.

Defense

If you would be hit by an attack, you can use your reaction to make your opponent reroll that attack.

Dueling

Whenever you roll a 20 when making an attack with a weapon you're wielding in one hand and no other weapons, you regain a use of your Action Surge feature.

Great Weapon Fighting

You are able to cleave through foes, when you make an attack using a versatile or heavy weapon with two hands, you can make an extra attack against another creature that is adjacent to the first and within reach of your weapon.

Interception

If you succeed in knocking an opponent prone with your interception feature, that creature also has disadvantage on saving throws until the end of your next turn.

Protection

When your ally hits an opponent due to this feature, you both gain temporary hit points equal to the damage dealt.

Superior Technique

Your superiority dice become d8s and you learn one additional maneuver of your choice.

Thrown Weapon Fighting

When you use the attack action using a thrown weapon, you can forgo an attack to use your weapon to pin your target to the ground; the creature makes a Strength (Athletics) check against the attack roll to avoid being pinned. The creature can use an action to free itself.

Two-Weapon Fighting

When you hit a creature with both weapons, that creature's first attack against you has disadvantage.

Unarmed Fighting

You can add your Proficiency bonus to the damage you deal against grappled creatures.  

Survivor

At 18th level, you attain the pinnacle of resilience in battle. At the start of each of your turns, you regain hit points equal to 5 + your Constitution modifier if you have no more than half of your hit points left. You don’t gain this benefit if you have 0 hit points.  

Battle Master

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

Combat Superiority

When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you learn maneuvers that are fueled by special dice called superiority dice.

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