Fighter

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Table: The Hyrulean Fighter

Level	Proficiency Bonus	Features
1st	+2	Hearts, Proficiencies, Proficiency Points, Stamina Gauge, Fighting Style
2nd	+2	Subclass
3rd	+2	Subclass feature
4th	+2	Improvement
5th	+3	Extra Attack
6th	+3	Dashing Run, Improvement
7th	+3	Subclass feature
8th	+3	Improvement
9th	+4	Indomitable (one use)
10th	+4	Fighting Style (extra)
11th	+4	Subclass feature
12th	+4	Improvement
13th	+5	Indomitable (two uses)
14th	+5	Subclass feature
15th	+5	Relentless
16th	+5	Improvement
17th	+6	Subclass feature, Indomitable (three uses)
18th	+6	Champion
19th	+6	Improvement, Stamina Wheel
20th	+6	Subclass feature

Starting equipment

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Hearts

Each level you gain in this class grants you a Heart Container (or a "Hit Die"), which is a d10. Heart Containers are used primarily during short rests to recover heart points.

If your first class level is gained as a fighter, your maximum heart points increases by 10 + your Constitution modifier.

Anytime you otherwise gain a level in this class, you roll d10 (or take the median of 6), then add your Constitution modifier to that number. Your maximimum heart points increases by an amount equal to the result.

If your Constitution modifier later increases, your maximum heart points will retroactively increase.

Proficiencies

If your first class level is gained as a fighter, you have proficiency with the following.

• All simple and martial weapons
• All armor and shields, including heavy shields
• Strength and Constitution saving throws
• Any one artisan's tool, any one musical instrument, or any one vehicle

Multiclass Proficiencies

If you gain a level in fighter as a secondary class (see multiclassing), you instead gain proficiency with the following.

• All simple and martial weapons
• Light armor, medium armor, and shields (excluding heavy shields)

Proficiency Points

If your first class level is gained as a fighter, you have a number of proficiency points equal to 7 + your Intelligence modifier. If your Intelligence modifier permanently increases, so too do your number of proficiency points. During character creation or during downtime, you can invest proficiency points to gain proficiencies.

• You can invest 1 proficiency point to become proficient with the Athletics skill, any artisan's tool, any musical instrument, water vehicles, land vehicles, or any language.
• You can invest 2 proficiency points to become proficient in any professional tool or any skill from Acrobatics, Animal Handling, History, Insight, Intimidation, Perception, and Survival.
• You can invest 3 proficiency points to become proficient in any other skill.

This feature assumes you do not have a background. If you do have a background, your number of proficiency points is reduced by 6, to a minimum of 0.

Retraining

Heroes don't always retain their skills forever. Sometimes old methods are forgotten in favor of new lessons. Each time you gain a level in any class, you can forget one proficiency you gained with this feature to regain the proficiency points you invested. You can then reassign these points into new proficiencies in accordance with this feature.

If you multiclass, you can only retrain proficiency points with the class in which you gained your first level.

Stamina Gauge

You gain a number of stamina points equal to 2 + your Constitution modifier. If your Constitution modifier later increases, so too does your number of stamina points. Each level you gain in this class after the first, you gain 2 more stamina points.

You can use your stamina points to perform called shots or to use other class features. Normally all of your stamina points are replenished when you complete a short or long rest.

Called Shot

Just before making an attack roll with a weapon or an unarmed strike, you can make a target strike either by expending 2 stamina points, or by taking disadvantage on the attack roll. You cannot make a target strike if the attack roll would have disadvantage anyway, nor if any effect imposes a -5 penalty to the attack roll.

A target strike generally aims for wherever the target is most vulnerable, such as gaps in a warrior's armor, or the exposed eye of a huge monster. This kind of target strike maximizes the damage dice rolled on a hit (e.g., treat 1d8 as simply 8), including any extra dice rolled as part of a critical hit or from other sources. Your narrator may enable alternate or additional effects for a target strike.

Fighting Style

At 1st level and 10th level, you adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. At each level, choose one of the following options. You cannot gain the same fighting style multiple times.

Archery. You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls you make with ranged weapons.

Courage. You have advantage on saving throws against being charmed or frightened.

Defense. While you are wearing armor, your Armor Class increases by an additional 1.

Deflection. If you are wielding any shield when you are hit with a ranged weapon attack, you can use your reaction to reduce that attack's damage by 1d6 + your Dexterity modifier. If this reduces the attack's damage to 0, it misses you.

Endurance. If you would be reduced to 0 heart points, you are instead reduced to 1 heart points. Once you use this feature, you must finish a long rest before you can use it again.

Exploration. You gain a climb speed and a swim speed, each equal to your base walking speed. You must have at least one hand unoccupied to use either speed.

Power Beam. You can use your action to cast power beam using Strength as your spellcasting ability. When you use your action to Attack and have full heart points, you can use your bonus action to cast power beam.

Resilience. Gain proficiency with one saving throw of your choice.

Unarmored Defense. While you are not wearing armor, your Armor Class is never lower than 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Constitution modifier. You can add the benefit of a shield to this Armor Class.

Fighter Subclass

At 2nd level, you choose a subclass that you strive to emulate in your combat styles and techniques. The subclass you choose grants you features at 2nd level and again at 7th, 11th, 14th, 17th, and 20th level.

Each subclass below is covered in full detail on its own, separate page.

• A brute specializes in simple, brunt force. You hit hard and often.
• A darknut specializes in stalwart, heavily-armored defense. Your guard is virtually impenetrable.
• A spellsword mixes the study of magic with the art of war. You cast a variety of spells, from fiery blasts to restorative magic.
• A tunic specializes in combat versatility. You employ a wide range of useful battle techniques.

Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 6th, 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, your fighting capabilities evolve. You can forget one fighting style you know and replace it with a new one. If you have learned any fighter techniques, you can forget one of them and replace it with a fighter technique of the same tier.

At these levels, you also gain one of the following improvements of your choice:

• Increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or two ability scores by 1 each.
• Gain a feat.
• Master two extraordinary techniques from the fighter technique list.
• Adopt an additional Fighting Style. Increase your Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution by 1.

This feature cannot increase any ability score above 20 unless you have a feature that increases your ability score maximum.

Dashing Run

At 6th level, you learn to push your surplus of stamina into quicker movement. You can expend 2 stamina points at any time during your turn to double your remaining speed for the turn as if you had taken the Dash action.

Stamina Wheel

By 19th level, your endurance is unending—like a wheel, you never cease rolling once you start. You recover 1 stamina point at the start of each of your turns.

In other words, you recover 10 stamina points every minute, and need not rest to recover stamina points.

This feature can't replenish stamina points which won't recover until the end of a long rest, such as those used to cast spells.

Fighter Techniques

Techniques are special actions you can use in combat by drawing on your reserves of stamina. A tunic specializes in employing a wide range of fighter techniques, and some other subclasses can master a few techniques of their own. You can use your Improvement to learn two fighter techniques of extraordinary tier. Techniques have three tiers: extraordinary, fantastical, and legendary. Each tier of technique is generally more powerful than the last, but also usually draws on greater amounts of stamina.

You can use a technique you have learned by expending the amount of stamina points listed for the relevant technique. Most techniques specify when they can be used: action, reaction, bonus action, or attack. A technique that is an "attack" can be made in place of one weapon attack you would be able to make, such as part of your Extra Attack or as your opportunity attack. You can use multiple techniques in the same turn, but cannot use two techniques simultaneously—such as using both Back Slice and Rock Breaker on a single opportunity attack.

Technique	Tier	SP	Time	Effect
Back Slice	extraordinary	1	attack	Your attack severs weak points in the target's armor. On a hit against an armored creature, the target’s armor (excluding natural armor or magic armor) suffers a cumulative -1 penalty. If the creature's Armor Class is reduced to 10 (or 10 + Dexterity modifier), the armor is destroyed. Your attack still inflicts damage as normal.
Rock Breaker	extraordinary	1	attack	Your attack deals magical force damage, and deals double damage to objects and structures.
Withdraw	extraordinary	2	bonus action	You deftly ward off incoming attacks. You cannot be targeted by opportunity attacks until the start of your next turn.
Stance of Byrna	extraordinary	3	action	You enter a supremely defensive stance until the start of your next turn. Until then, all attack rolls against you have disadvantage; you have resistance to all damage other than psychic; and you have advantage on all saving throws using Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution.
Hawk's Eye	fantastical	4	bonus action	If you make a ranged weapon attack or a Dexterity (Perception) check before the start of your next turn, you gain a +4 bonus on the roll.
Reflex	fantastical	5	reaction	Immediately before you make a Dexterity saving throw, you can use your reaction to push your reflexes above your normal limits, granting advantage on this saving throw.
Will	fantastical	6	reaction	Immediately before you make a Wisdom saving throw, you can use your reaction to draw on reserves of willpower, granting advantage on this saving throw.
Triforce Slash	legendary	17	action	You strike with such speed and force it seems like you are glowing with the Golden Power itself. Make one melee weapon attack against any creature or object as if your weapon had a reach of 30 feet. On a hit, you teleport to a space adjacent to that creature. Instead of your weapon's normal damage, you roll your attack's damage eight times and sum the damage against the target. (For example, if you are attacking with a shortsword and you have a Dexterity score of 14, your attack would deal 8d6+16 piercing damage.) This damage ignores any damage resistance or immunity. Once you hit with this technique, you must complete a long rest before you can use it again.

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