Fighter

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Table: The Hyrulean Fighter

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

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. These are in addition to any from your Proficiency Points.

Armor: All armor and shields, including heavy shields

Weapons: All simple and martial weapons

Saving Throws: Strength, Constitution

Tools: Choose one from any artisan's tool, any 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. You do not gain any Proficiency Points from fighter if it is not your primary class.

Armor: Light armor, medium armor, and shields (excluding heavy shields)

Weapons: All simple and martial weapons

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 points. During character creation or during downtime, you can invest these points to become proficient.

• You can invest 1 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 points to become proficient in either any professional tool or any skill from Acrobatics, Animal Handling, History, Insight, Intimidation, Perception, and Survival.
• You can invest 3 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 up to 3 proficiency points' worth of items you gained with this feature.  Doing so lets you regain the proficiency points you invested.  You can then reassign these points into any other items in accordance with this feature, or save them to be assigned at later levels.

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 target strikes or to use other class features. Normally all of your stamina points are replenished when you complete a short or long rest.

Target Strike

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, you adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. You adopt an additional style at 13th level. At either level, choose one of the following options. You cannot gain the same fighting style multiple times.

Archery. You add a d4 bonus die to attack rolls you make with ranged weapons.

Armored Defense. While you are wearing armor, your Armor Class increases by an additional 1. This benefit does not apply if you are wielding a shield but no other armor.

Avenger. If a creature within your reach uses an attack or other potentially damaging action against a creature other than you, that creature provokes an opportunity attack from you. A creature hit by this opportunity attack has its speed reduced to 0 until the start of its next turn.

Brace. Other creatures provoke an attack of opportunity from you when they enter your reach.

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

Exploration. You gain proficiency in Survival. Climbing or swimming doesn't cost you extra movement.

Improvisation. You add your proficiency bonus to attack rolls with improvised weapons, but you are otherwise not considered proficient in such weapons. Your unarmed strike uses a d4 for damage. When you hit a creature with an improvised weapon or unarmed strike, you can use your bonus action to grapple that creature, shove that creature, or move up to 10 feet away from the creature without provoking its opportunity attack.

Mage Slaying. You are practiced in melee combat against spellcasters, granting several benefits:

• When a creature within 5 feet of you casts a spell, it provokes an opportunity attack from you.
• When you damage a creature concentrating on a spell, it has disadvantage on any saving throw to maintain concentration.
• You have advantage on saving throws against any spell cast by a creature within 5 feet of you.

Parry. If you are wielding a shield or a one-handed melee weapon with which you are proficient and another creature hits you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to add your proficiency bonus to your AC for that attack, potentially causing it to miss you.

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 in this way.

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 prowess. 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 3rd level and every three fighter levels thereafter as shown in the fighter table, 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.

• Increase two of your ability scores of your choice by 1, or one ability score by 2.  
• Master one or two extraordinary techniques.  If you choose to master only one technique, increase one of your ability scores by 1.
• Master a new fighting style.
• Gain a feat.

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

Extra Attack

Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Indomitable

Beginning at 8th level, you can re-roll a saving throw you fail. If you do so, you must use the new roll, and you can't use this feature again until you finish a long rest.

You can use this feature twice between long rests starting at 14th level and three times between long rests starting at 20th level.

Action Surge

Starting at 20th 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.

Great Strikes

Starting from 17th level, your target strikes can become devastatingly powerful.  When you make a target strike, you can choose to take a -5 penalty to the attack roll.  If you do so and the attack hits, it deals +10 damage.

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.

Techniques

Techniques are special actions you can use in combat by drawing on your reserves of stamina. You can use your Improvement to learn two fighter techniques of extraordinary tier. A tunic specializes in employing a wide range of fighter techniques, and some other subclasses can master a few techniques of their own. 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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