Fighter

This Fighter article features subclass options for Erenel players in 5th Edition Dungeons and Dragons. The article will be updated over time as new subclasses are released! Some subclasses are only available for Gamingbrew Patrons!

Of all the adventurers in the worlds of D&D, the fighter is perhaps the greatest paradox. On the one hand, a singular feature of the class is that no two fighters ply their craft in quite the same way; their weapons, armor, and tactics differ across a vast spectrum. On the other hand, regardless of the tools and methods one uses, at the heart of every fighter's motivation lies the same basic truth: it is better to wound than to be wounded. Although some adventuring fighters risk their lives fighting for glory or treasure, others are primarily concerned with the welfare of others. They put more value on the well-being of the society, the village, or the group than on their own safety. Even if there's gold in the offing, the true reward for most fighters comes from sending enemies to their doom. 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.

Martial Archetype

At 3rd level, you choose an archetype from the list available that you strive to emulate in your combat styles and techniques. The archetype you choose grants you features at 3rd level and again at 7th, 10th, 15th, and 18th level.

Erenel 5E Subclasses

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Bastion

Rampart against the throes of battle, a Bastion seeks to protect others from harm above all else with the use of shardlight, light that has been crystallized into a nigh-unbreakable structure. As a Bastion, you might have learned to harness shardlight from training alongside the precepts of a church or religious order. However, whatever your origins may be, you are often considered a welcome addition to your allies in the vanguard.

Bastion 5E Statblock

Bastion

Fighter Martial Archtype

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Shardlight Protection

3rd-level Bastion feature As a bonus action, you can summon a shield made of crystallized light into one of your free hands. While holding it, this shield has similar properties to a mundane shield, except that it sheds bright light in a 20-foot radius and dim light for an additional 20 feet. The shield is weightless, you can’t be disarmed of that shield unless you are incapacitated, and you take no damage from magic missile. You can only have one instance of Shardlight Protection active at a time, which remains summoned until you use this feature again, if you dismiss it on your turn as a bonus action, or if you die.

Luminous Prison

3rd-level Bastion feature You can throw a shardlight shield to magically constrain an adversary. As an action, you can choose to throw a shield summoned by the Shardlight Protection feature at a hostile creature within 30 feet of you. The creature must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or be restrained until the end of your next turn. Your Luminous Prison save DC equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier.The shield returns to your hand at the end of the duration or on a success. 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 long rest.

Prismatic Defense

7th-level Bastion feature You learn how to use your shardlight to protect others and enhance your own defenses. While you are holding a shield summoned by Shardlight Protection, if you or an ally within 5 feet of you is hit with an attack, you can use your reaction to provide half cover to any creature of your choice that you can see within 5 feet of you until the end of your next turn. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier (a minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses of it when you finish a short rest or long rest.

Blinding Radiance

10th-level Bastion feature You can shatter your shardlight shield to blind and deter your foes. You can choose to dismiss a shield summoned by Shardlight Protection as an action, and each creature in a 15-foot cone from the shield must make a Constitution saving throw against your Blinding Radiance save DC or be blinded for a minute. Your Blinding Radiance save DC equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier. At the end of each of its turns, the target can make another Constitution saving throw. On a success, the creature is no longer blinded. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Improved Shardlight

15th-level Bastion feature Any shield summoned by Shardlight Protection grants a +2 bonus to Armor Class to the one wielding it. Additionally, the range of Prismatic Defense increases to 30 feet.

Crystalline Mastery

18th-level Bastion feature Your body and spirit have become completely attuned to shardlight. When you use your Blinding Radiance feature, the shield is no longer dismissed unless you choose to dismiss it. In addition, when you roll initiative and have no uses of Luminous Prison left, you regain one use of the feature.

Buccaneer

Charismatic sailors gifted with the sword; buccaneers prefer the freedom of a wide-open ocean. Living a dangerous life on the high seas, a buccaneer learns to act first and ask questions second. This swashbuckling approach blends into their martial training as they explore and “liberate” valuable cargo from other vessels.