Swashbuckler Archetype

As a Swashbuckler, you focus on the art of the blade, bringing speed, elegance, and charm to your combat style—topped off with an exquisite flourish of panache. You excel in single combat, and your methods make a duel look like a flamboyant performance.

3rd Level: Fancy Footwork

You’ve learned how to land a strike and then slip away without reprisal. If you make a melee attack against a creature during your turn, that creature can’t make Opportunity Attacks against you for the rest of that turn.

3rd Level: Rakish Audacity

When you roll Initiative, you can give yourself a bonus to the roll equal to your Charisma modifier.

You also gain an additional way to use your Sneak Attack; you don’t need Advantage on the attack roll to use your Sneak Attack against a creature if you are within 5 feet of it, no other creatures are within 5 feet of you, and you don’t have Disadvantage on the attack roll. All the other rules for Sneak Attack still apply to you.

6th Level: Panache

Your charm becomes extraordinarily beguiling. As an action, you can make a Charisma (Persuasion) check contested by a creature's Wisdom (Insight) check. The creature must be able to hear you, and the two of you must share a language.

If you succeed on the check and the creature is hostile to you, it has Disadvantage on attack rolls against targets other than you and can't make Opportunity Attacks against targets other than you. This effect lasts for 1 minute, until one of your allies attacks the target or affects it with a spell, or until you and the target are more than 60 feet apart.

If you succeed on the check and the creature isn't hostile to you, it has the Charmed condition for 1 minute. While Charmed, it regards you as a friendly acquaintance. This effect ends immediately if you or your allies do anything harmful to it.

10th Level: Elegant Maneuver

You can use a Bonus Action on your turn to gain Advantage on the next Dexterity (Acrobatics) or Strength (Athletics) check you make during the same turn.

14th Level: Master Duelist

Immediately after you use your Sneak Attack, you can make another attack against the same target, provided you are within 5 feet of it and no other creatures are within 5 feet of you.