Fighting Initiate Feat

Prerequisite: Proficiency with a martial weapon

• Signature Style. Your martial training has helped you develop a particular style of fighting. As a result, you learn one Fighting Style option of your choice from the fighter class (see the list below). If you already have a style, the one you choose must be different.
• Disciplined Expenditure. Whenever you reach a level that grants the Ability Score Improvement feature, you can replace this feat's fighting style with another one from the fighter class that you don't have.

Source: TCE (modified)

List of Fighting Styles

• Archery. You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls you make with ranged weapons.
• Blind Fighting. You have blindsight with a range of 10 feet. Within that range, you can effectively see anything that isn't behind total cover, even if you're blinded or in darkness. Moreover, you can see an invisible creature within that range, unless the creature successfully hides from you.
• Defense. While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.
• Dueling. When you are wielding one melee weapon without the two-handed property and no other weapons, you gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls with that weapon.
• Great Weapon Fighting. When you miss an attack roll with a heavy two-handed melee weapon against a target within reach, you deal damage to the target equal to your Strength modifier.
• Protection. When you or a creature you can see (including yourself) within 5 feet of you is hit by an attack, you can use your reaction to block 1d10 damage from the attack. If blocking damage for a creature other than yourself, you add your Proficiency Bonus to the damage blocked.
• Superior Technique. You learn one maneuver of your choice from among those available to the Battle Master archetype. If a maneuver you use requires your target to make a saving throw to resist the maneuver's effects, the saving throw DC equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice.)
• You gain one superiority die, which is a d6 (this die is added to any superiority dice you have from another source). This die is used to fuel your maneuvers. A superiority die is expended when you use it. You regain your expended superiority dice when you finish a short or long rest.
• Thrown Weapon Fighting. When you hit with a ranged attack using a thrown weapon, you gain a +2 bonus to the damage roll.
• Two-Weapon Fighting. When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second attack.
• Unarmed Fighting. Your unarmed strikes can deal bludgeoning damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier on a hit. If you aren't wielding any weapons or a shield when you make the attack roll, the d6 becomes a d8.

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