Stance Fighter 1.2.

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felt dissatisfied with default fighting styles and

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I felt that the Weapon Mastery feature from the
UA 5 was poorly implemented and couldn’t work
in its current form, but there were bits and pieces
that could be salvaged from it.
Long has it been said that the components of
the Battle Master subclass should be
implemented into the base fighter class itself, and I
agree with this assessment, but to make it less
predictable I tied the tactics into what Stance you are
using. This means that you are incentivised to switch
between stances more during combat depending on
what you would like to do, and they should all be
situationally very strong. And because you cannot learn
all of the stances even at max level, fighters will tend to
feel noticeably more different from one another than
they normally do.
While it needs additional testing, I think that the
Stance Fighter as detailed here is currently quite
dynamic and you can have a lot of fun with it. I believe
that the subclasses included here are still fully
compatible with the UA5 fighter as long as you
manually implement the Tactical Die progression into
the text (or just replace any mention of the tactical die
with d10s).
Contents
pg.01 – Introduction
pg.02 – Stance Fighter Table
pg.03 – Class Features
pg.06 – The Adventurer
pg.07 – The Mist’s Chosen
pg.09 – The Samurai
pg.10 – The Voice of Thunder
pg.12 – The Warmaster
pg.13 – List of Tactics
pg.15 – Multiclassing
pg.16 – Adapting Other Subclasses
pg.12 – OGL Licence
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CLASS | THE STANCE FIGHTER 1

 The Stance Fighter
Proficiency Stances Tactical Tactical Second
Level Bonus Features Known Points Die Wind
1st +2 Combat Tactics, Fighting Stance, Second Wind 1 2 1d6 1
2nd +2 Action Surge (1/short) 2 2 1d6 2
3rd +2 Martial Archetype Subclass 2 3 1d6 2
4th +2 Feat 2 3 1d6 2
5th +3 Extra Attack (1) 3 3 1d8 3
6th +3 Subclass Feature 3 4 1d8 3
7th +3 Feat 3 4 1d8 3
8th +3 Feat 3 4 1d8 3
9th +4 Indomitable 3 4 1d8 3
10th +4 Subclass Feature 4 4 1d8 4
11th +4 Extra Attack (2) 4 5 1d10 4
12th +4 Feat 4 5 1d10 4
13th +5 Feat 4 5 1d10 4
14th +5 Subclass Feature 4 5 1d10 4
15th +5 Action Surge (2/short) 5 5 1d10 4
16th +5 Feat 5 5 1d10 4
17th +6 Extra Attack (3) 5 6 1d12 4
18th +6 Unconquerable 6 6 1d12 4
19th +6 Feat 6 6 1d12 4
20th +6 Epic Boon 6 6 1d12 4

Quick Start Guide Hit Points

You can make a stance fighter quickly by following these Hit Dice:1d10 per fighter level
suggestions: 10 + your Constitution
Hit Points at 1st Level:
Put your highest ability score in STR. modifier
Put your second highest ability score in CON. Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d10 (or 6) + your
Otherwise, DEX and WIS are both important saving
throws and help you with a number of important skills,
Constitution modifier per fighter level after 1st
although DEX can potentially be dumped entirely as long Proficiencies
as you wear heavy armour and want to prioritise other Armour: Light armour, medium armour, shields
ability scores. Meanwhile, CHA is good for talking skills
Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons
and INT is good for knowledge skills.
Choose the Soldier background. Tools: None
Saving Throws: Strength, Constitution
For your 2 skills, consider choosing Perception and

Skills: Choose two from Acrobatics, Animal

Survival, although optimal choices will also depend on
your Ability Scores and other characters in your party. You
should try to avoid any skills associated with one of your
Ability Scores that has a modifier of less than +0 (stick to
what you are good at or shore up managable weaknesses).
For equipment, choose:
Chainmail.
Longsword and Shield.
2 Handaxes.
Explorer’s Pack.
Handling, Athletics, History, Insight, Intimidation,
Perception, and Survival.
Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to
the equipment granted by your background:
(a) any two martial weapons or (b) any martial melee
weapon and a shield.
(a) a light crossbow and a case of 20 bolts or (b) two
handaxes.
(a) chain mail, (b) chain shirt, or (c) leather armour,
longbow, and a quiver of 20 arrows.
(a) An explorer’s pack or (b) a dungeoneer’s pack.

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Combat Tactics
1st-level Stance Fighter feature
You have undergone rigorous combat training and
soldiering drills to prepare you for the dangers of war
and combat in a fantasy world.
You start with two tactical points, which you can
expend to fuel a selection of three Tactics associated
with the Fighting Stance you have currently adopted.
You gain additional tactical points as you gain fighter
levels, as shown in the Tactical Points column of the
Stance Fighter table. You regain all of your expended
tactical points when you finish a short or long rest.
At 1st level, when a fighter feature asks you to roll
your tactical die, you roll 1d6. This die changes as you
gain fighter levels, as shown in the Tactical Die column
of the Stance Fighter table.
Saving Throws
Some of your Tactics and other fighter features may
require your target to make a saving throw to resist the
feature’s effects. The saving throw DC is calculated as
follows:
Fighter Save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your
Strength or Dexterity modifier (your choice).
Fighting Stance
1st-level Stance Fighter feature
You learn a number of fighting stances as determined
by the amount shown in the Fighting Stances column of
the Fighter table.
As a bonus action, you adopt a fighting stance you
know of your choice. The effects of the fighting stance
you adopt apply until until you change your fighting
stance as a bonus action.
Guardian Stance
While you adopt this stance, you gain the following
benefits while you are not surprised:
You gain a +1 bonus to your AC.
When a creature you can see within 5 feet of you
would be hit by an attack, you can use your reaction
to intercept the attack, causing the attack to target
you instead. If the attack roll of the intercepted
attack is lower than your AC, the attack misses. If the
intercepted attack hits, you have resistance against
the attack’s damage.
You can use any of the following Tactics: Goading
Strike, Guard, Sapping Strike.
Jackal Stance
While you adopt this stance, you gain the following
benefits while you are not surprised:
If your attack roll with a weapon or unarmed strike
misses a creature, you can deal damage to that
creature equal to the ability modifier you used to
make the attack roll. This damage is the same type
dealt by the weapon or unarmed strike, and the
damage cannot be increased in any way, other than
increasing the ability modifier.
You have a +1 bonus to your attack rolls using
weapons or unarmed strikes against any creature
that doesn’t have all of its hit points.
You can use any of the following Tactics: Distracting
Strike, Feinting Ploy, Takedown.
Juggler Stance
While you adopt this stance, you gain the following
benefits while you are not surprised:
When you hit with a ranged attack using a thrown
weapon, you gain a +2 bonus to the damage roll
Once on your turn, when you make a ranged attack
roll with a thrown weapon and miss, you can reroll
the attack roll against a different target that you can
see within 10 feet of the original target.
You can use any of the following Tactics: Distracting
Strike, Remarkable Athlete, Swift Fling.
Leader Stance
While you adopt this stance, you gain the following
benefits while you are not surprised:
When another creature that you can see within 30
feet of you fails a saving throw, if that creature can
both see and hear you, you can use your reaction to
allow the target to reroll its saving throw. If the
target does so, it must use the new roll.
You can use any of the following Tactics: Battle Cry,
Commanding Presence, Manoeuvring Strike.
Raider Stance
While you adopt this stance, you gain the following
benefits while you are not surprised:
When you roll a 1 or 2 on a damage die for an attack
you make using a weapon that you are proficient
with, you can reroll the die and must use the new
roll, even if the new roll is a 1 or a 2.
Your weapon attacks and unarmed strikes deal
double damage to unattended objects and structures.
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 You can use any of the following Tactics: Drive Back,
Menacing Strike, Smash and Grab.
Skirmisher Stance
While you adopt this stance, you gain the following
benefits while you are not surprised:
Your speed increases by 5 feet, or by 10 feet if you
are not wearing heavy armour.
You increase the reach of your melee weapons by 5
feet on your turn.
You can use any of the following Tactics: Ambush,
Fancy Footwork, Swift Fling.
Slayer Stance
While you adopt this stance, you gain the following
benefits while you are not surprised:
Your attacks using weapons score a critical hit on a
roll of 18, 19 or 20 on the die.
Once on your turn, when you score a critical hit on
an attack roll using a weapon, or when you reduce a
creature to 0 hit points with an attack using a
weapon, you can make one additional weapon attack
as a free action.
You can use any of the following Tactics: Ambush,
Feinting Ploy, Riposte.
Watchful Stance
While you adopt this stance, you gain the following
benefits while you are not surprised:
All spaces within 10 feet of you are treated as being
difficult terrain for creatures of your choosing that
you can see.
You have advantage on opportunity attacks, and
when you use your reaction to make an opportunity
attack, you can choose to regain your reaction at the
end of the turn.
You can use any of the following Tactics:
Manoeuvring Strike, Riposte, Watchful Eye.
Wave Stance
While you adopt this stance, you gain the following
benefits while you are not surprised:
When you hit a creature with an attack using a
weapon or unarmed strike as part of the Attack
action on your turn, you can push it up to 10 feet
horizontally away from you if it is Large-sized or
smaller, or up to 5 feet horizontally away from you if
it is Huge-sized or larger. Each creature can only be
pushed in this way once per turn.
You have advantage on all Strength saving throws
you would make.
You can use any of the following Tactics: Fancy
Footwork, Sweeping Strike, Takedown.
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Wrestler Stance
While you adopt this stance, you gain the following
benefits while you are not surprised:
Your unarmed strikes can deal bludgeoning damage
equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier. If you strike
with two free hands, the d6 becomes a d8.
When you hit a creature with an unarmed strike, you
can attempt to grapple that creature as a bonus
action.
When you successfully start a grapple, you can deal
1d4 bludgeoning damage to the grappled creature.
Until the grapple ends, you can also deal this
damage to the creature whenever you hit it with a
melee attack.
You can use any of the following Tactics: Drive Back,
Remarkable Athlete, Smash and Grab.
Second Wind
1st-level Stance Fighter feature
You momentarily pause to take a couple of steadying
breaths, before throwing yourself back into the fight
with renewed vigour.
You can use your bonus action to regain a number of
hit points equal to one roll of your tactical die + your
fighter level + your Constitution modifier.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to
the number shown on the Second Wind column of the
Fighter table, regaining all expended uses when you
finish a long rest.
Action Surge
2nd-level Stance Fighter feature
On your turn, you can take one additional action, chosen
from the following action options: Attack, Dash,
Disengage, Dodge, Help, Hide, or Use an Object.
You regain the use of this feature when you finish a
short or long rest.
When you reach 15th level, you can instead use this
feature twice, regaining all expended uses when you
finish a short or long rest. However, you cannot use this
feature more than once per turn.
Martial Archetype
3rd-level Stance Fighter feature
Choose a subclass, which determines the type of Martial
Archetype you have trained to become (choose from
Adventurer, Mist’s Chosen, Samurai, Voice of Thunder,
Warmaster, or other).
A subclass is a specialisation that grants you special
abilities at certain Fighter levels. For the rest of your
career, you gain each of your subclass’s features that
are of your Fighter level and lower. This class’s
description tells you the levels when your subclass Stance Fighter
provides features.
Feat
Subclasses
Five subclasses for the fighter are presented below.
4th-level Stance Fighter feature These are:
When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th The Adventurer Archetype A daring fighter who lives
and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of by their wits and determination.
your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores The Mist’s Chosen Archetype A fighter who
of your choice by 1. As normal, you cannot increase an commands supernatural mists.
ability score above 20 using this feature. The Samurai Archetype A noble fighter whose
greatest weapon is their discipline and sheer
Extra Attack determination.
5th-level Stance Fighter feature
The Voice of Thunder Archetype A fighter who holds
a position of authority and imbues their voice with
You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you magic.
take the Attack action on your turn. The Warmaster Archetype A fighter who is a master
The number of attacks increases to three when you tactician and battlefield commander.
reach 11th level in this class and to four when you reach
20th level in this class.
Indomitable
9th-level Stance Fighter feature
When you fail a saving throw, you can use this feature to
add one roll of your tactical die to the result, potentially
turning turning the failure into a success.
You regain the use of this feature when you finish a
short or long rest.
Unconquerable
18th-level Stance Fighter feature
When you use your Second Wind feature, you regain the
use of your Indomitable feature.
Epic Boon
20th-level Stance Fighter feature
You gain the following benefits:
Ability Score Increase. Choose your Strength or
Dexterity score. That score increases by 2, and its
maximum is now 30.
Epic Boon Feat. You gain the Epic Boon of Recovery
or another Epic Boon feat of your choice.

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 Adventurer
You set out to see the world and uncover its mysteries;
to attain greater fame, status and fortune for yourself; to
test your mettle and experience the thrills that come
with charging headlong into danger; as well as to forge
uncountable new friendships, and maybe even win a few
hearts along the way. You have discovered that things
work differently in the real world from how you had
imagined them back when you were a naïve child, seen
wonders that you never could have dreamed of, and had
a few more close calls than you would care to admit.
You have lived, you have laughed, you have wildly
celebrated success and tasted the bitterness of crushing
defeat, you have been taught a few important tricks and
dodges by both friend and adversary alike, and in some
cases have had to mourn their passing. But in spite of it
all, you are still here, your plucky wanderlust has never
dimmed, because you trust in your luck and know that
out here in the world are opportunities for you to really
make something of your life. You simply can’t go back to
a quiet life, because if you did you know for certain that
you’d spend all of your time wondering what you were
missing out on. Your life’s next big adventure awaits,
and you’re marching forth boldly to meet it.
Adventurer
Class Level Features
3rd Adventuring Experience, Audacity
6th Camaraderie
10th Back in Action
14th Never Give Up
Adventuring Experience
3rd-level Adventurer feature
You’ve been to strange places, met lots of interesting
people, have gotten yourself into trouble more than once
and learned a lot of valuable lessons along the way,
granting you the following benefits:
You can speak, read and write two additional
languages.
You recall a useful skill you’ve picked up during your
time adventuring. When you gain this feature upon
reaching 3rd level in this class, and subsequently
whenever you finish a long rest, you gain proficiency
in any one skill of your choice, which lasts until the
end of your next long rest.
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Audacity
3rd-level Adventurer feature
You gain one audacity in the following situations:
When you finish a long rest.
When you roll initiative at the start of combat.
When an enemy misses you with an attack.
When you succeed on a saving throw.
You can hold up to three instances of audacity at a
time. Any audacity that isn’t used by the time you finish
your next long rest is wasted.
Immediately before making an attack roll or ability
check, if you can add your proficiency bonus to the roll,
you can spend your audacity to gain advantage on that
attack roll or ability check.
Camaraderie
6th-level Adventurer feature
When you use your Second Wind feature, you can
choose to call out to a single creature within 30 feet of
you that you can see. If the target can both see and hear
you and is not incapacitated, it can choose to regain the
same number of hit points that you do from your
feature.
Back in Action
10th-level Adventurer feature
When you use your Second Wind feature, in addition to
the normal benefits you gain from that feature, you can
also choose to immediately take one of the following
actions of your choice once as a free action: Dash,
Disengage, Help, Hide, or Use an Object.
Never Give Up
14th-level Adventurer feature
At the start of each of your turns, if you have no more
than half of your hit points remaining, you regain a
number of hit points equal to one roll of your tactical die
+ your Constitution modifier. You do not gain this
benefit while you have 0 hit points.
Mist’s Chosen
You have a strange connection to eerie otherworldly
mists that possess some degree of sentience, as they
respond to your intent and in some cases even
communicate with you through misty visions and
imparted feelings and memories.
How you came by this power can vary. Perhaps you
breathed in the incense vapours of a djinn’s magical
censer, and the spirits within those vapours continue to
serve you loyally to this day? Perhaps it is a gift that was
imparted to you by the enigmatic spirits of the fey, who
have granted you mastery over this mysterious
phenomenon of the natural world? Perhaps they were
granted to you as a blessing by a forlorn and
sentimental goddess of death, garbed entirely in black,
whose designs upon the material world remain a
mystery even to her most devout followers? Or maybe
you happened to have been transported via supernatural
mists into a realm of darkness, designed long ago to
imprison ancient evils, and the mists now seem to have
a purpose in mind for you in particular? Whatever the
case, the mists are now yours to command.
Mist’s Chosen
Class Level Features
3rd Ghostly Strike, Spectral Mist
6th Mist Walker
10th Shelter of the Mists
14th Devouring Mists
Ghostly Strike
3rd-level Mist’s Chosen feature
When you spend a tactical point, you briefly imbue your
weapon with with ghostly energy. The next time you
attack a creature with a weapon you wield before the
end of your next turn, the target’s AC against the attack
is treated as though it was equal to 10 + the target’s
Dexterity modifier, and if the attack hits, the target takes
extra radiant damage equal to one roll of your tactical
die.
Spectral Mist
3rd-level Mist’s Chosen feature
You can use your bonus action to create a 20-foot-radius
sphere of magical mist centred on a point within 60 feet
of you. The sphere of magical mist spreads around
corners, and it lasts for 1 minute, or until you lose
concentration (as though concentrating on a spell).
When you use this feature, and at the start of each of
your turns, you can choose for the mists to have one of
the following properties:
Until the start of your next turn, the area of magical
mist is heavily obscured.
Until the start of your next turn, the area of magical
mist is lightly obscured.
Until the start of your next turn, the area of magical
mist is lightly obscured, but all creatures inside of
the area of magical mist are considered to be heavily
obscured to creatures that are outside of it.
At the start of your turn, you can move the sphere of
magical mist up to 10 feet in a direction of your
choosing.
The effect of the magical mist is temporarily
suppressed in a space where a wind of moderate or
greater speed (at least 10 miles per hour) is present, but
as long as the duration has not expired, the mist
reforms in that space as soon as the wind ceases.
You can use your bonus action in this way twice,
regaining all expended uses when you finish a short or
long rest.
Mist Walker
6th-level Mist’s Chosen feature
Your increased mastery over the mists at your
command grants you the following benefits:
You and anything that you are wearing, carrying or
dragging can move through a space as narrow as 1
inch wide without squeezing, as you appear to briefly
take on the properties of mist.
You have advantage on Constitution saving throws to
maintain concentration upon your Spectral Mist
feature.
On your turn, if you are within an area that is
affected by your Spectral Mist feature, you can
magically teleport to any unoccupied space that is
also within an area affected by your Spectral Mist
feature as a free action.
Shelter of the Mists
10th-level Mist’s Chosen feature
If a creature that is within the area affected by your
Spectral Mist feature would suffer damage from an
attack, spell or effect that does not kill the creature
outright, you can use your reaction to cause that
creature to instead take no damage from the attack,
spell or effect and vanish from its current plane of
existence, appearing in the Ethereal Plane (this effect
fails if the target was already on that plane). If you
change your plane of existence by using this feature, it
does not break your concentration on your Spectral
Mist feature. At the start of the vanished creature’s next
turn, it can return to an unoccupied space of its choice
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 that is within the area of your spectral mists. If no
unoccupied space is available within that area, it instead
appears in the nearest unoccupied space of its choice to
the one it vanished from.
You can use this feature twice, regaining all expended
uses when you finish a short or long rest.
Devouring Mists
14th-level Mist’s Chosen feature
You use your fighting skills to distract an enemy that
has wandered into your domain just long enough for the
mists to encircle it and transport it to an ethereal misty
prison where it can be contained.
When you hit a creature that is within the area
affected by your Spectral Mist feature with a weapon
attack, you can force the target to make a Charisma
saving throw against your fighter save DC. On a failed
save, the creature vanishes from its current plane of
existence, appearing in a harmless demiplane, and it is
restrained and incapacitated while it remains there.
While inside this demiplane, the creature can be seen
and heard by creatures that are on the Ethereal Plane,
the creature seeming to reside in the space in which it
vanished, but it cannot be interacted with on the
Ethereal Plane in any other way. The creature remains
in the harmless demiplane until the Spectral Mist ends,
or until you cause it to reappear as a bonus action.
When the creature reappears, it does so in the nearest
unoccupied space to where it vanished of its choosing.
You regain the use of this feature when you finish a
short or long rest.

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Samurai Tireless Spirit
A samurai is a warrior of the nobility, trained from birth 10th-level Samurai feature
to master the art of war and live up to the duties and When you roll initiative and have no uses of Spirit of the
expectations of their family and the feudal lord their Samurai remaining, you regain one use.
family serves. They are known for their unbreakable
warrior spirit, their fanatical devotion to those whom Spirit of War
they have sworn oaths of loyalty to, their fierce sense of
honour and pride, as well as their supreme willpower 14th-level Samurai feature
and self-control. When you use your Spirit of the Samurai feature, you
By holding absolute unwavering conviction in their can make one weapon attack as part of the bonus action
duty, a samurai is relentless in the pursuit of their to use the feature.
objectives, a truly fearsome opponent who will give their
enemies no quarter and fight to the last breath for what
they believe in.
Samurai
Class Level Features
3rd Spirit of the Samurai, Unquestionable Loyalty
6th Courtly Discipline
10th Tireless Spirit
14th Spirit of War

Spirit of the Samurai

3rd-level Samurai feature
You can use your bonus action on your turn to grant
yourself a number of temporary hit points equal to 2 +
your fighter level. When you do so, you also gain
advantage on weapon attack rolls until the end of the
current turn.
You can use this feature three times, and you regain
all expended uses of it when you finish a long rest.
Unquestionable Loyalty
3rd-level Samurai feature
When an allied creature that you can see is reduced to 0
hit points or dies, you can use your reaction to make one
weapon attack with advantage. Once an allied creature
triggers this reaction, that ally cannot trigger this
reaction again until you finish a long rest.
Courtly Discipline
6th-level Samurai feature
You take matters of social decorum with utmost
seriousness, amply demonstrating your sense of
honour, conviction, self-control and attention to detail in
everything you do, granting you the following benefits:
When you make a Charisma check, you can add your
Wisdom modifier to the roll.
You have proficiency in Wisdom saving throws. If
you already have this proficiency, you instead gain
proficiency in Intelligence or Charisma saving
throws (your choice).

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 Voice of Thunder
You trained to serve as the loyal vassal of a monarch, a
noble house, a military order of knights, or some other
institution of high authority. Appointing you to act as a
direct representative for such an esteemed personage,
family or institution is a great honour that demonstrates
the level of trust that your superiors hold in you and
your abilities, and this grants you a relatively free hand
when pursuing negotiations with other parties and
factions, and investigating matters of interest to those
you serve.
What marks you out as different from an ordinary
emissary or herald is not only your prodigious ability as
a warrior, but also the specialist training you have
received in the arcane arts, using magic to amplify your
voice in such a way as to better deliver proclamations
and speeches, and effectively convey orders to any
soldiers under your command in spite of the chaos and
confusion of battle. You can even use this power in a
limited way as a direct weapon against your enemies,
deafening them and breaking their ranks with but a
single mighty utterance.
Voice of Thunder
Class Level Features
3rd Thunder’s Roar
6th Court Representative
10th Sculptor of Sound
14th Words of Authority
Thunder’s Roar
3rd-level Voice of Thunder feature
You have been trained to serve as a trained envoy,
issuing proclamations, meeting with diplomats, leading
retinues of soldiers and using the magic of your voice to
ensure that your commands are able to be heard above
the din of battle. You gain the following benefits:
You can make your voice magically boom up to three
times louder than normal.
You can cast Thunderous Smite once without
expending a spell slot, regaining the ability to do so
when you finish a short or long rest. You deal
additional damage with this spell equal to half your
fighter level when you cast it using this feature.
You can cast Thunderwave once as a bonus action
without expending a spell slot or somatic
components, regaining the ability to do so when you
finish a short or long rest.
When you cast a spell using this feature, you cast it at
a spell level that is equal to half your fighter level, to a
maximum of 9th level. The spellcasting ability for these
spells is either Strength or Charisma (your choice).
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Court Representative
6th-level Voice of Thunder feature
You have learned how to more effectively conduct
yourself while serving at court and fraternising with
public officials, as well as how to navigate the web of
intrigue you can expect to find in such places.
You gain proficiency in two of the following skills of
your choice: Animal Handling, Deception, Insight,
Intimidation, Performance, and Persuasion.
Sculptor of Sound
10th-level Voice of Thunder feature
The magic of your voice grows in both power and
subtlety, granting you the following benefits:
When you use your Thunder’s Roar feature to make
your voice magically boom up to three times louder
than normal, you can also choose for your voice to
carry far and wide, allowing it to be clearly audible
out to a range of up to 1 mile away from you.
When you cast the Thunderwave spell using your
Thunder’s Roar feature, you can choose for the area
of the spell to become a 30-foot cone instead of a 15-
foot cube.
You can cast each of the following spells once
without expending a spell slot or material and
somatic components, regaining the ability to do so
when you finish a long rest: Pass Without Trace,
Silence, Suggestion, and Tongues.
When you cast a spell using this feature, you cast it at
a spell level that is equal to half your fighter level, to a
maximum of 9th level. The spellcasting ability for these
spells is either Strength or Charisma (your choice).
Words of Authority
14th-level Voice of Thunder feature
Whenever you reduce a hostile creature to 0 hit points
or use your Action Surge feature, you can choose one
allied creature that you can see within 60 feet of you
and call out to them. If that creature can both see and
hear you, they can immediately use their reaction to
carry out one of the following options:
Use the Help action.
Make one weapon attack.
Move up to half its speed without provoking
opportunity attacks.
In addition, you can cast Mass Suggestion once
without expending a spell slot or material components,
regaining the ability to do so when you finish a long rest.
When you cast a spell using this feature, you cast it at
a spell level that is equal to half your fighter level, to a
maximum of 9th level. The spellcasting ability for these
spells is either Strength or Charisma (your choice).

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 Warmaster
You have meticulously studied the art of war as
practiced throughout all of history by all of the greatest
battlefield commanders, mastered countless fighting
techniques, learned how to best go about probing your
enemy for weaknesses, and know how to most
effectively direct the soldiers under your command in
battle. Few can match your fighting skill and tactical
brilliance, allowing you to lead a party to overcome
overwhelming odds through cunning teamwork and
steadfast discipline.
Warmaster
Class Level Features
3rd History of War, Master of Tactics
6th Hybrid Stances
10th Know Your Enemy
14th Battlefield Commander
History of War
3rd-level Warmaster feature
You have proficiency in the History skill, and your
proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you
make with the History skill. If you are already proficient
in the History skill, you instead become proficient in one
of the following skills of your choice: Acrobatics, Animal
Handling, Athletics, Insight, Intimidation, Perception, or
Survival.
Master of Tactics
3rd-level Warmaster feature
Your tactical point maximum increases by 3, and you
learn one additional fighting stance of your choice.
In addition, when an allied creature that you can see
within 60 feet of you is in a situation where if you were
in their place you could use one of the tactics available
to you via your stance, you can spend a tactical point
and use your reaction to allow them to use one of your
tactics as though they were you and in your current
stance. The allied creature must be able to both see and
hear you in order to use one of your tactics in this way.
Hybrid Stances
6th-level Warmaster feature
You can adopt up to two fighting stances that you know
and gain the benefits of both simultaneously. When you
use your bonus action to change a fighting stance that
you have adopted, choose one of the two stances that
you have adopted and replace it with a different one.
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Know Your Enemy
10th-level Warmaster feature
You have proficiency in the Insight skill, and your
proficiency bonus is doubled for any ability check you
make with the Insight skill. If you are already proficient
in the Insight skill, you instead become proficient in one
of the following skills of your choice: Acrobatics, Animal
Handling, Athletics, Intimidation, Perception, or
Survival.
In addition, once on your turn, when you hit a
creature with a weapon attack, you can choose to learn
one piece of information about the target of your attack
of your choice from the following list:
Its creature type and current number of Hit Dice.
Its current number of Hit Points and Hit Point
maximum.
Its Ability Scores.
Its Armour Class and which saving throws it is
proficient in.
Which damage types it has immunity, resistance and
vulnerability to.
Its current number of legendary resistances (if any).
The details of one monster trait or action that the
DM believes is most useful for you to know about (if
any).
Battlefield Commander
14th-level Warmaster feature
Once on your turn, when you hit a creature with a
weapon attack, you can mark the target and coordinate
with your allies to help bring them down. Once before
the start of your next turn, apply one of the following
effects:
When an allied creature forces the target that was
marked by you to make a saving throw, you can roll a
d4 and subtract the number rolled from the marked
target’s result.
When an allied creature makes an attack roll against
the target that was marked by you, that attack roll is
made with advantage.
List of Tactics Drive Back
You can use the tactics associated with the fighting When you hit a creature with a weapon attack or
stance you have adopted: unarmed strike, you can expend one tactical point to
attempt to drive the target back. You can roll your
Ambush tactical die and add the number rolled to the attack’s
Battle Cry damage roll, and the target must make a Strength
Commanding Presence saving throw. On a failed save, you can push the target
Distracting Strike up to 10 feet horizontally away from you if it is Large-
Drive Back sized or smaller, or you can push the target up to 5 feet
Fancy Footwork horizontally away from you if it is Huge-sized or larger.
Feinting Ploy
Goading Strike Fancy Footwork
Guard When you move, you can expend one tactical point.
Manoeuvring Strike Until the end of the current turn, you gain the following
Menacing Strike benefits:
Remarkable Athlete
Riposte Your speed increases by 10 feet.
Sapping Strike You can move through spaces occupied by hostile
Smash and Grab creatures as long as you do not end your turn there,
Sweeping Strike and it costs you no extra movement to squeeze, move
Swift Fling through difficult terrain, or move through spaces
Takedown occupied by other creatures.
Watchful Eye You can roll your tactical die, adding the number
rolled to your AC for the duration.
Tactics Details Feinting Ploy
Ambush When you miss with a weapon attack or unarmed strike
When you make a Dexterity (Stealth) check or an on your turn, you can immediately use your bonus
initiative roll, you can expend one tactical point to roll action and expend one tactical point to declare that the
your tactical die and add it to the result. attack was a deliberate feint. If you do so, you have
advantage on the next attack roll you would make
Battle Cry against the chosen target before the end of your next
As a bonus action, you can expend one tactical point to turn, and if that attack hits you can roll your tactical die
call out a battle cry that bolsters the spirits of yourself or and add it to the damage roll.
your companions. Choose yourself or an allied creature Goading Attack
other than yourself that can both see and hear you. The When you hit a creature with a weapon attack or
chosen creature gains a number of temporary hit points unarmed strike, you can expend one tactical point to
equal to one roll of your tactical die + your fighter level. attempt to goad the target into attacking you. You can
Commanding Presence roll your tactical die and add the number rolled to the
When you make a Charisma (Intimidation) check or an attack’s damage roll, and the target must make a
Charisma (Persuasion) check, you can expend one Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, until the end of
tactical point to roll your tactical die and add it to the your next turn, the target cannot move further away
result. from you and has disadvantage on all attack rolls
against targets other than you.
Distracting Strike
Guard
When you hit a creature with a weapon attack or As a bonus action, you can expend one tactical point to
unarmed strike, you can expend one tactical point to roll your tactical die. Choose yourself or another
distract the creature, giving your allies an opening. You creature that you can see within 5 feet of you. The
can roll your tactical die and add the number rolled to chosen creature gains a bonus to their AC equal to the
the attack’s damage roll. The next attack roll against the number rolled until the start of your next turn.
target by an attacker other than you has advantage if the
attack is made before the start of your next turn.

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 Manoeuvring Strike
When you hit a creature with a weapon attack or
unarmed strike, you can expend one tactical point to
reposition one of your comrades into a more
advantageous location. You can roll your tactical die and
add the number rolled to the attack’s damage roll, and
you choose a willing creature that can see or hear you.
The chosen creature can use its reaction to move up to
its speed without provoking opportunity attacks from
the target of your attack.
Menacing Strike
When you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack or
unarmed strike, you can expend one tactical point to
attempt to frighten the target. You can roll your
superiority die and add the number rolled to the attack’s
damage roll, and the target must make a Wisdom saving
throw. On a failed save, it is frightened of you until the
start of your next turn.
Remarkable Athlete
When you make a Strength (Athletics) check or a
Dexterity (Acrobatics) check, you can expend one
tactical point to roll your tactical die and add it to the
result.
Riposte
When a creature misses you with a melee weapon
attack or unarmed strike, you can use your reaction and
expend one tactical point to make a melee weapon
attack or unarmed strike against the creature. If you hit,
you can roll your tactical die and add the number rolled
to the attack’s damage roll.
Sapping Strike
Immediately after you hit a creature with a weapon
attack or unarmed strike as part of the Attack action,
you can expend one tactical point to throw the enemy
off balance. You can roll your tactical die and add the
number rolled to the attack’s damage roll, and the target
has disadvantage on the next attack roll they would
make before the end of your next turn.
Smash and Grab
When you hit a creature with a weapon attack or
unarmed strike, you can expend one tactical point. You
can roll your tactical die and add the number rolled to
the attack’s damage roll, and the target must also make
a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, choose one
object it is holding, wielding, carrying, or wearing (as
long as the worn item requires 1 action to doff or less).
The creature drops the object, doffing the item as part
of your attack, and the object lands in a space you
choose within 5 feet of the target. If you choose for the
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object to land in the space you occupy, you can pick the
object up as part of this attack if you have a free hand
available to do so. If the target fails its saving throw by 5
or more, if the chosen object is non-magical and your
weapon or unarmed strike is able to damage it, you can
also choose to destroy the chosen object that is dropped
as part of the attack.
Sweeping Strike
When you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack or
unarmed strike, you can expend one tactical point and
use your bonus action to attempt to damage another
creature with the same attack. Choose another creature
within 5 feet of you or the original target that is within
your reach. If the original attack roll would also hit the
second creature, it takes damage of the type associated
with your weapon or unarmed strike equal to one roll of
your tactical die + the ability modifier used by the
weapon or unarmed strike.
Swift Fling
As a bonus action, you can expend one tactical point
and make a ranged weapon attack with a thrown
weapon. You can draw a thrown weapon as part of
making this attack. If you hit, add the superiority die to
the attack’s damage roll.
Takedown
When you hit a creature with a weapon attack or
unarmed strike, you can expend one tactical point to
attempt to knock the target down as part of the same
attack. You can roll your tactical die and add it to the
attack’s damage roll, and the target must make a
Strength or Dexterity saving throw (target’s choice). A
creature that is huge-sized or larger has advantage on
this saving throw. On a failed save, the target is knocked
prone.
Watchful Eye
When you make a Wisdom (Insight) check or an
Wisdom (Perception) check, you can expend one
tactical point to roll your tactical die and add it to the
result.
Stance Fighter
Multiclassing
Should you wish to multiclass into a stance fighter, the
prerequisites and proficiencies gained are listed below.
Multiclassing Prerequisites:
Ability Score Minimum: Strength 13 or Dexterity 13
Multiclassing Proficiencies:
Light Armour, Medium
Proficiencies Gained:
Armour, Shields, Simple Weapons, Martial
Weapons.

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 Adapting Other Subclasses
bviously, I cannot simply reprint existing

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subclasses – you’re going to have to buy
them like I did.
However, as an example, if you do have
access to the existing Echo Knight rules
and wish to play it, here is what I suggest
you do for reorganising subclass features,
as a quick fix:
Echo Knight Features
Class Level Features
3rd Manifest Echo, Unleash Incarnation
6th Echo Avatar
10th Shadow Martyr
14th Legion of One

You can do this with most of the subclasses. Choose

one of the subclass features to get rid of (usually either
the 15th or 18th, although sometimes 10th if that’s the
lamest one) and then restructure it to the 3rd-6th-10th-
14th format.

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