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Starting at 7th level, your unarmed strikes are
considered magical for the purpose of overcoming
resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and
damage.
BRUTE FORCE
Also at 3rd level, you can maneuver your opponents
to gain a ruthless edge in combat. When you hit a
creature with an unarmed strike or a melee attack
using an improvised weapon, you can use your
bonus action to attempt to grapple the target or deal
an extra 1d6 damage.
This damage increases as you gain higher levels
in this class. At 5th level, the extra damage you deal
increases to 1d8 damage, at 11th level it increases to
1d10 damage, and at 17th level, it increases to 1d12
damage.
IMPOSING PHYSIQUE
Starting at 7th level, you learn to speak more with
your prodigious muscles instead of your words.
You gain proficiency in the Intimidation skill, and
you can use your Strength bonus instead of your
Charisma bonus for Charisma (Intimidation) checks.
Additionally, your capacities for carrying, lifting,
pushing, and pulling are doubled.
HAYMAKER
At 10th level, you can put all your force into one
blow. When you use the Attack action on your turn
to make an unarmed strike, you can choose to forgo
any additional attacks you could make with your
action to make a single, devastating blow. For each
attack you would give up in this way, you can add
two extra damage dice to the attack’s damage roll.
OWLBEAR WRESTLER
Starting at 15th level, you’ve learned how to pin
down even the most towering foes. You have
advantage on Strength (Athletics) checks you make
to grapple creatures of Large size and smaller, and
you can attempt to grapple creatures of any size
category.
SKULLBREAKER
Starting at 18th level, your blows are able to rattle
even the greatest of foes. Once on each of your
turns when you deal damage to a creature with an
unarmed strike or an improvised weapon, you can
choose to shatter their resolve. You gain resistance to
any damage that creature deals to you until the start
of your next turn.
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Celestial Lancer
Feared frontline warriors bearing lances and unique,
streamlined armor, Celestial Lancers are famous for
their Meteor Jump, a supernatural technique taught
only to the rare few. The lancers trace their origins
back to an order of dragon hunters who learned
to leap above diving dragons and pin their wings
with a swift, downward lance strike. This technique,
combined with a suite of mystical powers drawn
from the yawning sky, makes the lancers decisive
warriors in the arena of vertical combat. Though
Celestial Lancers may be hampered in claustrophobic
dungeons, they excel underneath the open sky, where
they can leap high and come crashing down for
devastating impacts.
LANCE SPECIALTY
Beginning when you select this archetype at 3rd
level, when you wield a lance, you do not suffer
disadvantage when attacking creatures within 5 feet
of you. However, you must still wield a lance two
handed when not mounted.
METEOR JUMP
Starting at 3rd level, you can perform a
supernaturally high leap. Once on each of your turns,
you can use 20 feet of your movement to perform
a high jump reaching 10 feet in height. You need
not move 10 feet immediately before making this
jump, and do not provoke opportunity attacks while
jumping or falling. You can land within 10 feet of
where you began. At the end of a fall, subtract 10
feet from the distance you fell when calculating your
falling damage.
The height you can jump and the distance you
subtract when you fall increases as you gain levels in
this class, as shown on the Meteor Jump table below.
Meteor Jump
Fighter Level Jump Height
3rd 10 feet
5th 20 feet
11th 30 feet
17th 40 feet
PLUNGING ATTACK
Also at 3rd level, you can direct the momentum of
gravity into your strike. Once on each of your turns,
when you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack
while falling, you can add 1d6 to the damage roll for
every 10 feet you fell, up to a maximum of 5d6.
APEX MOMENT
Starting at 7th level, you gain the mystical ability
to hang at the peak of your jump before you come
plunging back down. When you use your Meteor
Jump ability, you can choose to hover until the start
of your next turn instead of falling immediately.
When you do so, you can’t use your Meteor Jump on
your next turn.
EARTHSHAKER
Beginning at 10th level, at the end of a fall of 20 feet
or higher, you can use a bonus action to strike the
earth like a meteor. Each creature in contact with
the ground within 10 feet of where you land must
succeed on a Dexterity saving throw (DC equals 8 +
your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier) or
be knocked prone.
You can use this feature a number of times equal
to your Strength modifier (a minimum of once). You
regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
CELESTIAL AURA
By 15th level, you can draw mystical power from
your connection to the open sky. When you use your
Second Wind feature, you and each friendly creature
you choose within 10 feet of you gain temporary hit
points equal to your fighter level.
COMET STRIKE
Starting at 18th level, you plummet wreathed in
flames like a devastating meteor. When you use your
Earthshaker ability, a creature that fails its saving
throw takes 4d6 fire damage, or half as much on a
success. Additionally, when you roll initiative and
have no uses of your Earthshaker feature left, you
regain one use of that feature.
Corsair
The wide-open ocean, the salty breeze, and
the freedom of a ship—these are the things a
corsair values more than anything else. Though
an archetypal corsair is no less trained than
their military counterparts, they prefer a more
swashbuckling, charismatic approach to life, and take
well to privateering, smuggling, exploring, and other
self-directed work.
BONUS PROFICIENCIES
When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you
gain proficiency in the Sleight of Hand skill, if you
did not already have proficiency.
SURPRISE ATTACK
At 3rd level, you’ve learned to strike foes when they
Fighters
least expect it. Once per turn, you can deal an extra
1d6 damage to one creature you hit with an attack
if you have advantage on the attack roll. The attack
must use a finesse or a ranged weapon.
You don’t need advantage on the attack roll if
another enemy of the target is within 5 feet of it,
that enemy isn’t incapacitated, and you don’t have
disadvantage on the attack roll.
The amount of extra damage increases as you
gain levels in this class. At 7th level, this damage
increases to 2d6, at 11th level, this damage increases
to 3d6, and at 15th level, this damage increases to
4d6.
COMMANDEER
At 3rd level, you can replace one of your attacks with
an attempt to steal an item being carried by another
creature. You can’t attempt to steal an object that is
being worn as clothing or armor, nor can you steal an
object that is being held in one of the target’s hands.
Make a Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check, opposed
by the target’s AC. On a success, you successfully
steal that object. You must have a free hand to use
this ability.
THREE SHEETS
Starting at 7th level, whenever you use your
Second Wind ability, you can also take the Dash or
Disengage action as part of the same bonus action.
CHARMED LIFE
By 10th level, you can saunter into trouble and make
it out unscathed, thanks to your considerable luck.
You can gain advantage on one ability check, attack
roll, or saving throw that uses Dexterity or Charisma.
Once you use this ability, you can’t use it again
until you finish a short or long rest.
SLIPPERY POSITIONING
Starting at 15th level, whenever a hostile creature
that you can see within 60 feet moves, you can move
5 feet without using your reaction or provoking
opportunity attacks. On each round, you can use this
ability a number of times equal to your Dexterity
modifier.
UNTOUCHABLE SWORDSMAN
By 18th level, you are legendary with a cutlass.
Whenever you hit a creature with your Surprise
Attack, the target has disadvantage on attack rolls
against you until the start of your next turn.
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Dungeoneer
Only fools would think to dive headfirst into
an abandoned crypt filled with monsters and
deathtraps, but it seems only fools emerge from such
crypts laden with as much loot as they can carry.
The archetypal dungeon delver is a veteran of such
suicidal dungeon delves, and has become intimately
familiar with the hazards therein. In the course
of their adventures, such a dungeoneer will have
adopted countless best practices, along with a litany
of unproven superstitions which they believe keeps
them alive. Principles from “always be the first one to
hit the monster” to “never be the first one to touch a
treasure chest” line a dungeoneer’s journal. However,
it’s probably better to be paranoid and superstitious
than lying at the bottom of a pit trap, incinerated by a
fireball, or digested by a mimic.
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DANGER SENSE
Beginning when you choose this archetype at 3rd
level, you have advantage on Dexterity saving throws
against effects that you can see, such as traps and
spells. To gain this benefit, you can’t be blinded,
deafened, or incapacitated.
KICK IN THE DOOR
Also at 3rd level, you know how to charge through
each chamber of a dungeon and come out alive.
When you initiate combat by kicking down a
door, diving in from overhead, crashing through
a window, or any other suitably reckless tactic (as
adjudicated by the GM), you have advantage on your
initiative roll and on attacks you make during your
first round of combat. You can’t gain this benefit
when you are surprised or when fighting creatures
you can’t see.
DUNGEONEER'S INTUITION
By 7th level, you have a second sense for the unique
hazards present in a dungeon. You have advantage
on ability checks you make to detect shapechangers,
traps, and unseen magical effects, and can make a
check to detect such hazards even if you wouldn’t
normally make such a check.
MONSTER KILL
Starting at 10th level, when you hit an
aberration, fey, fiend, monstrosity, or undead
with a weapon attack, you can deal an extra
die of damage to the target. You can use this
ability three times, and regain all expended
uses when you finish a short or long rest.
LETHALITY PREVENTION
By 15th level, you are a foremost expert in
avoiding death. Whenever you would take
damage in excess of 50 hit points but aren’t
killed outright, you can instead reduce the
damage taken to 50 hit points.
AVOIDANCE
Starting at 18th level, when you are subjected
to an effect that allows you to make a
Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution saving
throw to take only half damage, you instead
take no damage if you succeed on the saving
throw, and only half damage if you fail.