The archetypal Champion focuses on the development of raw physical power honed to deadly perfection. Those who model themselves on this archetype combine rigorous training with physical excellence to deal devastating blows.

Improved Critical

Beginning when you choose this archetype at 3rd level, your weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20.

Remarkable Athlete

You can add half your proficiency bonus (round up) to any Strength, Dexterity, or Constitution check you make that doesn’t already use your proficiency bonus.

In addition, when you make a running long jump, the distance you can cover increases by a number of feet equal to your Strength modifier.

Additional Fighting Style

At 10th level, you can choose a second option from the Fighting Style class feature.

Superior Critical

Your weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 18–20.

Survivor

You attain the pinnacle of resilience in battle. At the start of each of your turns, you regain hit points equal to 5 + your Constitution modifier if you have no more than half of your hit points left. You don’t gain this benefit if you have 0 hit points.

Fighters who take on the Duelist archetype specialize in one-on-one combat, preferring the elegance and focus of single combat to the chaos of the battlefield. Whether with a rapier, a longsword, or a custom-made dueling weapon, Duelists are masters of precision and control, turning each duel into a deadly dance.

Precision Strike

Starting at 3rd level, you can use your bonus action to focus on a single target within 5 feet. Until the start of your next turn, any attack roll you make against the target has advantage, and if you hit, you add your Dexterity modifier to the damage roll.

Combat Readiness

Also at 3rd level, your intense focus and quick reflexes allow you to add your Dexterity modifier to your Initiative rolls.

Counterattack

At 7th level, when a creature within 5 feet of you makes an attack against you and misses, you can use your reaction to make a melee attack against that creature. This attack has advantage if you are using your dueling weapon.

Perfect Defense

At 10th level, when you are hit with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to add your Dexterity modifier (minimum of +1) to your AC, potentially causing the attack to miss. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Dexterity modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses after a long rest.

Elegant Maneuver

At 15th level, whenever you use your Precision Strike feature, you can also choose one creature within 5 feet of your target. That creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw (DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Dexterity modifier) or be unable to make attacks of opportunity until the start of your next turn.

Master Duelist

At 18th level, you become a master of single combat. Whenever you use your Precision Strike feature and hit, your target is subjected to disadvantage on all attack rolls against creatures other than you until the start of your next turn. Additionally, when you hit a creature with your Counterattack feature, the damage is automatically a critical hit.

Spellblades are warriors who embrace both steel and spell, channeling arcane energies through their weapons to bolster their attacks and confound their enemies. They’re a versatile fighting force, equally comfortable on the front lines or casting spells from the rear.

Spellcasting

Spell Slots

The Spellblade table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these spells, you must expend a slot of the spell’s level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

For example, if you know the 1st-level spell animal friendship and have a 1st-level and a 2nd-level spell slot available, you can cast animal friendship using either slot.

Spells Known of 1st Level and Higher

At 3rd level, you choose a school of magic to specialize in: Abjuration, Evocation, or Transmutation. You learn two cantrips and three 1st-level spells from that school, drawn from the wizard spell list. You can cast these spells without needing material components and use Intelligence as your spellcasting ability.

The Spells Known column of the Spellblade table shows when you learn more wizard spells of your choice. Each of these spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots and must be from your chosen school. For instance, when you reach 5th level in this class, you can learn one new spell of 1st or 2nd level.

Additionally, when you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the wizard spells you know and replace it with another spell from your school on the wizard spell list, which also must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

Spellcasting Ability

Intelligence is your spellcasting ability for your wizard spells. You use your Intelligence whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Intelligence modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a wizard spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier.

Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Intelligence modifier.

Enchanted Strike

Also at 3rd level, when you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can expend a spell slot to deal additional damage of the same type dealt by the weapon. The extra damage is 2d8 for a 1st-level spell slot, plus 1d8 for each spell level higher than 1st.

Arcane Defense

At 7th level, you can use your reaction to cast an Abjuration spell that you know when you or a creature within 30 feet of you is hit by an attack. The spell must have a casting time of 1 reaction or 1 bonus action.

Spellshatter

Starting at 10th level, when you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can choose to dispel one spell affecting it. Make an Intelligence (Arcana) check against a DC of 10 + the spell’s level. On a successful check, the spell ends.

Elemental Infusion

At 15th level, when you cast an Evocation spell that deals damage, you can choose one damage type from the spell. For 1 minute, your weapon attacks deal an extra 1d6 damage of that type.

Arcane Ascendancy

At 18th level, you can use an action to enter a state of arcane focus for 1 minute. While in this state, you can cast spells as bonus actions and your weapon attacks are considered magical for overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you complete a long rest.

Fighters who adopt the Warlord archetype are natural leaders on the battlefield. They are as skilled in tactical decision-making as they are in combat. A Warlord knows that a well-placed command can be as lethal as any sword or spell, able to direct allies and seize the initiative to turn the tide of battle.

Tactical Insight

Starting at 3rd level, you can use your Wisdom modifier in addition to your Intelligence modifier when you make an Investigation or History check related to battle tactics, enemy movements, or military history.

Commanding Presence

Also starting at 3rd level, you can use a bonus action to issue a command to an ally within 60 feet who can hear you. The ally can immediately make a single weapon attack as a reaction or move up to half their speed without provoking opportunity attacks. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier (minimum of once), and you regain all expended uses after a long rest.

Battle Plans

At 7th level, during a short or long rest, you can devise a set of battle plans. Choose up to six creatures (not including yourself). These creatures gain one of the following benefits until your next rest:

• Flanking Maneuvers: When a chosen creature and at least one other ally are within 5 feet of an enemy, the enemy is considered flanked.
• Defensive Formation: When a chosen creature is targeted by an attack, they gain a +1 bonus to AC if they are within 5 feet of an ally.
• Rapid Advance: Chosen creatures’ speed increases by 10 feet.

Shock and Awe

Starting at 10th level, whenever you score a critical hit or reduce an enemy to 0 hit points, you can issue a command as a reaction to an ally within 60 feet. This command does not expend a use of your Commanding Presence feature.

Master Strategist

At 15th level, you can use Commanding Presence as a reaction when an ally misses an attack or fails a saving throw, allowing them to reroll the d20. You must complete a long rest before you can use this feature again.

Warlord's Rally

At 18th level, as an action, you can let out a battle cry that invigorates your allies. All allies within 60 feet who can hear you regain hit points equal to your Fighter level + your Charisma modifier and gain advantage on attack rolls and saving throws until the end of your next turn. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you complete a long rest.