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A human in clanging plate armor holds her shield before her as she runs toward the massed goblins. An elf behind her, clad in studded leather armor, peppers the goblins with arrows loosed from his exquisite bow. The half-orc nearby shouts orders, helping the two combatants coordinate their assault to the best advantage.
A dwarf in chain mail interposes his shield between the ogre’s club and his companion, knocking the deadly blow aside. His companion, a half-elf in scale armor, swings two scimitars in a blinding whirl as she circles the ogre, looking for a blind spot in its defenses.
A gladiator fights for sport in an arena, a master with his trident and net, skilled at toppling foes and moving them around for the crowd’s delight—and his own tactical advantage. His opponent’s sword flares with blue light an instant before she sends lightning flashing forth to smite him.
All of these heroes are fighters, perhaps the most diverse class of characters in the worlds of Dungeons & Dragons. Questing knights, conquering overlords, royal champions, elite foot soldiers, hardened mercenaries, and bandit kings—as fighters, they all share an unparalleled mastery with weapons and armor, and a thorough knowledge of the skills of combat. And they are well acquainted with death, both meting it out and staring it defiantly in the face.
Well-Rounded Specialists
Fighters learn the basics of all combat styles. Every fighter can swing an axe, fence with a rapier, wield a longsword or a greatsword, use a bow, and even trap foes in a net with some degree of skill. Likewise, a fighter is adept with shields and every form of armor. Beyond that basic degree of familiarity, each fighter specializes in a certain style of combat. Some concentrate on archery, some on fighting with two weapons at once, and some on augmenting their martial skills with magic. This combination of broad general ability and extensive specialization makes fighters superior combatants on battlefields and in dungeons alike.
Trained for Danger
Not every member of the city watch, the village militia, or the queen’s army is a fighter. Most of these troops are relatively untrained soldiers with only the most basic combat knowledge. Veteran soldiers, military officers, trained bodyguards, dedicated knights, and similar figures are fighters.
Some fighters feel drawn to use their training as adventurers. The dungeon delving, monster slaying, and other dangerous work common among adventurers is second nature for a fighter, not all that different from the life he or she left behind. There are greater risks, perhaps, but also much greater rewards—few fighters in the city watch have the opportunity to discover a magic flame tongue sword, for example.
Creating a Fighter
As you build your fighter, think about two related elements of your character’s background: Where did you get your combat training, and what set you apart from the mundane warriors around you? Were you particularly ruthless? Did you get extra help from a mentor, perhaps because of your exceptional dedication? What drove you to this training in the first place? A threat to your homeland, a thirst for revenge, or a need to prove yourself might all have been factors.
You might have enjoyed formal training in a noble’s army or in a local militia. Perhaps you trained in a war academy, learning strategy, tactics, and military history. Or you might be self-taught—unpolished but well tested. Did you take up the sword as a way to escape the limits of life on a farm, or are you following a proud family tradition? Where did you acquire your weapons and armor? They might have been military issue or family heirlooms, or perhaps you scrimped and saved for years to buy them. Your armaments are now among your most important possessions—the only things that stand between you and death’s embrace.
QUICK BUILD
You can make a fighter quickly by following these suggestions. First, make Strength or Dexterity your highest ability score, depending on whether you want to focus on melee weapons or on archery (or finesse weapons). Your next-highest score should be Constitution, or Intelligence if you plan to adopt the Eldritch Knight martial archetype. Second, choose the soldier background.
The Fighter Table
| Level | Proficiency | Features |
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| 1st | +2 | |
| 2nd | +2 | Action Surge (one use) |
| 3rd | +2 | |
| 4th | +2 | |
| 5th | +3 | |
| 6th | +3 | |
| 7th | +3 | |
| 8th | +3 | |
| 9th | +4 | Indomitable (one use) |
| 10th | +4 | |
| 11th | +4 | Extra Attack (2) |
| 12th | +4 | |
| 13th | +5 | Indomitable (two uses) |
| 14th | +5 | |
| 15th | +5 | |
| 16th | +5 | |
| 17th | +6 | Action Surge (two uses), Indomitable (three uses) |
| 18th | +6 | |
| 19th | +6 | |
| 20th | +6 | Extra Attack (3) |
Class Features
As a fighter, you gain the following class features.
Hit Points
Hit Dice: 1d10 per fighter level
Hit Points at 1st Level: 10 + your Constitution modifier
Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d10 (or 6) + your Constitution modifier per fighter level after 1st
Proficiencies
Armor: All armor, shields
Weapons: Simple weapons, martial weapons
Tools: None
Saving Throws: Strength, Constitution
Skills: Choose two skills from Acrobatics, Animal 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) chain mail or (b) leather armor, longbow, and 20 arrows
- (a) a martial weapon and a shield or (b) two martial weapons
- (a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) two handaxes
- (a) a dungeoneer’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack
Fighting Style
You adopt a particular style of fighting as your specialty. Choose one of the following options. You can’t take a Fighting Style option more than once, even if you later get to choose again.
Archery
You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls you make with ranged weapons.
Defense
While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.
Dueling
When you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no other weapons, you gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls with that weapon.
Great Weapon Fighting
When you roll a 1 or 2 on a damage die for an attack you make with a melee weapon that you are wielding with two hands, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll, even if the new roll is a 1 or a 2. The weapon must have the two-handed or versatile property for you to gain this benefit.
Protection
When a creature you can see attacks a target other than you that is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the attack roll. You must be wielding a shield.
Two-Weapon Fighting
When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second attack.
Second Wind
You have a limited well of stamina that you can draw on to protect yourself from harm. On your turn, you can use a bonus action to regain hit points equal to 1d10 + your fighter level. Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.
Action Surge
Starting at 2nd level, you can push yourself beyond your normal limits for a moment. On your turn, you can take one additional action.
Once you use this feature, you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again. Starting at 17th level, you can use it twice before a rest, but only once on the same turn.
Martial Archetype
At 3rd level, you choose an archetype that you strive to emulate in your combat styles and techniques. Choose Champion, Battle Master, or Eldritch Knight, all detailed at the end of the class description. The archetype you choose grants you features at 3rd level and again at 7th, 10th, 15th, and 18th level.
Ability Score Improvement
When you reach 4th level, and again at 6th, 8th, 12th, 14th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.
Using the optional feats rule, you can forgo taking this feature to take a feat of your choice instead.
Extra Attack
Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.
The number of attacks increases to three when you reach 11th level in this class and to four when you reach 20th level in this class.
Indomitable
Beginning at 9th level, you can reroll a saving throw that you fail. If you do so, you must use the new roll, and you can’t use this feature again until you finish a long rest.
You can use this feature twice between long rests starting at 13th level and three times between long rests starting at 17th level.
Extra Attack
Beginning at 11th level, you can attack three times, instead of twice, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.
The number of attacks increases to four when you reach 20th level in this class.
Extra Attack
At 20th level, you can attack four times, instead of three, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.
Martial Archetypes
Different fighters choose different approaches to perfecting their fighting prowess. The martial archetype you choose to emulate reflects your approach.
Champion Legacy This doesn't reflect the latest rules and lore. Learn More
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
Starting at 7th level, 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.
Archery
You gain a +2 bonus to attack rolls you make with ranged weapons.
Defense
While you are wearing armor, you gain a +1 bonus to AC.
Dueling
When you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no other weapons, you gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls with that weapon.
Great Weapon Fighting
When you roll a 1 or 2 on a damage die for an attack you make with a melee weapon that you are wielding with two hands, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll, even if the new roll is a 1 or a 2. The weapon must have the two-handed or versatile property for you to gain this benefit.
Protection
When a creature you can see attacks a target other than you that is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the attack roll. You must be wielding a shield.
Two-Weapon Fighting
When you engage in two-weapon fighting, you can add your ability modifier to the damage of the second attack.
Superior Critical
Starting at 15th level, your weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 18–20.
Survivor
At 18th level, 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.
Gunslinger
THIS IS UNOFFICIAL MATERIAL
These game mechanics are usable in your campaign if your DM allows them but not refined by final game design and editing. They aren’t officially part of the Dungeons & Dragons game and aren’t permitted in D&D Adventurers League events unless otherwise stated. To use this content, toggle the Critical Role content on in the character builder.
Most warriors and combat specialists spend their years perfecting the classic arts of swordplay, archery, or pole arm tactics. Whether duelist or infantry, martial weapons were seemingly perfected long ago, and the true challenge is to master them.
However, some minds couldn’t stop with the innovation of the crossbow. Experimentation with alchemical components and rare metals have unlocked the secrets of controlled explosive force. The few who survive these trials of ingenuity may become the first to create, and deftly wield, the first firearms.
This archetype focuses on the ability to design, craft, and utilize powerful, yet dangerous ranged weapons. Through creative innovation and immaculate aim, you become a distant force of death on the battlefield. However, not being a perfect science, firearms carry an inherent instability that can occasionally leave you without a functional means of attack. This is the danger of new, untested technologies in a world where the arcane energies that rule the elements are ever present.
Should this path of powder, fire, and metal call to you, keep your wits about you, hold on to your convictions as a fighter, and let skill meet luck to guide your bullets to strike true.
Firearm Proficiency
Starting when you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with firearms, allowing you to add your proficiency bonus to attacks made with firearms.
Gunsmith
Upon choosing this archetype at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with Tinker’s Tools. You may use them to craft ammunition at half the cost, repair damaged firearms, or even draft and create new ones (DM’s discretion). Some extremely experimental and intricate firearms are only available through crafting.
Firearm Properties
Firearms are a new and volatile technology, and as such bring their own unique set of weapon properties. Some properties are followed by a number, and this number signifies an element of that property (outlined below). These properties replace the optional ones presented in the Dungeon Master’s Guide. Firearms are ranged weapons.
Reload. The weapon can be fired a number of times equal to its Reload score before you must spend 1 attack or 1 action to reload. You must have one free hand to reload a firearm.
Misfire. Whenever you make an attack roll with a firearm, and the dice roll is equal to or lower than the weapon’s Misfire score, the weapon misfires. The attack misses, and the weapon cannot be used again until you spend an action to try and repair it. To repair your firearm, you must make a successful Tinker’s Tools check (DC equal to 8 + misfire score). If your check fails, the weapon is broken and must be mended out of combat at a quarter of the cost of the firearm. Creatures who use a firearm without being proficient increase the weapon’s misfire score by 1.
Explosive. Upon a hit, everything within 5 ft of the target must make a Dexterity saving throw (DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Dexterity modifier) or suffer 1d8 fire damage. If the weapon misses, the ammunition fails to detonate, or bounces away harmlessly before doing so.
Ammunition
All firearms require ammunition to make an attack, and due to their rare nature, ammunition may be near impossible to find or purchase. However, if materials are gathered, you can craft ammunition yourself using your Tinker’s Tools at half the cost. Each firearm uses its own unique ammunition and is generally sold or crafted in batches listed below next to the price.
Firearms
| Name | Cost | Ammo | Damage | Weight | Range | Properties |
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| Palm Pistol | 50g | 2g (20) | 1d8 piercing | 1 lb. | (40/160) | |
| Pistol | 150g | 4g (20) | 1d10 piercing | 3 lb. | (60/240) | |
| Musket | 300g | 5g (20) | 1d12 piercing | 10 lb. | (120/480) |
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| Pepperbox | 250g | 4g (20) | 1d10 piercing | 5 lb. | (80/320) | |
| Blunderbuss | 300g | 5g (5) | 2d8 piercing | 10 lb. | (15/60) | |
| Bad News | Crafted | 10g (5) | 2d12 piercing | 25 lb. | (200/800) |
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| Hand Mortar | Crafted | 10g (1) | 2d8 fire | 10 lb. | (30/60) |
Adept Marksman
When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you learn to perform powerful trick shots to disable or damage your opponents using your firearms.
Trick Shots. You learn two trick shots of your choice, which are detailed under “Trick Shots” below. Many maneuvers enhance an attack in some way. Each use of a trick shot must be declared before the attack roll is made. You can use only one trick shot per attack.
You learn an additional trick shot of your choice at 7th, 10th, 15th, and 18th level. Each time you learn a new trick shot, you can also replace one trick shot you know with a different one.
Grit. You gain a number of grit points equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1). You regain 1 expended grit point each time you roll a 20 on the d20 roll for an attack with a firearm, or deal a killing blow with a firearm to a creature of significant threat (DM’s discretion). You regain all expended grit points after a short or long rest.
Saving Throws. Some of your trick shots require your targets to make a saving throw to resist the trick shot’s effects. The saving throw DC is calculated as follows:
Trick Shot save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Dexterity modifier
Quickdraw
When you reach 7th level, you add your proficiency bonus to your initiative. You can also stow a firearm, then draw another firearm as a single object interaction on your turn.
Rapid Repair
Upon reaching 10th level, you learn how to quickly attempt to fix a jammed gun. You can spend a grit point to attempt to repair a misfired (but not broken) firearm as a bonus action.
Lightning Reload
Starting at 15th level, you can reload any firearm as a bonus action.
Vicious Intent
At 18th level, your firearm attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 19-20, and you regain a grit point on a roll of 19 or 20 on a d20 attack roll.
Hemorrhaging Critical
Upon reaching 18th level, whenever you score a critical hit on an attack with a firearm, the target additionally suffers half of the damage from the attack at the end of its next turn.
Trick Shots
These trick shots are presented in alphabetical order.
Bullying Shot
You can use the powerful blast and thundering sound of your firearm to shake the resolve of a creature. You can expend one grit point while making a Charisma (Intimidation) check to gain advantage on the roll.
Dazing Shot
When you make a firearm attack against a creature, you can expend one grit point to attempt to dizzy your opponent. On a hit, the creature suffers normal damage and must make a Constitution saving throw or suffer disadvantage on attacks until the end of their next turn.
Deadeye Shot
When you make a firearm attack against a creature, you can expend one grit point to gain advantage on the attack roll.
Disarming Shot
When you make a firearm attack against a creature, you can expend one grit point to attempt to shoot an object from their hands. On a hit, the creature suffers normal damage and must succeed on a Strength saving throw or drop 1 held object of your choice and have that object be pushed 10 feet away from you.
Forceful Shot
When you make a firearm attack against a creature, you can expend one grit point to attempt to trip them up and force them back. On a hit, the creature suffers normal damage and must succeed on a Strength saving throw or be pushed 15 feet away from you.
Piercing Shot
When you make a firearm attack against a creature, you can expend one grit point to attempt to fire through multiple opponents. The initial attack gains a +1 to the firearm’s misfire score. On a hit, the creature suffers normal damage and you make an attack roll with disadvantage against every creature in a line directly behind the target within your first range increment. Only the initial attack can misfire.
Violent Shot
When you make a firearm attack against a creature, you can expend one or more grit points to enhance the volatility of the attack. For each grit point expended, the attack gains a +2 to the firearm’s misfire score. If the attack hits, you can roll one additional weapon damage die per grit point spent when determining the damage.
Winging Shot
When you make a firearm attack against a creature, you can expend one grit point to attempt to topple a moving target. On a hit, the creature suffers normal damage and must make a Strength saving throw or be knocked prone.
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Posted Nov 16, 2020why is the battle master Arcetype missing even do it is in the the player handbook ?
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Posted Nov 13, 2020i mean you can use it each reaction for a minute but only once each round
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Posted Nov 12, 2020Intelligence is very underused in 5e so they are making many things intelligence based to make it more important. In the base phb you only need intelligence if you are a wizard, arcane trickster or eldritch knight or if you just wanna role play a smart character.
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Posted Nov 12, 2020Bardic inspiration, eat your heart out...
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Posted Nov 11, 2020You invoke the rune to get the 1 minute buff. You can use that reaction as often as you can use your reaction during that 1 minute- invoking the rune is once per short or long rest, but the reaction is available "until the state ends," which is only when 1 minute is up or you're incapacitated.
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Posted Nov 11, 2020I had the same question reading this description... it seems like you can do it once per turn (reaction) for up to 1 minute, but it's a little nebulous.
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Posted Nov 11, 2020You can't take actions through the Echo. You can attack from the Echo's position or take attacks of opportunity from its position. The rules don't state that it can open doors, pull levers, etc.
That being said, the swapping places feature has been very handy for me in getting out of sticky situations, such as falling into a pit trap or getting out of alligator infested swamp water and onto a tree branch.
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Posted Nov 11, 2020So is this until you use it? Or you get to use it for EACH reaction for a minute?
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In addition, you can invoke the rune as a bonus action to enter a prophetic state for 1 minute or until you’re incapacitated. Until the state ends, when you or another creature you can see within 60 feet of you makes an attack roll, a saving throw, or an ability check, you can use your reaction to cause the roll to have advantage or disadvantage. Once you invoke the rune, you can’t do so again until you finish a short or long rest.
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Posted Nov 10, 2020Strictly speaking this isn't spellcasting. Storm Herald Barbarians set their save DC using their Constitution, Dragonborn breath weapon DC is based on Constitution, and the full preview of the Path of the Wild Soul for the barbarian shows them using Constitution to set the DC for their wild magic effects, so no this isn't just the 2nd time
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Posted Nov 10, 2020If that’s true, then that’s, what, the second time constitution has been a spellcasting ability (first time genasi)?
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Posted Nov 9, 2020That would be honestly amazing! considering it's not a main spellcasting class I don't believe it makes sense to use a spellcasting modifier. However! due to the fact that it's gimmick is taking power from the giants and becoming a sort of tank. It makes sense to me that your ability to harness their runes is based off of how much you can take and hold it together! (Constitution)
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Posted Nov 6, 2020I heard a rumor it's going Constitution in the official release
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Posted Nov 5, 2020Really hoping the Rune Knight is swapped to Wisdom instead of Intelligence in the full release. So many things being released are Intelligence based and it would be nice for Fighter to have something Wisdom based.
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Posted Nov 5, 2020Brute took away too much space for Champion.
I agree, it was a nice idea.
They should have made the bonus damage only "once per round" or make it so that "+1d4 if one-handed and +1d6 if two handed" then it would have stopped all the roflstomping dual wielders just spin-to-win through anything. :D
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Posted Oct 30, 2020How have people introduced the echo knight archetype into a game?
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Posted Oct 24, 2020Misty step is a 30ft teleport plus your full movement (on average 60 ft), Echo knight teleport cost half your speed (up to 45 ft on average). You probably wouldn't want your echo to be exactly 30 ft from you, because if you or your echo are forced to move it gone and there goes your teleport next turn so you probably end up only slightly above your walking speed. yes while this is a free teleport may I remind you a horizon walker ranger can teleport just as far for free and still take it full movement with Distance Strike. This feature helps your fighter be move mobile getting in close to be effective in combat rather then them playing catch up, getting grappled, or stuck in a wall of force the whole fight.
While Echo Avatar is admittedly pretty potent, it is effectively just a quality of life feature, be able to scout ahead isn't all that game breaking, because you still have to get through the area yourself, so knowing there is a dragon in the next room or seeing a trap doesn't mean its gone, you still have to deal with, you just know what to prepare yourself for. An no the echo isn't gonna solo the encounter because it only has one hit point and setting off a trap usually doesn't matter, because most traps reset themselves if not disarmed. Also remember your echo is an object and doesn't have your stats, it only use your saving throws. Which means it doesn't get your bonus to skills, so unless you roll really well on a straight d20 roll it not gonna be disarming any complicated traps, picking many locks, or moving any heavy objects on it's own.
I do agree that this is probably one of the top tier fighters, but I don't believe that it is really all that broken. Limiting the echo makes most if not all the features feel useless, because the echo has 1 hp, you'd either waste all your echos in all in one fight because it gets destroyed so easily, or be too scared to summon one at all to save them for when it matter, where you will probably have to resummon one each turn if you aren't extremely careful. if you gave it more hp to compensate for that it would become too strong because that would be like just fabricating an additional party member. I also don't mind that it keeps scaling to get better, every class should do this to give you incentive to stick with the class to get more potent abilities, and not just bum rush a front loaded feature just to multiclass. A while this feature seems to be one of those front loaded abilities, multiclassing makes it weaker than if you just stuck with fighter the whole way through.
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Posted Oct 22, 2020This isn't entirely accurate. The Reload property from the Gunslinger and the Loading property from firearms are two different things. The Gunner feat is independent from the Critical Role content, and so it is referring to the firearm properties that come from the DM's guide and not the Gunslinger class. In the DM's guide, firearms have the same Loading property that crossbows do. Which means that you can't attack more than once with a firearm in a single round because of the time it takes to reload the weapon. So the Gunner feat simply means that you can fire the weapon more than once during a single round because you are able to load the weapon faster than someone without the feat. But you do still load the weapon with ammunition.
For the Gunslinger, firearms don't have a Loading property at all, and instead they have the Reload property. This means that it takes either an action, attack, or bonus action at higher levels to reload the weapon. So in theory, if you have three attacks you can use one of them to reload the weapon and fire again in the same turn, no feat required. Or you could have a weapon that has several rounds before it needs to be reloaded. So this is a complete reworking of how firearms work, and doesn't really mix with the base game version of firearms. There is a special feat from Critical Role called Firearm Specialist that is designed around their version.
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Posted Oct 22, 2020You don't stop moving at the end of the turn unless you specifically say you do... A turn is just a 6 second period of time, and your movement is how far you can get within that period of time. It doesn't mean that you have to stop moving at the end of your turn, it's just that the next turn captures the continuation of your movement in the next 6 second increment.
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Posted Oct 21, 2020Some fun things the Echo Knight gets:
Infinite no Cooldown Misty Steps that only cost movement.
An Infinite amount of disposable bodies to send down a possibly trapped cave. (While yes, you can argue it doesnt trigger traps because its an echo, you can take actions through it, so just having it punch the walls and stomp floors is possible, it can also open chests, doors, pull levers etc, all with up to 1000 range.
A 1000 feet range scout spell with no ressources or cooldowns.
And these are only the things that you can do all day long… No other class (note that I didnt say subclass, I said CLASS) gets so many things that consume no ressources or have cooldowns of short or long rests. And the Echo knight even gets all these options at Levels 3 and 7...
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Posted Oct 20, 2020It not as strong as it may seem at first glance, the echo doesn’t count as an ally so you don’t get flanking with it and it disappears if it moves more that 30 ft from you at the end of your turn, meaning you have to re-summon it each turn if you’re trying to hit something far away. It also has only one hit point and automatically fails saving throws against aoe effects if they do even half damage on save. The reason it is an infinite summon is to bypass frustration of wasting your unique class feature and allowing melee focused characters to have a decent ranged option. However I do agree it is a potent subclass, but a fighter is really only as good as his stats and equipment because they lack magical damage.