Spear Fighter

Watching the master of the spear fight is akin to watching somebody dancing. Trading attack power for the ability to parry incoming attacks is their greatest assist.

Spear Parry

At 3rd level the Spear Fighter learns how to parry attacks with their spear, they must be using a glaive, halberd, quarterstaff, or spear. The Spear Fighter spends a panache point and rolls an attack roll against the enemy's melee attack that they can see, if it meets or exceeds their roll they successfully parried the attack and take no damage. They must declare the parry attempt after the die is rolled, but before the damage is rolled. Every parry attempt after the first, as well as every attack made until the end of their turn is made without their proficiency bonus.

Panache

A Spear Fighter uses these points to parry, they can choose to use a reaction and not spend a point. At the end of the Spear Fighter's turn all panache are restored.

 

Level     Panche Point

3-6       1

7-10    2

11-14  3

15-18  4

19-20 5

Armor Proficiency +

At 7th level the Spear Fighter has grown accustomed to their fighting style, their body is able to react to attacks quicker to set up for either a dodge or a parry. They gain +2 armor class. At the 15th level they had mastered their fighting style and gain an additional +1 to their AC.

Weapon Proficiency +

The Spear fighter feels more confident in their attacks, they gain +2 to attack and damage rolls for attacks made with a glaive, halberd, quarterstaff, or a spear. At 15th level they gain an additional +1 to their attack and damage.

Dodge

The Spear Fighter's movement is always changing to anticipate incoming attacks, they may take the dodge action as a bonus action.