Fighter Fighting Styles (5e Class Feature)

Fighting Style[edit]

The following styles are added to the list for fighters. Under the discretion of DM, the following fighting styles can be added to the list for paladins and rangers.

General[edit]

Brawler

If you take the Attack action on your turn to make one or more melee weapon attacks but hit with none of them, you can use your bonus action to make an unarmed strike.

Brutal Strike

Whenever you hit a creature with a melee weapon that you are wielding with two hands, you can attempt to drive the target back. If the target is Medium or smaller, it must make a Strength saving throw. The DC equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier. On a failed save, the target is pushed 5 feet away from you. The weapon must have the two-handed or versatile property for you to gain this benefit, and you may not use this effect more than once a turn.

Careful Strike

When you make a melee attack, but before you make the attack roll, as a bonus action, you may gain a bonus to the attack roll equal to your proficiency bonus. If the attack hits, you subtract your proficiency bonus from the attack's damage.

Close Quarters Shooter

You are trained in making ranged attacks at close quarters. When making a ranged attack while you are within 5 feet of a hostile creature, you do not have disadvantage on the attack roll and your base movement speed increases by 5 feet.

Durability

When you learn this fighting style, your maximum HP increases by an amount equal to your level. Then each time you gain a level, your maximum HP increases by an additional 1.

Fast Reloading

When you learn this fighting style, choose one type of crossbow you are proficient in. You ignore the loading property of the chosen weapon.

Gathering Steps

When you are wielding a melee weapon in one hand and no other weapons, the weapon you are wielding is considered to have the reach property, if the weapon already has this property the reach increases by a further 5ft.

Hand-to-Hand Combat

You gain the following benefits while you are unarmed or wielding only light melee weapons and you aren't wearing heavy armor or wielding a shield:

You can use Dexterity instead of Strength for the attack and damage rolls of your unarmed strike and light melee weapons.
You can roll a d6 in place of the normal damage of your unarmed strike or light melee weapon.
When you take the Attack action on your turn and only make attacks with an unarmed strikes or light melee weapons, you can make one unarmed strike as a bonus action.

Hit And Run

When you hit a creature with a melee attack, you do not provoke opportunity attacks from that creature by moving un and out of it's attack range.

Hurler

When you throw a weapon, as part of the same attack, you may pull out another weapon and you do not incur disadvantage for attacking with a thrown weapon at its long range.

Piercing Shot

You gain a +2 bonus to damage rolls you make with two-handed ranged weapons.

Power Attack

When you make a melee attack, before you make the attack roll, you can choose not to add your proficiency bonus to the attack roll. If the attack hits, you add your proficiency bonus to the attack's damage. You cannot do this if you are using the finesse property of the weapon.

Spellcasting

You gain a +1 to your spell attacks and your Spell Save DC.

Versatile Weapon Master

When wielding a versatile weapon in one hand you get a +1 bonus to your damage rolls. When wielding a versatile weapon in two hands, you gain +1 bonus to your attack and damage rolls.

Versatility

You gain a +1 bonus to attack rolls you make with simple and martial weapons. You only gain this benefit while not wielding a shield.

Improvised Fighting

When wielding an improvised weapon, you get a +1d4 bonus to your damage rolls.

Barrage of punches

Prerequisite: ability to make an unarmed strike with a bonus action.

You gain the following benefits while you are unarmed or wielding only:

When you make an unarmed attack, you can make an additional attack the main action instead of the bonus action.
You get a +2 bonus to the attack roll when you make unarmed attack.

NOTE: When using the main action for this attack, you can no longer perform attacks with a bonus action. Monk's flurry of blows also cannot be used with this.

Campaign-dependent[edit]

The following fighting styles can be adopted on a specific campaign, which allows a specific set of rules as a prerequisite.

Musketeer