D&D 5E 5E Survivor - Subclasses (Part VI: Fighters)

[Undrave]

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Cavalier 16 + 1 = 17 It's not my favorite but this subclass is way too good to down early. You could never hop on a mount and this would still be worthwhile to play.

We should probably ditch the UA ones first...

I wonder if folks would still be downvoting it if I had used its generic name ("Banneret") instead of its campaign-specific one.

Nah, it just sucks.

 

[OB1]

Arcane Archer 18
Battle Master 22
Brute 20
Cavalier 18
Champion 20
Echo Knight 21
Eldritch Knight 20+1=21
Knight 20
Monster Hunter 20
Psi Warrior 21
Purple Dragon Knight 16
Rune Knight 20
Samurai 20
Scout 18-2=16
Sharpshooter 20

This is a tough one, 4 amazing sub-classes in this survivor!

 

[RuinousPowers]

Arcane Archer 19 (+)
Battle Master 22
Brute 20
Cavalier 18
Champion 20
Echo Knight 21
Eldritch Knight 21
Knight 20
Monster Hunter 20
Psi Warrior 19 (-)
Purple Dragon Knight 16
Rune Knight 20
Samurai 20
Scout 16
Sharpshooter 20

 

[RealAlHazred]

Arcane Archer 19
Battle Master 22
Brute 20
Cavalier 18
Champion 20
Echo Knight 21 - 2 = 19
Eldritch Knight 21
Knight 20
Monster Hunter 20
Psi Warrior 19
Purple Dragon Knight 16
Rune Knight 20
Samurai 20
Scout 16 + 1 = 17
Sharpshooter 20

 

[Undrave]

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I hadn't seen the Fighter Scout and HOLY MOLY! It's such a stinker! It's basically an awful Battlemaster with more skills... What were they thinking?

 

[Omand]

Arcane Archer 19
Battle Master 22
Brute 20 - 2 = 18
Cavalier 18
Champion 20 + 1 = 21
Echo Knight 19
Eldritch Knight 21
Knight 20
Monster Hunter 20
Psi Warrior 19
Purple Dragon Knight 16
Rune Knight 20
Samurai 20
Scout 17
Sharpshooter 20

 

[CleverNickName]

Spoiler: Unearthed Arcana Strategy (and Anti-Strategy)

We should probably ditch the UA ones first...

It's as good a reason to downvote something as any other. But I wonder if people would actually be able to tell me which ones were Unearthed Arcana and which ones weren't, if I didn't cite the sources up top.

That might be an interesting experiment for future threads. I could "accidentally" label something as Unearthed Arcana instead of Xanathar's or whatever, and see if people downvote it out of reflex without even checking.

Also: many of the Unearthed Arcana versions are superior to the ones that made it into print elsewhere. Just sayin'.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Arcane Archer 19
Battle Master 22
Brute 18
Cavalier 18
Champion 21
Echo Knight 19
Eldritch Knight 22
Knight 20
Monster Hunter 20
Psi Warrior 19
Purple Dragon Knight 16
Rune Knight 18 - too many knights
Samurai 20
Scout 17
Sharpshooter 20

 

[RealAlHazred]

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I've run tables for several fighters, and Arcane Archer, Battle Master, and Eldritch Knight were actually really good classes, and the players had a lot of fun with them. And one of them was a "fighters are boring" guy at the beginning!

 

[Ancalagon]

Arcane Archer 19
Battle Master 22
Brute 18
Cavalier 18
Champion 21
Echo Knight 17
Eldritch Knight 22
Knight 20
Monster Hunter 20
Psi Warrior 19
Purple Dragon Knight 16
Rune Knight 19
Samurai 20
Scout 17
Sharpshooter 20

EDIT: fixing my scores because Paul posted juuust before I did. @Paul Farquhar , yes, too many knight, but how about you just get rid of the "Knight otherwise non specified" first?

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The Rune Knight is an amazing tank. It would be, quite frankly, OP but it is limited by how many bonus action/reactions you have in a round. It is really fun to play and much more interesting than many of the other "magical/pseudomagical" fighters. I'm voting against Echo Knight because how poorly written it is and all the rule questions it raises.

Lastly, I see someone upvoted champion and downvoted brute, which is a bit sad because the brute is a better "easy to use" fighter IMO... but then again, I don't like UA stuff here either.