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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celtavian" data-source="post: 6652381" data-attributes="member: 5834">I don't include sword and board in the discussion because they have other options for being highly effective. Not sure Protection Style is the best for a defensive fighter. It's not bad. Seeing a defensive fighter in action, taking Sentinel seems to be more helpful. It competes for the reaction with Protection Style. You can lock someone down with Sentinel, which keeps them from attacking the ranged and casters. If you can, go Eldritch Knight. If you have plate armor, defensive fighting style, and take the shield spell and maybe cast blur or haste later on, you can get a ridiculous AC even without magic items. Plate Armor, Shield, and shield can give you a 26 AC four plus times a day. That is ridiculous hard to hit. If you pick up Shield Master, you can still get a bonus action knockdown attack and good resistance to dex-based attacks. You can build an extremely good defensive martial in this game.</blockquote>