Bulwark Fighter Archetype

Bulwark
Fighter Archetype
Written by Stratos Fotakis

Bulwark Interposing Shield
Some fighters say, “Defense is the best way of of- At 15th level, you gain the ability to protect your allies
fense”, but Bulwark fighters take that idea to the from certain area effects, such as a red dragon’s fiery
extreme. These fighters prefer to wear heavy plate breath or an Ice Storm spell. If you and one or more allies
armor and carry huge iron shields, in order to be within 10 feet of you are targeted by an effect that allows
protected from any kind of physical damage. Bulwark them to make a Dexterity saving throw to take half dam-
Fighters feel like it’s their duty to protect those who age, you can use your reaction to grant them advantage
cannot protect their selves and they would put their on the saving throw, but you make the save with Disad-
life on the line in order to keep their allies safe. vantage.
Shield Fighting Moving Fortress Fortitude

At 3rd level, you gain one of the following features of your At 18th level, when you use your Second Wind feature,
choice. you also gain temporary hit points equal to double your
Shield Dueling. When you gain this fighting style, your Fighter Level.
shield is considered a one-handed melee weapon and
deals 1d4 + shield AC bonus + your Strength modifier
bludgeoning damage. You can wield a single shield to Variant : Tower Shield
gain the benefit of this feature (Your shield also gains any Armor (shield), common
You need to have 14 Strength or higher in order to use
benefit from Fighting styles that affect one-handed melee
this shield. While wielding this shield you have a +3
weapons like Dueling fighting style). bonus to your AC but you also have dissadvantage on
Shield Dual Wield. When you gain this fighting style, you Dexterity (Stealth) checks.
can wield dual shields, one in each hand but you cannot As a bonus action you can take full cover behind the
wield any other weapon or try to grapple a creature while shield, reducing your speed to 0 while doing so. While
taking full-cover the shield blocks line of sight to your
holding shields in both hands. You gain a +1 bonus from
front. You also can not take any opportunity attacks.
the second shield and you can use your bonus action to
make an off-hand attack using your second shield, but
you don’t add your Strength modifier to the damage of the
attack. The normal attack deals 1d4 + Strength modifier
bludgeoning damage (If you have chosen Two-Weapon
fighting as a fighting style or Dual wielder feat, you can
add your Strength mod damage as normal to the offhand
attack).
The damage of your shield attack increases to 1d6 at
10th level and to 1d8 at 15th level in this class.
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