The Protection fighting style simply grants another way to use your one reaction. The Protection fighting style says: When a creature you can see attacks a target other than you that is within 5 feet of you, you can use your reaction to impose disadvantage on the attack roll. You must be wielding a shield.
Can you have multiple fighting styles?
You CAN’T take a Fighting Style option more than once, even if you later get to choose again…” Since the only way you would ever be able TO choose more than once is through multiclassing, this is a down the board hard rule and includes but is not limited to Multiclassing.
What is great weapon fighting?
The Great Weapon Fighting feature—which is shared by fighters and paladins—is meant to benefit only the damage roll of the weapon used with the feature. For example, if you use a greatsword with the feature, you can reroll any 1 or 2 you roll on the weapon’s 2d6.
Can a fighter change fighting styles?
You can learn multiple Fighting Styles (either via multi-classing or the Champion archetype), and they will all take effect as appropriate, but you cannot learn the same Fighting Style twice. There is no rules-supported method for changing a Fighting Style you’ve already selected and learned.
How many times can you react DND?
How many reactions can a character use per round/turn? For each round of combat a character only gets one reaction. They regain their reaction each time they take their turn, not at the top of the combat round. When you take a reaction, you can’t take another one until the start of your next turn.
Can the protection fighting style be used in this?
Your interpretation of this feature is absolutely correct; the only thing the protection fighting style allows a character to do is, upon seeing a creature attack a target adjacent to the character, use their reaction to impose disadvantage on the roll.
Is it a problem to impose disadvantage on the attack roll?
To Impose Disadvantage on the Attack Roll: This bit is the Problem. Now, let me be clear: my problem isn’t with Advantage and Disadvantage per se. They’re amazingly efficient mechanics that have sped up 5e combat to an unbelievable degree.
Do you get one reaction per round in the protection fighting style?
However, you only get one reaction per round, which refreshes at the start of your turn. That means that this fighting style is competing with opportunity attacks, especially the badass OAs of the Sentinel feat, for your sole reaction in a round. The effect of this fighting style needs to be pretty impressive.
Can a tunnel fighter use a defensive stance?
While in your defensive stance, you can make opportunity attacks without using your reaction, and you can use your reaction to make a melee attack against a creature that moves more than 5 feet while within your reach. The “Protection stance” that you mention him using also matches what the Tunnel Fighter style includes.
