Wrathful Brawler (3.5e Prestige Class)

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A prestige class for unarmed barbarians. 6 Other

Wrathful Brawler

“	SIR JACK O'NEIL SMASH!!!	”
—Sir Jack O'Neil, Human Wrathful Brawler

Wrathful brawlers are unarmed barbarians, using their incredible rage to increase their hand-to-hands capacities. Wrathful brawlers make for excellent grapplers, capable of powerful maneuvers with grappled opponents. Overall a wrathful brawler possess great durability and combat prowess, capable of annihilating his foes with his bare hand and a satisfying crunch.

Becoming a Wrathful Brawler

Entry Requirements  

Alignment:	Any non-lawful.
Base Attack Bonus:	+6.
Feats:	Improved Grapple, Improved Unarmed Strike, Thorned Fist.
Special:	Must have the rage class feature and be able to rage at least twice per day

Table: The Wrathful Brawler

Hit Die: d12

Level	Base Attack Bonus	Saving Throws			Special	Unarmed Damage
		Fort	Ref	Will
1st	+1	+2	+0	+0	Barbarian Abilities, Improvised Fist Weapon	1d8
2nd	+2	+3	+0	+0	Damage Resistance, Unarmed Grapple Master	1d8
3rd	+3	+3	+1	+1	Low Blow, Sizable Anger	1d10
4th	+4	+4	+1	+1	Eye Gouge	1d10
5th	+5	+4	+1	+1	Pummeling Grapple	1d12
6th	+6/+1	+5	+2	+2	Sizable Anger	1d12
7th	+7/+2	+5	+2	+2	Backbreaker	2d8
8th	+8/+3	+6	+2	+2	Swift Pin	2d8
9th	+9/+4	+6	+3	+3	Neck Snapper, Sizable Anger	2d10
10th	+10/+5	+7	+3	+3	Wrathful Abandon	2d10
Class Skills (2 + Int modifier per level) Balance (Dex), Climb (Str), Handle Animal (Cha), Intimidate (Cha), Jump (Str), Knowledge (Nature) (Int), Knowledge (Local) (Int), Listen (Wis), Profession (Wis), Ride (Dex), Search (Int), Sense Motive (Wis), Spot (Wis), Survival (Wis), Swim (Str).

Class Features

All of the following are class features of the Wrathful Brawler.

Barbarian Ability (Ex): Levels in wrathful brawler count as levels in barbarian (or whichever class granted you rage) for the purpose of the number of rages per day you receive, and the bonuses received during rage, gaining greater, tireless and mighty rage as appropriate. You do not gain any other benefits of the barbarian class such as trap sense, damage reduction class features.

Improvised Fist Weapon (Ex): A 1st level wrathful brawler count all improvised weapon as simple fist weapons. Such as allowing them to be used with her thorned fist feat and making herself proficient with them.

Unarmed Damage (Ex): Your unarmed attacks deal more damage than usual. At 1st level, you deal 1d8 points of damage with each unarmed strike. When you attain 3rd level, this damage increases to 1d10 points and keep increasing each odd level afterward (see table above). See the monk class feature. If your unarmed attack already deals this amount of damage or more, increase the base damage to the next step indicated on the monk class table.

Damage Resistance (Ex): At 2nd level wrathful brawler reduces all hit point damage that would be done to her by her class level before applying other effects such as damage reduction or energy resistance. It works against physical damage as well as energy damage, even force damage.

Unarmed Grapple Master (Ex): At 2nd level you gain the unarmed grapple master feat as a bonus feat even if you do not meet the prerequisites.

Low Blow (Ex): At 3rd level a wrathful brawler know how to hit where it hurt, if she attack a creature without it dexterity bonus to AC (by example a flat-footed or stunned creature) she may make her attacks low-blows. For each low-blow a creature receive it take cumulative a -1 penalty to attack, ability checks and skill check due to the pain for 3 rounds (to a maximum of -5). This is a pain effect.

Sizable Anger (Ex): At 3rd level a wrathful brawler count as one size category larger whenever it would be beneficial while raging. She gain an additional virtual size category increase while raging at 6th and 9th level.

Eye Gouge (Ex): At 4th level whenever a wrathful brawler confirm a critical hit with her unarmed attack against a creature with eyes she may forgo the extra damage from the critical hit and instead permanently blind the struck creature. A regenerate spell or stronger magic can restore the blinded creature's sight.

Pummeling Grapple (Ex): As a full-attack action a 5th level wrathful brawler can makes a grapple check to maintain the grapple, and if successful then makes a full attack without penalty with her unarmed strikes.

Backbreaker (Ex): When doing a coup de grace, a 6th level wrathful brawler may instead permanently paralyze the creature by doing non-lethal damage with her coup de grace.

Swift Pin (Ex): At 7th level a wrathful brawler may attempt to pin a grappled creature as a swift action.

Finishing Pin (Ex): At 8th level, if a wrathful brawler can maintain a pin for at least 3 round she may make a single unarmed attack, this attack is an automatic critical hit. After this attack the grapple end whether the creature survived or not.

Neck Snapper (Ex): At 9th level whenever a wrathful brawler confirm a critical hit with her unarmed attack against a creature with a neck she may forgo the extra damage from the critical hit to force the creature to make a fortitude save (DC 10 + 1/2 HD + the wrathful brawler's strength mod) or have it neck snapped as per cervical break.

Wrathful Abandon (Ex): At 10th level a wrathful brawler gain the ability when she declare a rage to take a penalty to her AC equal to her base attack bonus instead of the usual -2. If she does she gain an extra +4 bonus to strength plus an extra 2 for each 5 points of base attack bonus she has.

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