1 - Unarmored Defense
While you aren’t wearing any armor, your base Armor Class equals 10 plus your Dexterity and Constitution modifiers. You can use a Shield and still gain this benefit.
1 - Martial Artist
You gain proficiency in Strength (Athletics) skill checks.
You gain combat mastery over unarmed strikes and brawler weapons, including shortswords and any simple melee weapons that aren't two-handed or heavy. Your unarmed strikes count as melee weapon attacks.
You gain the following benefits when unarmed or wielding only brawler weapons and not wearing armor or wielding a shield:
- You can use your Dexterity modifier instead of your Strength modifier for the attack and damage rolls of your Unarmed Strikes and brawler weapons.
- You can roll 1d8 in place of the normal damage of your Unarmed Strike or brawler weapons. This damage increases to 2d8 at level, 11 and 3d8 at level 18.
- You can make an Unarmed Strike as a Bonus Action.
Some training centers use unique brawler weapons, like nunchaku or kama. Regardless of their name, use the game statistics provided for the weapon.
1 - Brawler Subclass
You gain a Brawler subclass of your choice. A subclass is a specialization that grants you features at certain Brawler levels. For the rest of your career, you gain each of your subclass’s features that are of your Brawler level or lower.
2 - Danger Sense
You gain an uncanny sense of when things aren’t as they should be, giving you an edge when you dodge perils. You have Advantage on Dexterity saving throws unless you have the Incapacitated condition.
2 - Reckless Attack
You can throw aside all concern for defense to attack with increased ferocity. When you make your first attack roll on your turn, you can decide to attack recklessly. Doing so gives you Advantage on attack rolls using Strength until the start of your next turn, but attack rolls against you have Advantage during that time.
4 - Ability Score Improvement
You gain the Ability Score Improvement feat or another feat of your choice for which you qualify. You gain this feature again at Brawler levels 8, 12, and 16.
5 - Charge
When you use your action to Dash, you can make one melee weapon attack or to shove a creature within 5 feet of where you end your dash.
If you moved at least 10 feet, you either gain a +5 bonus to the attack’s damage roll (if you chose to make a melee attack and hit) or push the target up to 10 feet away from you.
If you moved at least 10 feet, you either gain a +5 bonus to the attack’s damage roll (if you chose to make a melee attack and hit) or push the target up to 10 feet away from you.
6 - Extra Attack
You can attack twice instead of once whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.
7 - Empowered Strikes
Your unarmed strikes and Brawler weapons count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.
9 - Brutal Critical
You can roll one additional weapon damage die when determining the extra damage for a critical hit with a melee attack. This increases to two additional dice at 13th level and three additional dice at 17th level.
11 - Relentless Fighter
Your rage can keep you fighting despite grievous wounds. When you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can make a DC 10 Constitution saving throw. If you succeed, you drop to 1 hit point instead. Each time you use this feature after the first, the DC increases by 5. When you finish a short or long rest, the DC resets to 10.
13 - Brutal Critical
You can roll two additional weapon damage die when determining the extra damage for a critical hit with a melee attack. This increases to three additional dice at 17th level.
15 - Fighter's Instincts
Your instincts are so honed that you have advantage on initiative rolls. Additionally, if you are surprised at the beginning of combat and aren't incapacitated, you can act normally on your first turn.
16 - Purity of Body
You are immune to disease and Poison damage. In addition, you suffer none of the frailty of old age, and you can't be aged magically, however, You can still die of old age.
18 - Survival Instincts
You gain proficiency in all saving throws, and gain an inspiration die at the start of combat. Additionally, whenever you make a saving throw and fail, you can spend 1 inspiration die to reroll it and take the second result without expending the die if you succeed.
20 - Brawler's Apex
Your Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution scores increase by 4.
