Brawling Fighting Style

Style

Cost: 5 Character Points

You are skilled at using your weight to your advantage. You gain the following benefits:

• Your unarmed strike and improvised weapon damage die increases by one step (e.g. from 1 to 1d4).
• When you hit a creature with an unarmed strike or an improvised weapon on your turn, you can attempt to grapple the target as a free action.

The damage die size increases from brawling fighting style and brawling mastery do apply to the damage die of natural weapons. For example, the damage die of a longtooth shifter’s fangs increases from 1d6 to 1d8.

If you use your martial feat die for your unarmed damage die, then the increased damage die size from brawling fighting style and brawling mastery do not apply. For example, a warrior with a martial feat die of 1d6, brawling fighting style and the martial arts talent from the monk talent tree deals 1d6 damage with their unarmed strikes, not 1d8.

Mastery

Cost: 10 Character Points
Prerequisite: Brawling Fighting Style

You’ve mastered using your weight to your advantage, easily wrangling targets around. You gain the following benefits:

• Your unarmed strike and improvised weapon damage die increases by one step (e.g. from 1d4 to 1d6) and improvised weapons wielded by you have the versatile weapon property.
• Your speed isn’t halved by carrying a grappled creature who is the same size category as you or smaller.