Pugilist

Pugilists in the Arena Royale fight club travel the world earning their keep as equal parts performer and gladiator. Whether performing in staged physical competitions, or fighting it out in unscripted brawls, pugilists in the Arena Royale care as much about the theatrics of a fight as they do its outcome. Pugilists in this fight club also care deeply about their reputation and work to build up local and regional legends about their performing personas.

Starting at 6th level, while you have adopted your alternate persona, you can use your action to inspire your choice of fear or adoration in those nearby. When you do, creatures of your choice within 30 feet who can see you must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier) or be charmed if you chose adoration, or frightened if you chose fear. This effect lasts for one minute. Each time a creature takes damage from you or one of your allies it can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on a success.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Starting at 11th level, your base walking speed increases by 10 feet, your jump distance is doubled, and you can use a bonus action on each of your turns to take the Dash action.

Starting at 17th level, you create a signature move that you can use while you have adopted your alternate persona. Give your signature move a name and a description. You can replace one of your attacks on your turn with this signature move.

When you use your signature move, you can jump in any direction up to your movement speed, make an attack roll with advantage against a creature in your reach. On a hit, the attack scores a critical hit and the creature is stunned until the end of your next turn.

If you hit with your signature move, you must finish a long rest before you can use it again. If you miss with your signature move, you regain the use of it after 1 minute.

Pugilists in the Bloodhound Bruisers fight club are notorious for looking for trouble and finding it every time. Members of this fight club are highly observant of character traits and physical evidence and can form an almost supernatural connection to the cities they live in. Most use these abilities to become urban defenders of the downtrodden but others lend their talents to less savory organizations.

At 6th level, you can use a bonus action and expend 2 moxie points to hone in on the idiosyncrasies and bad habits of an enemy you can see within 30 feet. When you do, you have advantage on weapon attacks against the creature and you add your proficiency bonus to your AC against attacks made by that creature. These effects continue for 1 minute or until you use this feature again.

Starting at 11th level, when you take a long rest in a settlement, you can choose to become familiar with the settlement. When you use this feature again, you replace your previous familiar settlement with the current one. You gain the following benefits while in a familiar settlement:

Starting at 17th level, you can use a bonus action and spend 1 moxie point to open your senses to your surroundings for 1 minute. During this time, you have advantage on saving throws against being blinded or deafened and have truesight out to a distance of 30 feet.

You've never had a friend you could rely on that walked on two legs. Lucky for you, you've got the best fourlegged friend a body could ask for. Pugilists in the Dog & Hound fight club are as faithful to their canine companions as their canine companions are to them.

Starting at 6th level, you and your canine companion form a more potent fighting team. When you use the Attack action on your turn, if your hound can see you, it can use its reaction to make a bite attack.

At 11th level, when a creature deals damage to your hound with an attack, you can use your reaction to make an opportunity attack against that creature if you are within range.

Beginning at 17th level, your hound's spirit is as unbreakable as yours. When you hound takes damage that reduces its current hit points to half its maximum hit points or less, you can use your reaction ot let your hound off the chain. When you do, it immediately gains temporary hit points equal to four times your pugilist level and, for the next minute, its speed increases by 15 feet and it can take the bite or Dodge action (your choice) each turn you don't command it. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Long ago, a half-dragon trained a group of warriors to aid in her efforts to carve out an empire for herself. She failed but the esoteric techniques she taught these soldiers has been passed down from mentor to student ever since. Unlike joining other fight clubs, pugilists do not become discover these abilities due to temperament or inclination alone. Instead, dragonhearts, as these pugilists are known, dedicate themselves to learning the ancient combat techniques taught by the half-dragon would-be conqueror.

At 6th level, when use your Bloodied but Unbowed feature you can choose to exhale a 30-foot cone of elemental energy as part of the same reaction. When you do, you can choose the nature of your breath weapon which determines the type of damage dealt: acid, cold, fire, or lightning.

Each creature in the area of exhalation must make a Dexterity saving throw with a DC equal to 8 + your Constitution modifier + your proficiency bonus. Creatures who fail this saving throw take 1d12 + #$prompt_number:min=1,title=Enter Your Pugilist Level!,default=1$#|1d12 + your pugilist level damage, and half as much on a successful one.

At 11th level, when you use your Scales of War feature you also sprout wings, giving you a fly speed of 60 feet for 1 minute.

At 17th level, as an action you can exude terror to each creature of your choice within 60 feet. Chosen creatures must make a Wisdom saving throw with a DC equal to 8 + your Constitution modifier + your proficiency bonus. On a failed saving throw, the creature becomes frightened for 1 minute. A creature can repeat the saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on a success.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a long rest before you can use it again.

In your darkest hour you pleaded for the strength to take what you wanted from the world and a dread power took notice. At first, you may have relished the cathartic rush that came with channeling your dread power to claim what you felt you deserved. This pact, however, came with strings attached. In times of distress you hear the entity whispering in the back of your mind, encouraging you to indulge your most base impulses.

Starting at 6th level, you gain two eldritch invocations of your choice from among those available to the warlock class. For every two levels you have in this class, you count as having on warlock level for the purpose of meeting an eldritch invocation's prerequisites. Constitution is your spellcasting ability for any spells you gain as a result of one of these eldritch invocations, and any eldritch invocation gained this way that references your Charisma modifier uses your Strength modifier instead.

When you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the invocations you know and replace it with another invocation in which you meet the prerequisites.

At 11th Level, when you use your Dread Hand feature you can choose to grow into a towering misshapen form for one minute. When you do, your size increases by one category—from Medium to Large, for example. If there isn't enough room for you to grow to that size, you grow to the maximum possible size the space will allow. While enlarged in this way, you have advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws, your reach becomes 10 feet, and your melee weapon attacks deal 1d4 extra damage. When the minute is over, you suffer one level of exhaustion.

Starting at 17th level, you can use an action and expend 6 moxie points to attempt to execute a creature of your choice within reach by magically burrowing your hand into its body and extracting its innards. The creature must make a Dexterity saving throw (DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier). On a failure, the creature takes 100 piercing damage. On a success, the creature takes 50 piercing damage instead.

If this damage reduces the target to 0 hit points or less, it immediately dies as you rip a hole through it, creating a stomach-turning fountain of viscera. When this happens, each creature within 30 feet of you who can see you must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw (DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier) or be frightened of you for 1 minute. A creature who fails the saving throw can make the Wisdom saving throw again at the end of each of its turns, ending the frightened condition early on a success.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a long rest before you can use it again.

Most pugilists start their path in teeming cities but not all of them stay there. Pugilists in the King of Beasts fight club make their home in the wilderness and discover they are more similar to the streets of major cities than they might have guessed—might makes right in either case. This time living among the beasts of the world changes a pugilist, allowing them to tap into a virile resilience and even learn to take on the many shapes of fauna they've encountered. These pugilists often ally with druids to defend the natural world against those who would abuse it.

At 6th level, you can use a bonus action and expend a use of your Wild Shape to take on a war shape for 1 minute. When you do, choose one beast you can transform into using your Wild Shape feature.

While you are in your war shape, you combine features of your normal appearance with those of the chosen beast and you gain the following benefits for the duration:

At 11th level, when you use your Bloodied but Unbowed feature you can choose to also use this feature. If you do, you regain hit points equal to your Constitution modifier at the start of each of your turns for the next minute. This effect ends early if you are reduced to 0 hit points. You can use this feature again after you complete a long rest.

Starting at 17th level, you can use your Wild Shape feature twice, regaining both uses when you finish a short or long rest.

When you use your Wild Shape feature, you can choose to expend both uses. When you do, you can choose a beast with a challenge rating up to 5.

When you use your War Shape feature, you can choose to expend both uses. When you do, you choose up to three beasts and gain the special senses and movement speeds of each beast (using the highest of each movement speed if multiple chosen beasts have the same kind of movement speed). Additionally, the additional damage dealt by your unarmed strikes increases to 1d6.

Most pugilists are armored as heavily as they are armed—which is to say, they're not. But those of certain backgrounds, or from cultures with a heavy emphasis on metalworking such as dwarves, find they brawl better encased in armor. Pugilists in this fight club blend their metallurgical skills with their innate talent for fisticuffs, a combination that grants them scorching strikes and an ironclad resilience.

At 6th level, when a critical hit is made against you while you are wearing medium or heavy armor, you can use your reaction to gain resistance to the damage of the attack.

Starting at 11th level, you have resistance to fire damage.

In addition, when you take fire damage you can use your reaction to gain temporary hit points equal to the damage taken. You lose all temporary hit points gained from this feature at the end of your next turn.

At 17th level, when you are reduced to 0 hit points but not killed outright, you can use your reaction to drop to 1 hit point instead. When you do, you gain temporary hit points equal to twice your pugilist level + your Constitution score and you regain all expended moxie points. You cannot use this feature again until you finish a long rest.

Pugilists in the Piss & Vinegar fight club revel in their reputations as heels. Widely despised for their obscene curses and dirty tricks, these pugilists take pride in their ability to provoke and fight to win at all costs.

Starting at 6th level, you have a few tricks up your sleeve to even the odds when the going gets rough. You can each of these dirty tricks once and regain their use when you finish a short or long rest.

Starting at 11th level, your threats and mean spirited tricks pack an extra punch. When you make a Charisma (Intimidation) check, you can use your reaction and spend 1 moxie to give yourself advantage on the roll. When a creature makes a saving throw against one of your Piss & Vinegar features, you can use your reaction and spend 1 moxie to give that roll disadvantage.

Starting at 17th level, you gain the ability to offend every creature in the room with minimal effort. When you use your Salty Salute feature, you can choose to target a number of creatures within 60 feet who can see or hear you up to your level in this class, instead of a single creature. You regain 1 expended moxie point the first time each creature targeted in this way hits you with an attack before the start of your next turn.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Pugilists rise above the adversity they face. Those known as Street Saints do so with the aid of their deep and abiding faith in the gods. These pugilists have had their convictions tested and come out the other side with their righteous resolve only strengthened. They fight to make the world a better place. They fight because they believe their god has called them to. They fight because wherever corruption is allowed to exist, justice cannot flourish.

At 6th level, when you deal damage to a creature with an unarmed strike you can expend a number of hit points from your Lay on Hands feature up to your level in this class to deal additional radiant damage equal to the hit points expended. This damage is doubled if the creature is a fiend or undead. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until the start of your next turn.

At 11th level, when you use your Bloodied but Unbowed feature you can choose to also use this feature. If you do, the pool of hit points your Lay on Hands feature grants you is refilled to its maximum. You can use this feature again after you finish a long rest.

Starting at 17th level, as a bonus action on your turn you can lend your spiritual mettle to your allies. For the next minute, you and each friendly creature within 30 feet gain resistance to all damage. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Pugilists who fight in the Squared Circle know you don't have to knock an opponent senseless to get them to submit. Of course, members of the squared circle do beat their opponents senseless, they just know they don't have to.

Starting at 6th level, when you have an enemy creature grappled you gain half cover against all attacks made against you by a creature you are not grappling. When a weapon attack made by a creature you are not grappling misses you, you may use your reaction and spend 1 moxie point to have that creature make the same attack with a new roll against an enemy creature you are grappling.

At 11th level, you count as one size larger than you are for the purposes of grappling. In addition, you can move your full movement speed when you are dragging or carrying a grappled creature your size or smaller.

At 17th level, your mastery of grappling reaches its peak. While you have a creature grappled you gain advantage on all attacks against it. Additionally, when you make an unarmed strike or pugilist weapon attack against a creature you have grappled, you score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20.

Pugilists who practice the Sweet Science hit hard, fast, and often. This style is sometimes used by fighters who battle for the entertainment of the upper classes, but is just as often practiced in the backalleys and the bars by those whose next breath depends on a knockout.

At 6th level, when you use your bonus action to use the Old One-Two and hit the same creature with both attacks, you can immediately spend 1 moxie point to make an additional attack with an unarmed strike as part of that bonus action. If you hit, the creature is knocked prone in addition to taking damage as normal for your unarmed strike.

At 11th level, when you reduce damage from an attack to 0 and successfully hit an enemy creature using your Cross Counter feature you regain 1 expended moxie point.

At 17th level, when you hit with an unarmed strike or pugilist weapon you can spend 1 or more moxie points to try to knock out the opponent instead of dealing damage. Roll 3d12, plus an additional 2d12 for every moxie point spent after the first, and add your pugilist level to the result. If the total is equal to or greater than the creature's remaining hit points, it is reduced to 0 hit points.

Pugilists in the Whiskey Fist fight club are the bane of tavern owners throughout the land. There is nothing a Whiskey Fist pugilist likes more than to get a few drinks in his belly and throw down with anyone who dares to give him side eye. Even when wandering ancient ruins or traveling through the wilderness these pugilist always keep a few bottles "just in case".

Starting at 6th level, when you drink an alcoholic beverage you can use your reaction to lose a level of exhaustion. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Starting at 11th level, when you consume an alcoholic beverage you can use your reaction and spend 5 moxie points to enter a drunken frenzy for 1 minute. While in a drunken frenzy, you gain the following benefits:

Starting at 17th level, add the following benefits to your drunken frenzy.