Fighter When you reach certain levels in this class, the size of
your Brawler dice increases: at 5th level (d6), 11th level
Tavern Brawler
The taste of ale-soaked floorboards is a familiar flavour
to Tavern Brawlers. Whether they’ve been thrown to the
ground in a glorious takedown, blocked an improvised
weapon with their teeth, or tackled a foe into a pile of
flailing limbs, Tavern Brawlers cherish the memory of
every scuffle that hasn’t been knocked out of their brains.
Though most inns and pubs decry barroom brawls as
unnecessarily damaging and expensive affairs, celebrated
carpenter and philosopher Lottaw Ood proposed that
without the constant kerfuffles, woodworkers and the en-
tire lumber industry might collapse. In fact, more shrewd
carpentry guilds have opened “Brawl-Inns”; taverns with
dedicated brawling areas and a microtransaction econ-
omy that encourages fighters to purchase chairs with
which to clout their fellow patrons.
Barroom Wrestler
3rd-Level Tavern Brawler Feature
Brawler Dice. You’ve learned techniques that are fueled
by special dice called Brawler dice, which are d4s. You
have a number of these dice equal to twice your profi-
ciency bonus. You regain all your expended Brawler dice
when you finish a long rest.
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(d8), and 17th level (d10).
Saving Throws. Some of your techniques require your
target to make a saving throw to resist the technique’s
effects. The saving throw DC is calculated as follows:
Technique save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus +
your Strength modifier
Brawler Techniques. The techniques below use your
Brawler dice. Creatures more than one size larger than
you automatically succeed on any saving throws or con-
tested checks against these techniques’ effects.
Bind. When you make an unarmed strike with a free
hand against a creature you are grappling, you can
expend one Brawler die to force an additional con-
tested grappling check instead of an attack roll. On
a success, you deal the strike’s normal damage plus
additional damage equal to one roll of your Brawler
die and the creature is restrained until the grapple
ends or you use one of the hands you have grappling
the target for something else.
Chokehold. While you have a humanoid restrained
(for example, by your Bind technique) you can use
an action to expend one Brawler die and attempt to
cut off the creature’s blood supply. The creature must
make a Constitution saving throw. On a failure, it
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 takes damage equal to two rolls of your Brawler die
plus your Strength modifier and immediately begins
to be strangled until it is no longer restrained by
you. On a failure, it takes half as much damage and
doesn’t begin to be strangled.
A creature that is being strangled remains conscious
for a number of rounds equal to its Constitution
modifier (minimum 1), and falls unconscious at the
start of its next turn. A creature that is made uncon-
scious in this manner regains consciousness if it takes
any damage. If you continue to choke a creature
beyond this point, it begins suffocating. If you
release the creature, it remains unconscious for 1d20
+ 10 minutes.
Smash. When you hit a creature with a melee weapon
attack with an improvised weapon, you can expend
one Brawler die to deal additional bludgeoning,
piercing, or slashing damage (GM’s decision) equal
to one roll of your Brawler die. The object takes an
equal amount of damage, possibly destroying it.
Takedown. When you make an unarmed strike
against a creature you are grappling, you can expend
one Brawler die to force an additional contested
grappling check instead of an attack roll. On a
success, you deal the strike’s normal damage plus
additional damage equal to one roll of your Brawler
die as you throw the target to the ground where it
lands prone.
Inn-habitor
3rd-Level Tavern Brawler Feature
Your familiarity with patrons of bars and inns has left
you adept at sensing their motives. You have advantage
on Insight, Intimidation, and Persuasion checks against
creatures that have been drinking.
Tavern Tussler
3rd-Level Tavern Brawler Feature
You’ve learned to use whatever weapons might be close at
hand, often surprising foes with your ingenuity. You are
proficient with improvised weapons and your unarmed
strikes and improvised weapon attacks can deal damage
equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier on a hit. This
damage die increases when you reach 5th level (1d6),
11th level (1d8), and 17th level (1d10) in this class.
Improviser. You can pick up an object within your
reach as part of the attack you make with that object. In
addition, the first time you make an attack with an im-
provised weapon you picked up on that same turn, that
attack scores a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20.
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Strangulation & Suffocation
Strangulation is a new concept introduced for
this subclass and acts like a less extreme version
of suffocating. In both cases, when a creature be-
gins to be strangled or begins suffocating, it can
act as normal for a number of rounds equal to its
Constitution modifier (minimum of 1 round). At
the start of the creature’s turn after this period
has elapsed, the creature falls unconscious.
The difference between being strangled and suf-
focating is that when a suffocating creature falls
unconscious it also drops to 0 hit points and is
dying, and can’t regain hit points or be stabilized
until it can breathe again, whereas a strangled
creature remains unconscious for 1d20 + 10 min-
utes, and wakes if it takes any damage.
Chokehold Example. On initiative count 10 of
round 1, the Tavern Brawler (TB), who has a thug
restrained, uses the chokehold technique on the
thug. The thug fails its Constitution saving throw
and begins to be strangled. Because the thug has
a +2 Constitution modifier, it has 2 rounds to act
before it falls unconscious. On initiative count 15
of rounds 2 and 3, the thug tries and fails to break
the TB’s grapple, meaning it stays restrained and
continues to be strangled. On initiative count 15
of round 4, the thug falls unconscious at the start
of its turn and immediately begins suffocating.
If the TB continues to maintain the grapple and
thus keep the thug restrained, the strangulation
continues. On initiative count 15 at the start of
round 6, the thug would succumb to suffocation,
drop to 0 hit points, and begin dying.
Twisting Grapples
7th-Level Tavern Brawler Feature
You can attempt to grapple a creature as a bonus action
on your turn, and you have advantage on attack rolls
you make against creatures you are grappling. In addi-
tion, when you successfully apply the grappled condition
to a creature, you can choose to painfully twist, dealing
bludgeoning damage to the creature equal to a roll of
your unarmed strike die plus your Strength modifier.
 Uncanny Technique Wrecking Ball. When you move at least 10 feet di-
10th-Level Tavern Brawler Feature rectly towards a creature immediately before making
an attack as part of the Attack action, you can forgo
You can add double your proficiency bonus to contested the attack to expend one Brawler die as you throw
Strength (Athletics) checks you make. When you make your entire body at your target. Make a Strength
an ability check to grapple a creature or to escape a grap- (Athletics) check contested by the target’s Dexter-
ple, you can treat a d20 roll of 9 or lower as a 10. ity (Acrobatics) or Strength (Athletics) check (its
choice). If you succeed, the target takes bludgeoning
Tavern Regular
damage equal to two rolls of your Brawler die plus
15th-Level Tavern Brawler Feature
your Strength modifier, and you both land prone.
Years spent anticipating conflict in inns and taverns has
given you a preternatural danger sense. You have advan-
tage on initiative rolls, and you gain proficiency in the Weapons for Tavern Brawlers
Insight skill. If you have this proficiency from another
For weapons that can augment a Tavern Brawl-
source, you can add twice your proficiency bonus to
checks you make using that skill. er’s arsenal, check out claws, knuckle dusters,
and spiked cesti in Chapter XX. To give a Tavern
As a bonus action on your turn, you can make a
Brawler access to magical damage, you can give
Wisdom (Insight) check against a creature you can see.
+1/2/3 variants of any of these weapons; reskin
On a success, you learn the creature’s disposition towards
you, such as whether it means you harm, views you as a the magical effects of other items (such as a
friend, or wants something from you. flame tongue) to apply to these weapons; or give
them the common-rarity brawler’s wraps (see be-
Grandstand Performer low) which transform the damage from grapples,
18th-Level Tavern Brawler Feature unarmed strikes, and improvised weapons into
When you roll initiative and have no Brawler dice re- magical damage.
maining, you regain two Brawler dice.
You learn new techniques that use your brawler dice.
Piledriver. When you have a creature restrained (for Brawler’s Wraps
example, by your Bind technique) and take the Wondrous item, common
Attack action, you can forgo two of your attacks While you wear these wraps, whenever you deal bludg-
to expend one Brawler die in a complex crushing eoning, piercing, or slashing damage with an unarmed
manoeuvre. The creature must make a Dexterity strike, improvised weapon, or a technique that uses
saving throw. On a failure, it takes bludgeoning Brawler dice, that damage is magical.
damage equal to two rolls of your Brawler die plus
your Strength modifier and is stunned until the end
of your next turn. On a success, it takes half as much
damage and isn’t stunned.
Throw. When you have a creature grappled and take
the Attack action, you can forgo one of your attacks
to expend one Brawler die and force the creature to
make a Strength saving throw as you attempt to
launch it. On a failure, you throw the creature hori-
zontally away from you in a straight line up to 30
feet if it is a smaller size category than you, 20 feet
if it is the same size as you, or 10 feet if it is one size
category larger than you. The creature collides with
the first solid object or creature in its path, causing
both targets to take bludgeoning damage equal
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to one roll of your Brawler die plus your Strength

modifier.

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