Brawler

Bar-fighter and pugilist.

The Brawler is the person who breaks your arm with a table leg and then uses the table leg on your partner. In the Nine's domain, every checkpoint has a weapons scanner and every facility has an armoury lock. The Brawler does not care. A Brawler's body is the weapon; everything else is ammunition. The Brawler ends the argument in the room the argument started in, with whatever the room provides. The Kadiss grid tracks firearms registration, ammunition purchases, and blade permits. It does not track fists. This makes Brawlers uniquely suited to work in the corporate Core, where the polite fiction of unarmed civilian life is enforced by metal detectors and the Brawler is the only person in the room who is actually dangerous. They operate on the Combat chassis (d10 HD, full BAB, Fort good, Ref/Will poor) because the fighting style demands absorbing punishment to deliver it. Light and medium armour -- heavy plate restricts the grappling that is the Brawler's primary control Mechanic. Prime requisites: STR and CON.

Rules Reference

Field	Value
Armor Allowance	Light, Medium
Bab Tier	full
Base Skill Points	4
Hd	d10
Hd Sides	10
Max Level	20
Primary Abilities	STR, CON
Prime Requisites	STR, CON
Save Tiers / Fortitude	good
Save Tiers / Reflex	poor
Save Tiers / Will	poor
Weapon Allowance	Unarmed, Improvised weapons, Pistol, Knife

Notes

Archetype Niche: The Brawler is the party's close-quarters controller. Brawler's Grip turns grappling from a niche tactic into a primary combat strategy -- the Brawler can lock down and damage any enemy, regardless of size. Improvised Arsenal means the Brawler is never unarmed: a chair, a pipe, a bulkhead panel, all become legitimate weapons. Pain Tolerance provides passive durability that scales with CON, making the Brawler the tankiest unarmoured fighter. The Brawler's niche is controlling the enemy that no one else can hold -- the big thing that needs to be pinned down while the party kills it.

Multiclass Notes: Brawlers can multiclass with Soldier and Blademaster archetypes. Non-human brawlers use simultaneous multiclassing rules.

Level Table

Scrapper

Field	Value
bab	1
fortitude	2
level	1
reflex	0
skillPoints	16
title	Scrapper
will	0
xp	0

Bruiser

Field	Value
bab	2
fortitude	3
level	2
reflex	0
skillPoints	4
title	Bruiser
will	0
xp	2000

Brawler

Field	Value
bab	3
fortitude	3
level	3
reflex	1
skillPoints	4
title	Brawler
will	1
xp	4000

Pit Fighter

Field	Value
bab	4
fortitude	4
level	4
reflex	1
skillPoints	4
title	Pit Fighter
will	1
xp	8000

Wrecker

Field	Value
bab	5
fortitude	4
level	5
reflex	1
skillPoints	4
title	Wrecker
will	1
xp	16000

Bone-Breaker

Field	Value
bab	6
fortitude	5
level	6
reflex	2
skillPoints	4
title	Bone-Breaker
will	2
xp	32000

Arena Champion

Field	Value
bab	7
fortitude	5
level	7
reflex	2
skillPoints	4
title	Arena Champion
will	2
xp	64000

Iron Jaw

Field	Value
bab	8
fortitude	6
level	8
reflex	2
skillPoints	4
title	Iron Jaw
will	2
xp	125000

Grand Brawler

Field	Value
bab	9
fortitude	6
level	9
reflex	3
skillPoints	4
title	Grand Brawler
will	3
xp	250000

Titan Fist

Field	Value
bab	10
fortitude	7
level	10
reflex	3
skillPoints	4
title	Titan Fist
will	3
xp	500000

High Titan Fist

Field	Value
bab	11
fortitude	7
level	11
reflex	3
skillPoints	4
title	High Titan Fist
will	3
xp	750000

War-Hulk

Field	Value
bab	12
fortitude	8
level	12
reflex	4
skillPoints	4
title	War-Hulk
will	4
xp	1000000

High War-Hulk

Field	Value
bab	13
fortitude	8
level	13
reflex	4
skillPoints	4
title	High War-Hulk
will	4
xp	1250000

Fist Lord

Field	Value
bab	14
fortitude	9
level	14
reflex	4
skillPoints	4
title	Fist Lord
will	4
xp	1500000

High Fist Lord

Field	Value
bab	15
fortitude	9
level	15
reflex	5
skillPoints	4
title	High Fist Lord
will	5
xp	1750000

Combat Master

Field	Value
bab	16
fortitude	10
level	16
reflex	5
skillPoints	4
title	Combat Master
will	5
xp	2000000

High Combat Master

Field	Value
bab	17
fortitude	10
level	17
reflex	5
skillPoints	4
title	High Combat Master
will	5
xp	2250000

Iron God

Field	Value
bab	18
fortitude	11
level	18
reflex	6
skillPoints	4
title	Iron God
will	6
xp	2500000

High Iron God

Field	Value
bab	19
fortitude	11
level	19
reflex	6
skillPoints	4
title	High Iron God
will	6
xp	2750000

Supreme Brawler

Field	Value
bab	20
fortitude	12
level	20
reflex	6
skillPoints	4
title	Supreme Brawler
will	6
xp	3000000

Special Abilities

Brawler's Grip

Field	Value
level	1
name	Brawler's Grip

description: The Brawler's unarmed strikes deal 1d6 + STR damage (increasing to 1d8 at level 5, 1d10 at level 10, 2d6 at level 15, 2d8 at level 20). The Brawler gains the Brawler feat and Improved Grapple for free. When grappling, the Brawler may deal unarmed damage as part of the grapple check (no separate action required). At level 4, the Brawler can grapple creatures one size category larger at no penalty. At level 9, two sizes larger. At level 14, the Brawler can grapple creatures of any size. The size progression is the Brawler's real escalation: at level 14, a person can physically restrain something that should not be restrainable by a human body. The Nine have found this useful more than once.

Improvised Arsenal

Field	Value
level	3
name	Improvised Arsenal

description: The Brawler treats any object that can be held as a weapon with which they are proficient. Improvised weapons deal damage based on size and material: small objects 1d4 (a mug, a data-slate), medium 1d6 (a pipe, a chair leg), large 1d8 (a fire extinguisher, a tool case), and structural objects 2d6 (a bulkhead panel ripped free, a cargo strut). The Brawler may also throw improvised weapons with a 20-foot range increment. At level 7, the Brawler may wield a two-handed improvised weapon in one hand. At level 12, improvised weapons score a critical hit on a natural 19-20. In a controlled environment where weapons are confiscated, the Brawler is the only person who is never unarmed.

Pain Tolerance

Field	Value
level	5
name	Pain Tolerance

description: The Brawler gains Damage Reduction equal to half their CON modifier (minimum 1) against non-lethal damage, unarmed strikes, and grapple damage. While grappling or at half HP or below, the Brawler gains +2 to Fortitude saves and cannot be stunned or dazed. At level 10, the DR applies to all physical damage (still half CON mod). At level 15, the Brawler is immune to pain-based effects (including torture, pain-inducing psionics, and nerve agents) and cannot be knocked unconscious by non-lethal damage. Corp interrogation teams have learned the hard way that a high-level Brawler does not break. The body has been trained past the point where pain is information; it is just noise.