You trained your body to become a living weapon, devoting years of your life to relentless physical and mental discipline. Your rigorous training demanded extraordinary fortitude, forcing you to push beyond pain, exhaustion, and fear in pursuit of a simple goal: to become stronger. Whether your training was undertaken willingly or imposed upon you, the lessons it taught have become an inseparable part of who you are.
- Ability Scores: Dexterity, Strength, Wisdom.
- Feat: Tavern Brawler:
Accustomed to the rough-and-tumble fighting using whatever weapons happen to be at hand, you gain the following benefits:
- Increase your Strength or Consititution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
- You are proficient with improvised weapons.
- Your unarmed strike uses a d4 for damage.
- When you hit a creature with an unarmed strike or an improvised weapon on your turn, you can use a bonus action to attempt to grapple the target.
- Skill Proficiencies: Acrobatics, Insight
- Tool Proficiencies: Herbalism Kit
- Languages: One language of your choice
- Equipment:
- Herbalism Kit
- Quarterstaff
- Traveler’s Clothes
- Bedroll
- Waterskin
- Pouch
- 10 GP
Years of relentless physical training have taught you to view your own body and surroundings as potential weapons. Your discipline, conditioning, and understanding of combat are evident to those familiar with martial training.
Suggested Characteristics
Ideals
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Mastery. There is always another weakness to overcome and another technique to perfect. |
| 2 | Discipline. Strength without control is nothing more than recklessness. |
| 3 | Independence. I refuse to depend upon a weapon, institution, or person for my own strength. |
| 4 | Protection. My strength means little if I cannot use it to defend those without it. |
| 5 | Supremacy. Power is the only certainty in a dangerous world, and I intend to possess as much of it as possible. |
| 6 | Purpose. Training without something worth fighting for is merely vanity. |
| d8 | Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I instinctively assess every room for threats, exits, and anything that could be used as a weapon. |
| 2 | I remain calm when violence begins; panic only makes you sloppy. |
| 3 | I treat physical training as seriously as others treat eating or sleeping. |
| 4 | I have little patience for those who boast about abilities they haven't earned. |
| 5 | I rarely sit with my back toward a door. |
| 6 | I respect skill wherever I find it, even in an enemy. |
| 7 | Pain is information. I acknowledge it, learn from it, and continue. |
| 8 | I tend to demonstrate rather than explain what I'm capable of. |
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