Brutal Strike Advantage.

I understand that you need to forego Reckless Attack's advantage to reap the benefits of the effects/damage, but if the creature is prone or you have some other means to gain advantage, would you still get advantage? Or, is Brutal Strike considered an instance of imposing disadvantage on yourself, so therefore no additional outside sources of advantage could overcome it. I think this interpretation would drastically affect what sort of weapons you chose to bring, specifically thinking of the Topple mastery. Thanks! :]

Brutal Strike very explicitly says you can "forgo any Advantage". That means any advantage on the attack goes away. Any.

Brutal Strike is not considered "an instance of imposing disadvantage on yourself", and it also specifically says you can't use it if the attack has disadvantage.

Thanks, I think that does clear up any ambiguity.

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Brutal Strike very explicitly says you can "forgo any Advantage". That means any advantage on the attack goes away. Any.

 
What funny is that even with your highlight, it still doesn't clarify the sentence. The use of "any" in this sentence is actually ambiguous. It can mean "any one of them", just like it can mean "all of them".
And in every party I've been that had a Barbarian in it, the DM always ruled that "any" is meant in the sense of "any one of them".

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Brutal Strike very explicitly says you can "forgo any Advantage". That means any advantage on the attack goes away. Any.

 
What funny is that even with your highlight, it still doesn't clarify the sentence. The use of "any" in this sentence is actually ambiguous. It can mean "any one of them", just like it can mean "all of them".
And in every party I've been that had a Barbarian in it, the DM always ruled that "any" is meant in the sense of "any one of them".

That's fine as a house rule, but that isn't how advantage works in the official rules. You don't have multiple advantages; you either have advantage or you don't. To use Brutal Strike, you have to give the advantage up and not have advantage anymore.

While the sentence could be read both ways outside of the context of D&D rules, reading it the way you're describing requires you to be using the concept of advantage in a way that's contrary to the official rules.

I obviously meant "source" of Advantage and you know it. Come on...

If your enemy is prone within 5ft, that's one source. If they're restrained on top of that, that's 2. If you go Reckless, that's 3. Even if at the end of day, you either have Advantage on the roll or you don't. How all of my DMs have always interpreted "you can forgo any Advantage" is that you can reduce that 3 to a 2, meaning that you still have Advantage on the roll if there is no source of Disadvantage to turn it into a straight roll.

I'm not saying this is the only possible interpretation of this rule, but it certainly is a valid one, and not necessarily a "house-rule".