I'm making a tavern brawler barbarian for a friend to play in an upcoming campaign. I'm looking for suggestions of feats and multiclassing for the character. He's a variant human taking the Tavern Brawler Feat.
Currently playing a Goliath tavern brawler barbarian. Next session I am going to fashion myself a harpoon to pull creatures in for the pummeling. As a Goliath bear barbarian my push, pull, drag strength is off the charts so I can yank huge creatures. 1d6 piercing dmg 20/60 range. Dc 12 save or be grappled by the weapon. Str vs str contest to pull 20 ft as bonus action. Enemy can pull out harpoon on a dc 12 str check with additional 1d6 dmg.
My barbarian for adventurers league is like that. I do wish that there were more options for barbarian builds where the character is more of a city dweller. Sort of "Street thug turned Adventurer".
My barb in one of my campaigns has the street urchin background and very much fits the street thug image you are talking about. Basically he was sold into slavery at a young age and was used as slave labor for a crime syndicate, being that he was a goliath they used him as their muscle.
When not adventuring, My barbarian collects protection money for the Zentarium. And he does adventures to pay for the school fees for his son, who is attending a mages college (alla hogwarts)
Come Xanathar's, I'm making a Barbarian Zealot (human variant with tavern brawler and athletics). His back story is going to be a criminal that used to be a weapons smuggler (exposure to a wide variety of jerry-rigged weapons and cultural variations of weapons is the explanation for improvised weapon proficiency). One day he got burnt on a bad deal where the buyers were cultists of Bhaal. In an attempt to bless the weapons they bought, they tried to make him a sacrifice to Bhaal. What did they do specifically? Threw him in a cellar with a starving mastiff. Not even meaning to, he swore to Hoar under his breath and fought for his life. In his first true rage he went berserk and killed the mastiff. Then he broke through the cellar door, and killed the cultists (quite possibly doing so by using other cultists). Once his rage cleared he was kind of lost for a bit until an old criminal contact/friend helped him get back on his feet. Going forward, he's going to slowly realise that his rages are the product of Hoar, God of revenge. Especially now that's he's decided to hit the road as an adventurer (with a healthy loathing is murder cults).
I'm making a tavern brawler barbarian for a friend to play in an upcoming campaign. I'm looking for suggestions of feats and multiclassing for the character. He's a variant human taking the Tavern Brawler Feat.
Currently playing a Goliath tavern brawler barbarian. Next session I am going to fashion myself a harpoon to pull creatures in for the pummeling. As a Goliath bear barbarian my push, pull, drag strength is off the charts so I can yank huge creatures. 1d6 piercing dmg 20/60 range. Dc 12 save or be grappled by the weapon. Str vs str contest to pull 20 ft as bonus action. Enemy can pull out harpoon on a dc 12 str check with additional 1d6 dmg.
Rogue or bard to get expertise in Athletics if you are going to multiclass.
My barbarian for adventurers league is like that. I do wish that there were more options for barbarian builds where the character is more of a city dweller. Sort of "Street thug turned Adventurer".
My barb in one of my campaigns has the street urchin background and very much fits the street thug image you are talking about. Basically he was sold into slavery at a young age and was used as slave labor for a crime syndicate, being that he was a goliath they used him as their muscle.
I've got a monk subclass that's pretty similar to what you're talking about, if you don't mind homebrew and switching to primarily monk. https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/dungeons-dragons-discussion/homebrew-house-rules/3019-commissions-for-homebrew-d-d-5e?comment=33
(Unarmed Rage is the theme I'm seeing here, by the way.)
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That's a cool backstory!
When not adventuring, My barbarian collects protection money for the Zentarium. And he does adventures to pay for the school fees for his son, who is attending a mages college (alla hogwarts)
Come Xanathar's, I'm making a Barbarian Zealot (human variant with tavern brawler and athletics). His back story is going to be a criminal that used to be a weapons smuggler (exposure to a wide variety of jerry-rigged weapons and cultural variations of weapons is the explanation for improvised weapon proficiency). One day he got burnt on a bad deal where the buyers were cultists of Bhaal. In an attempt to bless the weapons they bought, they tried to make him a sacrifice to Bhaal. What did they do specifically? Threw him in a cellar with a starving mastiff. Not even meaning to, he swore to Hoar under his breath and fought for his life. In his first true rage he went berserk and killed the mastiff. Then he broke through the cellar door, and killed the cultists (quite possibly doing so by using other cultists). Once his rage cleared he was kind of lost for a bit until an old criminal contact/friend helped him get back on his feet. Going forward, he's going to slowly realise that his rages are the product of Hoar, God of revenge. Especially now that's he's decided to hit the road as an adventurer (with a healthy loathing is murder cults).