Path of the Wrestler

Barbarians who follow the Path of the Wrestler are experts at getting up close and personal with their enemies, using their immense strength to pin them down and leave them at their mercy. They specialize in grappling, restraining,  immobilizing, and wielding their foes, rendering them helpless against the Barbarian's onslaught.

Glorious Grappler

You have spent your time discovering openings to grapple your foes, allowing you to exploit their weakness and preventing them from fleeing.

Starting at 3rd level, you gain proficiency in the Athletics skill if you don't already have it. In addition, you can now grapple creatures up to two sizes larger than you, instead of just one.

Crushing Containment

At 6th level, your ferocity for crushing your foes motivates you to grapple them by any means necessary. Utilizing your raw power to squeeze the vitality out of your victims.

While raging, you can use your bonus action to attempt to grapple a creature within 5 feet of you. In addition, while you maintain the grapple, you deal bludgeoning damage to the creature equal to your Barbarian level at the start of each of its turns.

Starting at level 10, this damage becomes magical to overcome non-magical resistance and immunity.

Pinning Precision

At 10th level, when you hit a creature with a melee attack while you have it grappled, you can attempt another Athletics (Strength) contest against the creature. On a successful grapple check, the creature is restrained until the start of your next turn. On a failed grapple check, the creature is not restrained, but remains grappled.

Savage Smackdown

At 14th level, you have become an expert at grappling and overpowering your foes. Due to this, you gain the following benefits.

- You gain expertise in the Athletics skill if you don’t have it already.
- While you are raging, you can now grapple creatures of any size.
- In addition, while you are raging, whenever you are grappling a creature that is no more than two sizes larger than you, you can use the creature as a melee weapon with the thrown property (Range 5/15). This weapon deals magical bludgeoning damage equal to your Strength modifier plus your Barbarian level to both the target and the creature grappled.

If you are proficient with improvised weapons, you are proficient with this weapon.

After using the attack action with this creature, the creature is then released from the grapple.