Pugilist, the Bamstacks Variant

# The Pugilist, the Bamstacks Variant
Arrows rain down around her as she runs towards the hobgoblins. Desperate to close the distance, the half-orc fights through the sting of a dozen cuts to reach her foes. The pain only makes her stronger. As she descends on the snarling pack she swings wildly, knocking several hobgoblins off their feet and sending the rest scattering before her.

The human braces himself for the impact as the orc rushes him. Then the monster makes a mistake, telegraphing its next move, and that’s all the opening the human needs. He ducks beneath the orc’s wide swing then raises both hands high above his head and brings them down on the orc’s back, forcing the brute to the ground.

Wherever they come from, pugilists live a rough and tumble life that leaves them full of determination and reckless, either from overconfidence or desperation. In a fight they can channel this strength of character to dig deep and fight off foes with greater strength of numbers, arms, or armor than anyone else would think possible.

Note, this variant is a modified version of Benjamin Huffman's Pugilist class found [here](https://www.dmsguild.com/product/184921/the-Pugilist-Class).

## Class Features
As a Pugilist, you gain the following class features.

#### Hit Points
- **Hit Dice:** 1d10 per pugilist level
- **Hit Points at 1st Level:** 10 + your Constitution modifier
- **Hit Points at Higher Levels:** 1d10 (or 6) + your Constitution modifier per pugilist level after 1st

#### Proficiencies
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- **Armor:** Light armor
- **Weapons:** Simple weapons, improvised weapons, whip, hand crossbows
- **Tools:** Your choice of one artisan’s tools, gaming set, or thieves’ tools
- **Saving Throws:** Strength and Constitution
- **Skills:** Choose two skills from Acrobatics, Athletics, Deception, Intimidation, Perception, Sleight of Hand, and Stealth.

#### Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

- *(a)* leather armor or *(b)* any simple weapons
- *(a)* a dungeoneer's pack, *(b)* an explorer's pack
- *(a)* a set of artisan's tools, *(b)* a gaming set, or *(c)* thieves' tools

Alternatively, you can roll 3d4 x 10 gp and buy your starting equipment.

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##### The Pugilist
| Level | Proficiency Bonus | Fisticuffs | Moxie Points | Features |
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| 1st | +2 | 1d6 | — | Fisticuffs, Iron Chin |
| 2nd | +2 | 1d6 | 2 | Moxie, Street Smart |
| 3rd | +2  | 1d6 | 3 | Bloodied but Unbowed, Fight Club |
| 4th | +2  | 1d6 | 4 | Ability Score Improvement, Dig Deep |
| 5th | +3  | 1d8 | 5 | Extra Attack, Haymaker |
| 6th | +3  | 1d8 | 6 | Fight Club feature, Moxie-Fueled Fists |
| 7th | +3  | 1d8 | 7 | Fancy Footwork, Shake it Off |
| 8th | +3  | 1d8 | 8 | Ability Score Improvement |
| 9th | +4  | 1d8 | 9 | Down but Not Out |
| 10th | +4  | 1d8 | 10 | School of Hard Knocks |
| 11th | +4  | 1d10 | 11 | Fight Club feature |
| 12th | +4  | 1d10 | 12 | Ability Score Improvement |
| 13th | +5  | 1d10 | 13 | Rabble Rouser |
| 14th | +5  | 1d10 | 14 | Unbreakable |
| 15th | +5  | 1d10 | 15 | Herculean |
| 16th | +5  | 1d10 | 16 | Ability Score Improvement |
| 17th | +6  | 1d12 | 17 | Fight Club feature |
| 18th | +6  | 1d12 | 18 | Fighting Spirit |
| 19th | +6  | 1d12 | 19 | Ability Score Improvement |
| 20th | +6  | 1d12 | 20 | Peak Physical Condition |

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### Pugilist Multiclassing
Pugilists follow all the normal rules for multiclassing. The following tables function as additions to those listed on page 163 and 164 of the Player’s Handbook.

If your group uses the optional rule on multiclassing in the Player’s Handbook, here’s what you need to know if you choose pugilist as one of your classes.

***Ability Score Minimum.*** As a multiclass character, you must have at least a Strength and Constitution score of 13 to take a level in this class, or to take a level in another class if you are already a pugilist.

***Proficiencies Gained.*** If pugilist isn’t your initial class, here are the proficiencies you gain when you take your first level as a pugilist: Light armor, improvised weapons

### Fisticuffs
At 1st level, your years of fighting in back alleys and  taverns have given you mastery over combat styles that use unarmed strikes and pugilist weapons, which are simple melee weapons without the two-handed property, whips, and improvised weapons. You may not use the finesse property of a weapon while using it as a pugilist weapon. You gain the following benefits while you are unarmed or using only pugilist weapons and you are wearing light or no armor and not using a shield:

* You can roll a d6 in place of the normal damage of your unarmed strike or pugilist weapon. This die changes as you gain pugilist levels, as shown in the Fisticuffs column on the Pugilist table.
* When you use the Attack action with an unarmed strike or a pugilist weapon on your turn, you can make one unarmed strike or grapple as a bonus action.

### Iron Chin
Beginning at 1st level, while you are wearing light or no armor and not wielding a shield, your AC equals 12 + your Constitution modifier.

### Moxie
Starting at 2nd level, your experience laying the beatdown on others has given you a moxie you can channel in the midst of battle. This swagger is represented by a number of moxie points. Your pugilist level determines the maximum number of points you have, as shown in the Moxie Points column of the Pugilist table.

You can spend these points to fuel various moxie features. You start knowing three such features: Brace Up, The Old One-Two, and Stick and Move. You learn more moxie features as you gain levels in this class. You regain all expended moxie points when you complete a short or long rest.

#### Brace Up
You can use a bonus action and spend 1 moxie point to brace for attacks. Roll your fisticuffs die + your pugilist level + your Constitution modifier and gain that many temporary hit points.

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#### The Old One-Two
Immediately after you take the Attack action on your turn, you can spend 1 moxie point to make two unarmed strikes as a bonus action.

#### Stick and Move
You can use a bonus action and expend 1 moxie point to make a shove attack or take the Dash action.

### Street Smart
Beginning at 2nd level, carousing, shadowboxing, and sparring all count as light activity for the purposes of resting for you. Additionally, once you have caroused in a settlement for 8 hours or more, you know all public locations in the city as if you were born and raised there and you cannot be lost by non-magical means while within the city.

### Bloodied But Unbowed
Starting at 3rd level, when you take damage that reduces you to half your maximum hit points or less, you can use your reaction to gain temporary hit points equal to your pugilist level + your Constitution modifier and you regain all expended moxie points. You cannot use this feature again until you finish a short or long rest.

### Fight Club
Starting at 3rd level, you choose a fight club that best exemplifies your style, all of which are detailed at the end of the class description. Your fight club grants you features at 3rd level and again at 6th, 11th, and 17th level.

### Ability Score Improvement
When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature.

### Dig Deep
Starting at 4th level, you discover a strength inside you that can’t be broken. As a bonus action, you gain resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage for one minute. At the end of that minute you gain a level of exhaustion.

### Extra Attack
Beginning at 5th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

### Haymaker
Starting at 5th level, before you make an attack that does not already have disadvantage, you can declare you are swinging wild haymakers. You make all weapon attack rolls until the end of this turn with disadvantage and when you deal damage with a pugilist weapon or an unarmed strike you do not roll for the weapon’s damage die, but use the maximum die result instead.

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### Moxie-Fueled Fists
Starting at 6th level, your unarmed strikes count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to non-magical attacks and damage.

### Fancy Footwork
At 7th level, you gain proficiency in Dexterity saving throws.

### Shake It Off
Starting at 7th level, you can use your action to end one effect on yourself that is causing you to be charmed or frightened.

### Down But Not Out
At 9th level, when you use your Bloodied But Unbowed feature you can choose to also use this feature. If you do, you add your proficiency bonus to your damage with unarmed attacks and pugilist weapons for the next minute. You can use this feature again after you complete a long rest.

### School of Hard Knocks
By 10th level, you’ve graduated top of the class at the school of hard knocks and you took most of them on the head. You have resistance to psychic damage and gain advantage on saving throws against effects that would make you stunned or unconscious.

### Rabble Rouser
Starting at 13th level, word of your exploits travels quickly in cities and other settlements. Once you have taken a long rest by carousing in a settlement, you gain advantage on all Charisma (Persuasion) and Charisma (Intimidation) rolls made against the people who live there.

### Unbreakable
Starting at 14th level, you gain advantage on Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution saving throws. Additionally, whenever you make a saving throw and fail, you can spend 1 moxie point to reroll it and take the second result.

### Herculean
At 15th level, your carrying capacity is doubled, and when you deal damage with a melee weapon or unarmed strike to an inanimate object that damage is doubled. Your standing jump distance is the same as your running start jump distance.

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### Fighting Spirit
Starting at 18th level, when you have 4 levels of exhaustion or fewer and are reduced to 0 hit points, you regain half of your maximum hit points, half of your maximum moxie points, and gain a level of exhaustion. You cannot use this feature again until you finish a long rest.

### Peak Physical Condition
At 20th level, you gain 4 points you can split between your Strength and Constitution. Your ability score maximum for these scores are now 24. Additionally, when you take a long rest you recover 2 levels of exhaustion instead of 1 and you regain all your expended hit dice instead of half your expended hit dice.

## Fight Clubs
Despite the name, fight clubs are not formal fraternities or sororities, but collections of pugilists who, by training or happenstance, share a similar style. In some D&D worlds, fight clubs can tell you a lot about where a person comes from, while in others there are representatives of many fighting styles in all metropolitan areas.

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<a href="#Arena Royale">Arena Royale</a>
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<a href="#Bloodhound Bruisers">Bloodhound Bruisers</a>
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<a href="#Dog & Hound">Dog & Hound</a>
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<a href="#Hand of Dread">Hand of Dread</a>
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<a href="#Piss & Vinegar">Piss & Vinegar</a>
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<a href="#Squared Circle">Squared Circle</a>
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<a href="#Sweet Science">Sweet Science</a>

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<h3 id="Arena Royale">Arena Royale</h3>

Pugilists in the Arena Royale fight club travel the world earning their keep as equal parts performer and gladiator. Whether performing in staged physical competitions, or fighting it out in unscripted brawls, pugilists in the Arena Royale care as much about the theatrics of a fight as they do its outcome. Pugilists in this fight club also care deeply about their reputation and work to build up local and regional legends about  their performing personas.

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#### Bonus Proficiency
*3rd-level Arena Royale feature*
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You gain proficiency in the Performance skill, if you don’t have it already. If you do, you gain proficiency in your choice of the Intimidation or Persuasion skill.

#### Persona Libre
*3rd-level Arena Royale feature*
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You create an alternate persona that you can adopt or discard as a bonus action on your turn. When you create an alternate persona you should give the persona a striking name as well as some physical signifier (such as a mask, colorful cape, or another prominent idiosyncratic feature). Unless you tell a creature, or the creature sees you adopt your persona, they do not know you and the adopted persona are the same person.

Additionally, you have a pool of persona points equal to 3 + your Charisma modifier (minimum 1). When you use an ability that costs moxie points, you can spend persona points instead. In addition, before you make a Charisma ability check you can spend a persona point to add your Strength modifier to the result. You can only use persona points while you have adopted your persona. You regain all expended persona points when you finish a long rest.

#### High Flyer
*3rd-level Arena Royale feature*
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You learn to imitate the high flying strikes of predatory birds. Once per turn, if you make a long jump of or fall at least 10 feet and then make an unarmed strike or pugilist weapon attack against a creature at the end of that distance, the attack deals an extra 1d6 damage. For each additional 10 ft. of distance beyond that, the attack deals an additional 1d6. When you make an attack at the end of a fall, you hit the ground, land prone, and take fall damage as normal

#### Work the Crowd
*6th-level Arena Royale feature*
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While you have adopted your alternate persona, you can use your action to inspire your choice of fear or adoration in those nearby. When you do, all creatures within 30 feet who can see you must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw (DC 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier) or be charmed, if you chose adoration, or frightened if you chose fear. This effect lasts for one minute. Each time a creature takes damage from you or one of your allies it can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on a success. You can use this feature again after you finish a long rest.

#### High Flyer
*11th-level Arena Royale feature*
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Your base movement increases by 10 feet, your jump distance is doubled, and you can use a bonus action on your turn to take the Dash action.

#### Signature Move
*17th-level Arena Royale feature*
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You create a signature move that you can use while you have adopted your alternate persona. Give your signature move a name and a description. You can replace one of your unarmed attacks or attacks with a pugilist weapon on your turn with this signature move.

When you use your signature move, you can jump in any direction up to your movement speed, make an attack roll with advantage against a creature in your reach and, if you hit, the attack is a critical and the creature is stunned until the end of your next turn.

If you hit with your signature move, you must finish a long rest before you can use it again. If you miss with your signature move, you regain the use of it after 1 minute.

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<h3 id="Bloodhound Bruisers">Bloodhound Bruisers</h3>

Pugilists in the Bloodhound Bruisers fight club are notorious for looking for trouble and finding it every time. Members of this fight club are highly observant of character traits and physical evidence and can form an almost supernatural connection to the cities they live in. Most use these abilities to become urban defenders of the downtrodden but others lend their talents to less savory organizations.

#### Ever Vigilant
*3rd-level Bloodhound Bruisers feature*
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You have advantage on initiative rolls. During the first round of combat, you have advantage on attack rolls against creatures who haven’t acted yet.

#### Detective Work
*3rd-level Bloodhound Bruisers feature*
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You gain proficiency with two of the following skills of your choice: Insight, Investigation, or Perception. In addition, when you make an Intelligence (Investigation), Wisdom (Insight), or Wisdom (Perception) ability check you can spend 1 moxie point to gain advantage on that ability check.

#### Scrap Like A Sleuth
*6th-level Bloodhound Bruisers feature*
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You can use a bonus action and expend 2 moxie points to hone in on the idiosyncrasies and bad habits of an enemy you can see within 30 feet. When you do, you have advantage on weapon attacks against the creature and you add your proficiency bonus to your AC against attacks made by that creature. These effects continue for 1 minute or until you use this feature again.

#### Heart of the City
*11th-level Bloodhound Bruisers feature*
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When you take a long rest in a settlement, you can choose to become familiar with the settlement. When you use this feature again, you replace your previous familiar settlement with the current one. You gain the following benefits while in a familiar settlement:
* You cannot be surprised and you add your proficiency bonus to your initiative.
* You have darkvision to a range of 120 feet.
* When you make an ability check using the Insight, Investigation, or Perception skills that adds your proficiency bonus, add twice your proficiency bonus instead.
* You cannot be lost by any means.
* When you are not in combat, you can travel between any two points in the settlement twice as fast as your speed would normally allow.

#### Eyes Wide Open
*17th-level Bloodhound Bruisers feature*
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You can use a bonus action and spend 1 moxie point to open your senses to your surroundings for 1 minute. During this time, you have advantage on saving throws against being blinded or deafened and have truesight out to a distance of 30 feet.

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<h3 id="Dog & Hound">Dog & Hound</h3>

You’ve never had a friend you could rely on that walked on two legs. Lucky for you, you’ve got the best four-legged friend a body could ask for. Pugilists in the Dog & Hound fight club are as faithful to their canine companions as their canine companions are to them.

#### Bonus Proficiency
When you choose this fight club at 3rd level, you gain proficiency with the Animal Handling skill if you don’t already have it. If you do, you gain proficiency in your choice of the Perception or Survival skill.

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#### Brawler's Best Friend
*3rd-level Dog & Hound feature*
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You gain a hound that accompanies you on your adventures and fights alongside you. Your hound can be any breed of dog or similar canine creature, but uses the statistics of a wolf (found in appendix A of the Monster Manual). You add your proficiency bonus to your hound’s AC, saving throws, attack rolls, and damage rolls.

For each level you gain after 3rd, your hound gains an additional d8 hit die and increases its hit points accordingly.

You can use a bonus action on each of your turns to verbally command your hound to take the Attack, Dash, Disengage, Dodge, or Help action that turn. It does not have its own turn unless you are incapacitated or absent.

If you are incapacitated or absent, the hound acts on its own (continuing to act on your turn, if you are incapacitated), focusing on protecting you and itself. The hound never requires your command to use its reaction, such as when making an opportunity attack.

If your hound dies, you can obtain a new one by spending 8 hours bonding with a canine animal that isn’t hostile to you.

#### Mutt With Moxie
*3rd-level Dog & Hound feature*
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You share everything with your faithful hound: food, shelter, even moxie. When you use certain moxie abilities, your hound gains a benefit as well.

***Brace Up.*** When you gain temporary hit points as a result of using your Brace Up moxie ability, your hound gains the same number of temporary hit points.

***The Old One-Two.*** When you use your The Old One-Two moxie ability, your hound can make one or both attacks instead of you.

***Stick and Move.*** When you use your Stick and Move moxie ability, your hound can take the Dash action.

#### Arcanine Bite
*6th-level Dog & Hound feature*
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Your hound’s attacks count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to non-magical attacks and damage.

#### Coordinated Attack
*6th-level Dog & Hound feature*
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You and your canine companion form a more potent fighting team. When you use the Attack action on your turn, if your hound can see you, it can use its reaction to make a melee attack.

#### Hound's Best Friend
*11th-level Dog & Hound feature*
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When a creature deals damage to your hound with an attack, you can use your reaction to make an opportunity attack against that creature if you are within range.

#### Dire Hound
*17th-level Dog & Hound feature*
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You use the statistics for a dire wolf (found in appendix A of the Monster Manual), instead of a wolf, for your hound, except that its size remains Medium. These statistics are modified as described in your Brawler’s Best Friend feature.

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<h3 id="Hand of Dread">Hand of Dread</h3>

In your darkest hour you pleaded for the strength to take what you wanted from the world and a dread power took notice. At first, you may have relished the cathartic rush that came with channeling your dread power to claim what you felt you deserved. This pact, however, came with strings attached. In times of distress you hear the entity whispering in the back of your mind, reminding you of the promise you made to it, and the obligations that have so far gone unfulfilled...

#### Black Magic
*3rd-level Hand of Dread feature*
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You learn the *blade ward* and *prestidigitation* cantrips, and you gain the Warlock's Eldritch Blast feature, with the modification that the feature scales with your Pugilist level instead of Warlock level. Constitution is your spellcasting modifier for these spells and features, since you channel the magic of dread powers through your body when you cast them. In addition, you learn to speak, read, and write one of  the following languages of your choice: Abyssal, Infernal, or Sylvan. At the DM’s discretion, you may choose another language more appropriate to your dread power.

#### Dread Hand
*3rd-level Hand of Dread feature*
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You can use a bonus action on your turn to manifest the evidence of your foul pledge. When you do, one of your limbs (often an arm) transmogrifies into a monstrous appearance reminiscent of your dread power for 1 minute.
* When you roll a 1 on a damage die for an unarmed strike attack you made, you can reroll the die and must use the new roll, even if the new roll is a 1.
* The first time you miss with an unarmed strike attack each turn you can make an additional unarmed strike attack as part of the same action.
* Immediately after you take the Attack action on your turn, you can spend 2 moxie points to make three unarmed strikes as a bonus action.

You must finish a short or long rest before you can use this feature again.

#### Deal With the Devil
*6th-level Hand of Dread feature*
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You gain two eldritch invocations of your choice from among those available to the warlock class. When you gain a level in this class, you can choose one of the invocations you know and replace it with another invocation that you meet the prerequisites for.

#### Grotesque Growth
*11th-level Hand of Dread feature*
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When you use your Dread Hand feature you can choose to grow into a towering misshapen form for one minute. When you do, your size increases by one category — from Medium to Large, for example. If there isn’t enough room for you to grow to that size, you grow to the maximum possible size the space will allow.

While enlarged in this way, you have advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws, your reach becomes 10 feet, and your melee weapon attacks deal 1d4 extra damage. When the minute is over, you suffer one level of exhaustion (as described in appendix A of the Player’s Handbook).

#### Fountain of Viscera
*17th-level Hand of Dread feature*
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You can use an action and expend 6 moxie points to attempt to execute a creature of your choice within reach by burrowing your hand into its body and extracting its innards. The creature must make a Dexterity saving throw (DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier). On a failure, the creature takes 100 piercing damage. On a success, the creature takes 50 piercing damage instead.

If this damage reduces the target to 0 hit points or less, it immediately dies as you rip a hole through it, creating a stomach-turning fountain of viscera. When this happens, each creature within 30 feet of you who can see you must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw (DC equal to 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier) or be frightened of you for 1 minute. A creature who fails the saving throw can make the Wisdom saving throw again at the end of each of its turns, ending the frightened condition early on a success.

Once you use this feature, you must finish a long rest before you can use it again.

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<h3 id="Piss & Vinegar">Piss & Vinegar</h3>

Pugilists in the Piss & Vinegar fight club revel in their reputations as heels. Widely despised for their obscene curses and dirty tricks, these pugilists take pride in their ability to provoke and fight to win at all costs.

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#### Bonus Proficiency
*3rd-level Piss & Vinegar feature*
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You gain proficiency with the Intimidation skill if you don’t have it already.

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#### Salty Salute
*3rd-level Piss & Vinegar feature*
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You have mastered the art of the enraging insult. You can use a bonus action on your turn to provoke a creature within 60 feet who can see or hear you. That creature must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, the creature takes your fisticuff’s damage die + your Charisma modifier in psychic damage and has disadvantage on any attack rolls it makes that do not include you as a target before the start of your next turn. For any of your Piss & Vinegar features that require your opponent to make a saving throw, the saving DC is calculated as follows:

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#### Dirty Tricks
*6th-level Piss & Vinegar feature*
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You have a few tricks up your sleeve to even the odds when the going gets rough. You can each of these dirty tricks once and regain their use when you finish a short or long rest.

***Heelstomper.*** When you deal damage with an unarmed attack, you attempt to slow the creature you hit. The creature must make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failure, you gain 1 moxie point (up to your maximum) and its movement speed is halved for one minute.

***Low Blow.*** When you deal damage with an unarmed attack you can choose to hit them below the belt. The creature must make a Strength saving throw. On a failure, you gain 1 moxie point (up to your maximum) and it is knocked prone.

***Pocket Sand.*** You can use a bonus action to attempt to blind a creature within 5 feet. The creature must make a Constitution saving throw. On a failure, you gain 1 moxie point (up to your maximum) and it is blinded until the end of its next turn.

#### Mean Old Cuss
*11th-level Piss & Vinegar feature*
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Your threats and mean spirited tricks pack an extra punch. When you make a Charisma (Intimidation) ability check, you can use your reaction and spend 1 moxie to give yourself advantage on the roll. When a creature makes a saving throw against one of your Piss & Vinegar features, you can use your reaction and spend 1 moxie to give that roll disadvantage.

#### The Uncouth Art
*17th-level Piss & Vinegar feature*
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You gain the ability to offend every creature in the room with minimal effort. When you use your Salty Salute feature, you can choose to target a number of creatures within 60 feet who can see or hear you up to your level in this class instead of a single creature. You gain 1 moxie point (up to your maximum) the first time each creature targeted in this way hits you with an attack before the start of your next turn. You can use this feature again after you finish a long rest.

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<h3 id="Squared Circle">The Squared Circle</h3>

Pugilists who fight in the Squared Circle know you don’t have to knock an opponent senseless to get them to submit. Of course, members of the Squared Circle do beat their opponents senseless, they just know they don’t have to.

#### Groundwork
*3rd-level Squared Circle feature*
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You gain the following additional moxie features.

***Compression Lock.*** When a creature attempts to break a grapple with you and succeeds, you can use your reaction and spend 1 moxie point to force the creature to roll again. The creature must use the second result.

***Quick Pin.*** When a hostile creature’s movement provokes an opportunity attack from you, you can use your reaction and spend 1 moxie point to make a grapple attack instead of an opportunity attack.

***To the Mat.*** You can use a bonus action and spend 1 moxie point to make a grapple attack against a creature within range. If successful, the creature is also knocked prone.

#### Meat Shield
*6th-level Squared Circle feature*
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When you have an enemy creature grappled, you gain half cover against all attacks made against you by a creature you are not grappling. When a weapon attack made by a creature you are not grappling misses you, you may use your reaction and spend 1 moxie point to have that creature make the same attack with a new roll against an enemy creature you are grappling.

#### Heavyweight
*11th-level Squared Circle feature*
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You count as one size larger than you are for the purposes of grappling. In addition, you can move your full movement speed when you are dragging or carrying a grappled creature your size or smaller.

#### Clean Finish
*17th-level Squared Circle feature*
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Your mastery of grappling reaches its peak. While you have a creature grappled, you gain advantage on all attacks against it. Additionally, when you make an unarmed strike or pugilist weapon attack against a creature you have grappled, you score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20.

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<h3 id="Sweet Science">The Sweet Science</h3>

Pugilists who practice the Sweet Science hit hard, fast, and often. This style is sometimes used by fighters who battle for the entertainment of the upper classes, but is just as often practiced in the back alleys and the bars by those whose next breath depends on a knockout.

#### Cross Counter
*3rd-level Sweet Science feature*
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You can block the brunt of an attack and launch one of your own in the same fluid motion. You can use your reaction and spend 1 moxie point to reduce the damage of a melee weapon attack made against you by 1d10 + your Strength modifier + your pugilist level.

If you reduce the damage to 0, you can make an unarmed strike, or pugilist weapon attack, against a creature within range as part of the same reaction.

#### One, Two, Three, Floor
*6th-level Sweet Science feature*
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When you use your bonus action to use the Old One-Two and hit the same creature with both attacks, you can spend 1 moxie to make an additional unarmed strike against that creature as part of the same bonus action. If you hit, the creature is knocked prone in addition to taking damage as normal for your unarmed strike.

#### Float Like a Butterly, Sting Like a Bee
*11th-level Sweet Science feature*
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When you reduce damage from an attack to 0 and successfully hit an enemy creature using your Cross Counter feature you regain 1 moxie point (up to your maximum).

#### Knock Out
*17th-level Sweet Science feature*
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When you hit with an unarmed strike or pugilist weapon, you can spend 1 or more moxie points to try to knock out the opponent. Roll 3d12 + 2d12 for every moxie point spent after the first and add your pugilist level to the result; if the total is equal to or greater than the creature’s remaining hit points, it is unconscious for 10 minutes.

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> ##### Art Credits
> Art (Page 4): **Jason Chan: Arena Athlete** [(Link)](https://www.artofmtg.com/art/arena-athlete/)
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> Art (Page 5): **Gavin Reece: unknown title** [(Link)](https://id.pinterest.com/pin/404901822740359508/)
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> Art (Page 6): **Takanomiyo: Johnny Broderick, A Half-Orc, Half-Goblin, Dog&Hound Pugilist** [(Link)](https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/g9mf1b/ocart_johnny_broderick_a_halforc_halfgoblin/?utm_source=ifttt)
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> Art (Page 7): **u/Haboobalub: Duergar Dread Hand Pugilist** [(Link)](https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/j8c7a4/ocart_duergar_dread_hand_pugilist/)
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> Art (Page 8): **u/kremdaws: Kolia Proszynski, Pugilist of Slop Street, Waterdeep** [(Link)](https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/egfg0p/ocart_kolia_proszynski_pugilist_of_slop_street/)
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> Art (Page 9): **broutefoin: Garm "Scartoof" Docker, a Half-orc Pugilist** [(Link)](https://www.reddit.com/r/characterdrawing/comments/8us4zp/scartoof_halforc_pugilist/)
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