## The Street Boxer As opposed to a standardly trained warrior, the Street Boxer is a combatant whose style of fist fighting was learned in the urban battlegrounds; through wits, grit and blood.
Always making themselves present in back-alley brawls and tournaments alike, these rugged fighters revel in the thrill of split-second timing, ruthless exchanges and decisive knock-outs; driven to become the best challengers in the world.

### Bonus Proficiencies When you choose this archetype at 3rd level, you gain proficiency in the Athletics and Acrobatics skills. If you are already proficient in both these skills, you may gain expertise with one of them instead.

### Street Discipline At 3rd level, the constant fighting in your life has grinded your fists to hit harder than iron, making them just as dangerous as any weapon: - You gain the **Unarmed Fighting** option from the Fighting Style list. If you already have that style as your specialty, you gain one other Fighting Style option of your choice. - While clenched, each of your fists now counts as a one-handed melee weapon (no action required for it). - When you use the Attack action with an unarmed strike, you can make one unarmed strike as a bonus action.
You don't add your ability modifier to that damage roll until you reach 7th level. You must be wielding no shields or weapons (other than your fists) in order to do so. ```

### Honed Techniques At 7th level, your experience in street brawls and back-alley skirmishes has trimmed and sharpened the techniques learned in your training, allowing you to employ them on any situation by muscle memory alone. Once per round, you can use one of the following maneuvers: - **Guard Up.** As a boxer, you know how to best absorb the damage from even the hardest hits. When you take bludgeoning, piercing or slashing damage from a melee attack, you can use your reaction to put up your guard, giving yourself resistance to the triggering damage type until the end of the attacker's turn. - **Cross Counter.** By sensing the timing of an incoming blow, you can use your opponent’s momentum against them. If an enemy within 5 feet of you misses you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction to make an unarmed strike against them. On a hit, the creature’s Strength modifier (min. of 1) is added to the damage roll. - **Nasty Hook.** Whenever you use your action to make an unarmed strike, you can forgo your bonus action for that turn to put extra weight behind your blow. On a hit, the target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or gain disadvantage on attack rolls and ability checks, and not be able to take reactions, until the end of their next turn. When a target is required to make a saving throw to resist your maneuver's effects, the saving throw DC equals 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Strength modifier.

\page ### Expanded Repertory At 10th level, your exploits as an adventurer have broadened your horizons, giving you insight into even more techniques. You gain further options to choose from when employing a boxing maneuver on or after your turn: - **Jaw Breaker.** Whenever you use your action to make an unarmed strike, you can forgo your extra attacks on that turn to put all of your power into the next swing. On a hit, the target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or be stunned until the start of your next turn. Once you use this maneuver, you can't use it again until you spend one round without performing any maneuvers. - **Uppercut.** Whenever you use your action to make an unarmed strike, you can forgo your bonus action for that turn to attempt throwing a mighty uppercut. On a hit, if the target is Large or smaller, they must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or be knocked off their feet and fall prone. - **Shuffle Step.** You know how to stay light on your feet, allowing you to make large movements with greater quickness than most. Whenever you are the target of
an attack, spell or area-of-effect feature, you can use
your reaction to move 10 feet in any direction without provoking opportunity attacks. If that movement causes you to leave the range of the triggering attack or spell, it then just barely misses you. Once you use this maneuver, you can't use it again until you spend one round without moving. ``` ``` ### Slugger At 15th level, your knuckles are no different from instruments of demolition: - The damage die of your unarmed strikes increases to a d8. If you aren't wielding any weapons or a shield when you make one, it ignores resistance to bludgeoning damage. - While clenched, each of your fists now counts as a melee weapon with the Heavy and Two-Handed properties for the purposes of fulfilling specific feature requirements. - Your unarmed strikes ignore the damage threshold of objects and deal maximum damage to them. ### K.O. At 18th level, you reach the pinnacle of your boxing style, being able to deliver any foe to the ground with a single well-placed punch.
When making an unarmed strike, you score a critical hit on a dice roll of 19-20. If attacking with disadvantage, you score it on a dice roll of 17-20. When you do, the target must succeed on a Constitution saving throw (DC 6 + your Strength modifier + your proficiency bonus) or fall unconscious for 1 minute. They can make a new saving throw at the start of each of their turns, as well as each time they take damage, ending the effect on a successful save. If the target has 60 or fewer hit points after taking the damage from your strike, it is instead reduced to 0 hit points on a failed save, being completely knocked unconscious and then becoming stable. This knock-out can be performed only once per turn.

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\page ## Additional Fighting Styles At 2nd level, Fighters adopt a particular style of combat as their specialty. The options below are meant to expand the possibilities available to you when constructing your Street Boxer character's build.

### Feinting Whenever you make an unarmed strike against a creature, you can choose to willingly miss. If you do so, your next attack against it on that turn is made with advantage. ### Out-Boxing When making an unarmed strike on your turn, your reach for it is 5 feet greater than normal. ### Peek-A-Boo Whenever you remain within 5 feet of a target, you gain a +1 bonus to your AC against attacks made by them, and a +1 bonus to any attack rolls you make against them. This can only be applied to one creature at a time. ### Dempsey Roll Whenever you take the Attack action on your turn, one of your attacks may be replaced with the Dodge action. When benefitting from it in this way, only melee attacks against you have disadvantage, and Dexterity saves are made normally. ### Gazelle Punch If you make an unarmed strike against a creature within 5 feet of you right after expending your movement to get up from being prone, your proficiency bonus is subtracted from the target’s AC for that attack roll. ### Switch-Hitter Whenever you hit a creature with an unarmed strike, you
gain a cumulative +1 bonus to the next attack roll you make against them on that turn, up to a maximum bonus equal to your Dexterity modifier. ### Textbook Whenever you hit a creature with an unarmed strike on your turn, if the roll’s result exceeds their AC by 5 or more, you can immediately make another unarmed strike against them (no action required). Alternatively, you may choose to gain the benefits of the Dodge action against that target. This can only be done once per turn.

> ##### Alternate Rule: Style Re-Training > ___ > ___ > Some Fighting Style options, especially those listed here, are specific in application. Ask your DM to consider allowing characters in the game to re-train their Fighting Style over a few long rests; allowing them to adjust to the challenges ahead.
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\page ### Brass Knuckles *melee weapon (martial, fist)* ___ "Also commonly known as Knuckledusters, these pieces of metal are shaped to fit around the wielder’s knuckles. Designed to preserve and concentrate a punch's force by directing it toward a harder and smaller contact area, they provide an increased likelihood of fracturing the victim's bones on impact. " ___ - **Category:** Items - **Item Rarity:** Uncommon - **Damage:** 1d6 - **Damage Type:** Bludgeoning - **Properties:** Special, Light - **Weight:** 1/2 lb *** Attacks made with this weapon are treated as unarmed strikes. If you already have a feature which improves the die of your unarmed strikes, this item adds an extra 1d4 to the damage roll instead. *** **Increased Rarity Variant:** If you score a critical hit while wielding this weapon, the target becomes incapacitated until the end of your next turn. ``` ```

### Gloves of Boxing *Wondrous item, uncommon* ___ While you are wearing this item, your unarmed strikes count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to non-magical attacks and damage.
Additionally, whenever you hit a creature with an unarmed strike on your turn, it takes a cumulative -1 penalty to the next Constitution saving throw it makes until the end of your next turn. *** **Increased Rarity Variant:** If you score a critical hit while wearing this item, the target must make a Constitution saving throw (DC 8 + your Strength modifier + your proficiency bonus), becoming blinded and deafened for 1 round on a failed save.

Although it was not intended to be part of this subclass’s flavor, if you wish for your character to not be reliant on the usage of items, you may add the following snippet to the *Honed Techniques* feature’s description:
*** **“In addition, your unarmed strikes now count as magical for the purposes of bypassing damage resistance and immunity.”**

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