Boxers?

[Bonadrag]

Hey gang!

I'm about to DM a game where the party is tasked with taking down a local gang. I wanted to create some villains based off the Kray twins, who had a background in boxing, but I know that unarmed combat in 3.x is underwhelming. I'm just curious if I should cross class a monk with something else or if anyone knows of a good home brewed boxer?

 

[domino]

A few levels of monk and rogue + fighter for feats sounds handy (monk 4/rogue 3 gives magic fists, + 2d6 sneak attack, great if they're twins who fight together + fighter for higher BAB, and hd plus all the feats) would fit, depending on the level they're facing.

There's also a handful of dedicated pugilist homebrew classes out there, just google "dnd pugilist) to look at.

 

[Dandu]

Rogue1/Monk2/Dungeoncrasher Thug Fighter2/RogueX

 

[Ranger19k]

If your campaign allows Tome of Battle, consider an unarmed variant swordsage. I've never played one, but they appear like they could hold their own....

 

[BENINHB]

What level are we talking about??

Are they fighting 1 vs 1 or group vs group??

 

[Dandu]

Totemists are actually pretty good with unarmed attacks, as are Psychic Warriors.

 

[kitcik]

(Ex-)Monk 2 / Barbarian x?

That "rage round" of the match would be interesting...

 

[Dandu]

Speaking of barbarians, you could use the barbarian as a base class for an unarmed thug. For example...

 

[Binho]

you could use a fighter with the strength devotion feat, maybe adding one PrC

 

[Derulbaskul]

You could also build an unarmed fighter using a feat chain:

Improved Unarmed Strike
Improved Natural Attack
Superior Unarmed Strike (Tome of Battle)

A 1st-level human fighter could have all of those and do d8 damage plus Str bonus with an unarmed attack.

(I may have got the feat names slightly incorrect as it's been a while since I looked up 3.5E stuff.)