Grappling feats?

[The Souljourner]

I'm thinking about making a character who is a grappling expert, since my DM seems to like to throw lots of grappling monsters against us. My question is this - what feats and/or prestige classes are available (official WoTC books and Dragon Magazine preferred sources) to make a better grappler? There's close quarters combat in Sword and Fist, which is nice if you *don't* want to get in a grapple.. but what about if you do, but you want to win?

-The Souljourner

 

[DM with a vengence]

Armor spikes are good for traditional fighter who don't want to get grappled. Otherwise boost your unarmed damage up as far as it can go. There's a whole series of feats in OA related to grappling if you have or are interested in that book.

 

[Spatula]

Clever Wrestling in MotW gives you a bonus against Large+ sized opponents (basically halving the size bonus that those creatures receive). You need Improved Unarmed Strike (or monk levels) in order to deal normal damage. OA has a bunch of unarmed and grappling feats that would help you out.

Dragon 303 (the gladiator issue) has a wrestling prestige class, the Reaping Mauler. "Reaping maulers are the back-breakers, the limb-twisters, and the neck-snappers among pit fighters."