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<blockquote data-quote="Cap'n Kobold" data-source="post: 7823400" data-attributes="member: 6802951">Nothing about my suggestion removes the Fighter's weapon and armour proficiencies. Most brawlers would still be more effective wearing armour and using a weapon for their main attack.The concept is a fighter who can hold their own reasonably well unarmed or unarmoured, but whose main strength is combining striking, shoving and wrestling with weapon attacks. Can't get your sword through your opponent's armour? Slam them into the ground and start unscrewing their head! Need to go all-out on a particular group of foes? Bring your feet, elbows, head, knees and anything else you have to bear as well as your axe.The unarmoured defence is not going to be hugely useful for most brawlers outside of the sort of situation where they would excel, and likewise weapons are often going to be doing more damage than their unarmed strikes in most cases.&nbsp;Or you could do what other martial classes do and hit it with a magic weapon. As an interesting point to consider for those to whom exact wording is important, if unarmed strikes are not considered weapons, would resistance or immunity against attacks from nonmagical weapons even protect against them?The wording is pretty clear.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cap'n Kobold, post: 7823400, member: 6802951"] Nothing about my suggestion removes the Fighter's weapon and armour proficiencies. Most brawlers would still be more effective wearing armour and using a weapon for their main attack. The concept is a fighter who can hold their own reasonably well unarmed or unarmoured, but whose main strength is combining striking, shoving and wrestling with weapon attacks. Can't get your sword through your opponent's armour? Slam them into the ground and start unscrewing their head! Need to go all-out on a particular group of foes? Bring your feet, elbows, head, knees and anything else you have to bear as well as your axe. The unarmoured defence is not going to be hugely useful for most brawlers outside of the sort of situation where they would excel, and likewise weapons are often going to be doing more damage than their unarmed strikes in most cases. Or you could do what other martial classes do and hit it with a magic weapon. As an interesting point to consider for those to whom exact wording is important, if unarmed strikes are not considered weapons, would resistance or immunity against attacks from nonmagical weapons even protect against them? The wording is pretty clear. [/QUOTE]

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