So, I've recently been planning out a way to make a brawler character. The idea came tome while I was creating an eccentric dueling droid (I have a habbit of making character sheets I'll never use to come up with ideas), and thought, "How could I make an awesome brawler character?"

The answer is a Trandoshan Bounty Hunty Gadgeteer Maurauder Commando with Jury Rigged brass knuckles and shock gloves, the brass knuckles also being Tinkered, so that they can both get Superior, and also getting five ranks of Feral Strength between Maurauder and Commando, and getting Detication to increase Brawn to six, as well as increasing Brawl to five for easy rolling.

Wow, that was a mouthful.

This ends you up with a super buff murder machine that dishes out a whopping seventeen wound and three strain damage in attacks, or twelve without weapons. However, if you go for the gusto and take the whole package, it costs an equally whopping 390 experience, or around 245 if you just go for strength (it costs considerably less due to skipping out on a specialization and it's talents, but also requires you to buy a cybernetic enhancement and have less brawl). Of course, it costs a lot either way.

The point, though, is that it's possible, and from the one test run I've had with starting such a character, you're just about invincible if you get good armor and toughened/grit.

BUT STILL.

_{You're hardly invincible. Critical hits will drop you as fast as anyone else, so beware of vibro-axes with Lethal Blows, and nothing can help you if a Driver with a speeder-bike mounted blaster cannon shoots you. Sounds no more over the top than what you've suggested, so never think you're invincible. Oh yeah, and lightsabers...}

The point, though, is that it's possible, and from the one test run I've had with starting such a character, you're just about invincible if you get good armor and toughened/grit.

BUT STILL.

I was in a game about a month or so ago where a guy rolled as a Human with 5 Brawn and had maxed out his Brawl in character creation. Unfortunately, we didn't make it far past that as multiple people dropped out and the GM just stopped showing up at the scheduled time.

Anyways, game one....

We all got introduced and brought on board and were off to get the last guy.

Sampson.

The name is no understatement....

With just the 5 Brawn and 2 Brawl alone, he decimated 3 NPCs.

No weapons....

No Bonuses....

Just straight up beat the living crap out of them.

I think they might have tickled him a little at one point or another....

But, yeah, Brawl is one hell of a way to do combat if you want to just kill. No finesse. Just blood.

Except for those pesky pew-pews.

Not the go to guy if the toilet clogs or the hyperdrive is out though.....

The point, though, is that it's possible, and from the one test run I've had with starting such a character, you're just about invincible if you get good armor and toughened/grit.

BUT STILL.

I was in a game about a month or so ago where a guy rolled as a Human with 5 Brawn and had maxed out his Brawl in character creation. Unfortunately, we didn't make it far past that as multiple people dropped out and the GM just stopped showing up at the scheduled time.

Anyways, game one....

We all got introduced and brought on board and were off to get the last guy.

Sampson.

The name is no understatement....

With just the 5 Brawn and 2 Brawl alone, he decimated 3 NPCs.

No weapons....

No Bonuses....

Just straight up beat the living crap out of them.

I think they might have tickled him a little at one point or another....

But, yeah, Brawl is one hell of a way to do combat if you want to just kill. No finesse. Just blood.

Except for those pesky pew-pews.

Which is just about what I made.

The reason I say this is because it's not only fun if you're a player, but also GMs beware. The GM for the game was completely new, and he got very frustrated that I could just beat my way out of any situation. He's only lucky I didn't find a good way to give him a death ax...

I just wanted to alert the public that making a killer death machine based on fists is possible, and also kind of scary.

Frustrate the GM enough and, while you're character might live, the campaign dies. Not so scary now, is it?

We all got introduced and brought on board and were off to get the last guy.

Sampson.

Temptation to stat the Swedish murder machine... rising...

For thought's sake, someone ought to try out playing this kind of character, or have this kind of player with an experienced GM so we can all know what we might expect.

Doctor/Gadgeteer/Marauder can one shot anything in the game. It's pointless to even bother making one.

My current Doctor/Force Emergent is a load of fun to play. I went with being a Teras Kasi/skill monkey rather than trying to see how much damage I can do and how high a soak value I can obtain. I'm currently doing 8+ damage (3 ranks in medicine) which I'm perfectly fine with. There's no point in doing 20+ damage that ignores soak. I'd rather talk my way out of a fight to be perfectly honest.

Give the fisticuffs droid an Imperial accent and a monocle, please. Also perhaps a synthetic mustache of manly proportions.

The mustache should provide at least one Boost die to all Charm and Coercion tests.

Give the fisticuffs droid an Imperial accent and a monocle, please. Also perhaps a synthetic mustache of manly proportions.

The mustache should provide at least one Boost die to all Charm and Coercion tests.

So much this....

One of my players is making a Herglic Marauder who's main weapons are his shock gloves. All I can say is: dis gon be gud.

Just to make sure I get it right when we're actually starting play: are shock gloves considered unarmed combat? Do they cause 3 strain damage (stun 3 special) + brawn rating (unarmed) and get the Disorient 1 and Kockdown specials? Or is it simply 3 strain damage? I'm saying yes, but I want to be sure before I confirm this to my player.

If I am correct, then I take it that, when using Brass Knuckles, the disorient 1 gets replaced with Disorient 3 (or do I add them up to Disorient 4?)

shock gloves are not considered unarmed combat. You can't use them with pressure point.

You always take the better of the two effects. You don't combine them.

shock gloves are not considered unarmed combat. You can't use them with pressure point.

Nah, I'd let them mix so you can get murder fighters.

Give the fisticuffs droid an Imperial accent and a monocle, please. Also perhaps a synthetic mustache of manly proportions.

The mustache should provide at least one Boost die to all Charm and Coercion tests.

Indeed. I actually made one once, but never really got to use him (see Me Making Characters, above). He was where the idea to make a fist fighter began, and I started going through the stats...

shock gloves are not considered unarmed combat. You can't use them with pressure point.

Nah, I'd let them mix so you can get murder fighters.

>Implying a half-decent Pressure Point build isn't already overpowered without adding shock gloves. To which my only response is: lol

Ah, I wasn't really refering to Pressure Point (didn't even know about it until now ), but I was more curious how the gloves work during combat, and more to what kind of damage they actually do and if they get the Disorient 1 and Knockback specials.

Ah, I wasn't really refering to Pressure Point (didn't even know about it until now ), but I was more curious how the gloves work during combat, and more to what kind of damage they actually do and if they get the Disorient 1 and Knockback specials.

Yes, using shock gloves simply adjusts the profile of unarmed attacks, but you still retain Disorient 1 and Knockdown in addition to Stun 3.

Ah, I wasn't really refering to Pressure Point (didn't even know about it until now ), but I was more curious how the gloves work during combat, and more to what kind of damage they actually do and if they get the Disorient 1 and Knockback specials.

Oh, yes! Pressure point. I'd completely left that one out. This means that, to minions and rivals, you deal 25 points of damage, and to nemeses, you deal 22 wounds and 3 strain.

...

This is getting out of hand, really.

Do you wish to engage in fisticuffs? THEN THUSLY ADVANCE UPON MY PERSON BRETHREN!" - Lord Chauncy Longbotham (the First), Imperial pugilist droid,

Do you wish to engage in fisticuffs? THEN THUSLY ADVANCE UPON MY PERSON BRETHREN!" - Lord Chauncy Longbotham (the First), Imperial pugilist droid,

Translation: You wanna fight? Come at me bro!