Creating an Unarmed Combatant

[Gallo]

I'm not having much fun playing my Witch/Druid (2/2) in Serpent's Skull so he is going to retire to the jungle at the end of book 1.....

So as a replacement I was thinking of playing a character who only uses Unarmed Strike in melee - a kind of boxer/wrestler/streetfighter kind of character. My Kingmaker character is a fighter with a heavy-flail so I'd like to try a melee type who doesn't have a big weapon to smack things with, and the challenge of playing a melee type who is unarmoured (or light armour only) appeals.

I like the idea of a few levels of monk (possibly either Master of Many Styles or Martial Artist) and a couple of levels of Fighter (Brawler Archetype for the level 3 weapon training) or perhaps Urban Barbarian for the rage powers (Beast Totem line).

At this stage he/she will only be level 4, but I'd be interested in ideas for progression up to about level 14.

A few considerations:

I don't want to play a single class character, so any combination of classes is fine.

Race - human or half-orc (biting people while grappling is encouraged :)

Point Buy - 20

I'd like to use the Crane Style combat feat chain (for the one attack per round deflection) and possibly Boar style (for the extra damage).

Anyway, there seem so many possible combinations so I'd be interested in your thoughts.

Thanks!

[Pixel Cube]

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/core-classes/fighter/archetypes/paizo---fig hter-archetypes/unarmed-fighter

[Gallo]

Pixel Cube wrote:

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/core-classes/fighter/archetypes/paizo---fig hter-archetypes/unarmed-fighter

and the unwritten, obvious other consideration was that I don't like the Unarmed Fighter archetype, otherwise I wouldn't have posted in the first place ;-)

[Lobolusk]

I play a level 2 unarmed fighter level 2 urban barbarian /brutal Pugilist and he is vicious! if i were to do it different i would go 3 levels monk for Monastic vow feat then brawler or unarmed fighter all the way. Either way you do it I love unarmed combat.

my plan is 5 levels of barbarian with the brawler and improved brawler and strength surge as my rage powers. then go all the way unarmed fighter. so far He is brutal the on fire covered with spiders grapple a shark and win brutal.

[Mike Schneider]

Gallo wrote:

Race - human or half-orc (biting people while grappling is encouraged :)

Point Buy - 20

I'd like to use the Crane Style combat feat chain (for the one attack per round deflection) and possibly Boar style (for the extra damage).

Or Uncle Iroh.

[Ughbash]

4 levels of Monk (master of many styles), 16 levels of brawler.
I'd focus on Dragon style as one of your 2 styles (and you can have both active at the same time) and if you want crane for the other crane is fine.

Being able to ignore bad terrain and charge through friendly is nice as well as the extra damage (if you are a strength focused character).