Brawl

[Combat]

Your constant brawling has improved your ability to fight unarmed.

Prerequisites

Base attack bonus +1.

Benefit

You are proficient with your unarmed strike. When making an unarmed attack, you receive a +1 competence bonus on attack rolls, and you deal damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier (1d4 + your Strength modifier if you are Small). Your unarmed attacks count as armed, which means that opponents do not get attacks of opportunity when you attack them unarmed. However, you may make attacks of opportunity against any opponent who makes an unarmed attack on you.

Your unarmed attacks still deal nonlethal damage, but you only take a -2 penalty to attack rolls when attempting to deal lethal damage with them.

Special

This damage increase does not stack with that granted by the Monk class.

This feat counts as Improved Unarmed Strike for the purposes of meeting prerequisites.

Normal

Without this feat, you deal only 1d3 points of nonlethal damage (if Medium size). Attempting to deal lethal damage with a weapon that normally only deals nonlethal damage incurs a -4 penalty to attack rolls. Unarmed strikes normally provoke attacks of opportunity, and unarmed combatants normally cannot make attacks of opportunity.