Brute
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Brute is one of several possible subclasses you can undertake as a fighter.
Your subclass yields features when you undertake it at 2nd level, and again at 4th, 7th, 11th, 16th, and 20th levels. See Fighter#Brute for an integrated list that combines brute features with those of the base fighter class.
Whether by bow, blade, or fist, the brute focuses on only one thing: tearing the enemy to shreds. With raw talent few can match, a brute strikes early, often, and with utter brutality. While others are prancing about and puzzling over what to do, the brute has already pulverized their enemies to dust. Becoming a brute is the clear choice for any fighter who wants to keep things straightforward and to-the-point, especially if that point is the tip of a sword.
Hearty
Starting from 2nd level, all Heart Containers you gain from this class become d12s instead of d10s—including the one you gained at 1st level.
Your heart point maximum increases by 3, and it increases by 1 every time you gain a fighter level after this.
Critical Ace
Beginning from 2nd level, your weapon attacks score a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20.
Brutal Blow
At 3rd level, you learn to truly take out your pent-up aggression against your foes. When you hit a creature with a target strike, you add your fighter level to the damage dealt. Once you use this feature, you can't do so again until you next roll initiative.
Battle Instinct
From 7th level onward, add your proficiency bonus to your initiative.
Brutal Critical
Starting from 7th level, whenever you score a critical hit, you can roll one additional weapon damage die when determining the extra damage for a critical hit with a melee attack. This increases to two additional dice at 11th level, and three at 15th level.
Endless Attacks
Starting from 11th level, when you use the Attack action on your turn, you can make three attacks.
At 20th level, you can instead make four attacks.
Brutal Finish
Upon reaching 15th level, your attacks become so devastating they even rend even the afterlife. Whenever you reduce a creature to 0 heart points with a weapon attack or unarmed strike, its body is destroyed to the point that no corpse is left behind. The creature cannot be resurrected by a spell of fewer than 13-points (lower than 9th level), nor any other effect that doesn't first create a new body for the creature.
Overwhelming Attacks
Starting at 15th level, your attacks can smash or pierce through barriers both mundane and magical. You ignore any damage resistance (but not damage immunity) against your weapon attacks and unarmed strikes.