When you select this background, add seven points to your Strength score and five points to your Agility score. In addition, you may distribute eight points among any of your other attribute scores. No single attribute may receive more than four points.

Stamina: A Pugilist begins play with 30 stamina, plus an amount equal to your Strength bonus.

Recovery Dice: When you select Pugilist as your background, you gain two ten-sided dice (2d10) as Recovery dice. This is in addition to any Recovery dice you gained due to your ancestry.

Defences: Add one training rank to each of your Fortitude and Reflex defences.

Place two training ranks in the Unarmed Combat skill. In addition, choose any two additional skills from the following list: Acrobatics, Athletics, Insight, Intimidation, Medicine, Perception, Sleight of Hand.

Place one training rank in each of the selected skills.

You gain the Unarmed Training trait. The following traits are available to your character as Basic traits, regardless of their base class. Choose one and add it to your character.

• Enhanced Unarmed Damage
• Fleet
• Flurry of Blows
• Forceful Reposition
• Precision Strikes
• Pummel
• Unarmed Disarm

The following traits are available to your character as Expert traits, regardless of their base class.

• Martial Arts Mastery

You begin play with the following equipment:

• 100 silver coins.