I have a character that is a Warforged Zealot Barbarian and I would like to have some input from other players about what Divine Fury is from a role-playing perspective.
I think of it as kind of a diluted version of a Paladin's Divine Smite. It doesn't deal as much damage, since the Barbarian's fighting style is more instinctive rather than being able to focus through discipline or training, so they're able to release that power round after round without spending any resource for each attack, it just infuses them during their Rage.
How you characterize it depends on what you want the flavor of your character to be. I personally like taking Warforged and treating their skills and abilities as some kind of mechanical function rather than a separate skill they acquire through training. For a Warforged Zealot I'm picturing that they have some kind of divine power source deep in their core... like a relic touched by divine energy that animates their body. In that case I would flavor the Rage as basically temprorarily OverClocking their internal mechanisms, and when striking a burst of Divine Energy is released almost like a heat sink, blasting the target with additional radiant energy... or necrotic, I suppose, depending on what kind of God you're a Zealot for.
I have a Reborn Zealot Barbarian character for a homebrew campaign setting. His base species is supposed to be essentially Goliath and the idea is that he was a barbarian warrior that died, had his soul claimed by the deity he served, and was "reborn" after undergoing a trial to return to life. The reason he was given this option to undergo the trial in the afterlife was because of his zealous service to his god. He actually has runic tattoos covering much of his body that will glow when he's enraged allowing him to channel the divine fury of his deity, a sort of Chaotic Neutral God of Destruction (Among other things) that serves to fulfill the balance of the world rather than being a wanton warmongering deity. Meanwhile, my Zealot Barbarian is allowed to build himself a new life with new friends and allies while having only vague and scattered memories from his previous life.
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I have a character that is a Warforged Zealot Barbarian and I would like to have some input from other players about what Divine Fury is from a role-playing perspective.
Thanks in advance!
I think of it as kind of a diluted version of a Paladin's Divine Smite. It doesn't deal as much damage, since the Barbarian's fighting style is more instinctive rather than being able to focus through discipline or training, so they're able to release that power round after round without spending any resource for each attack, it just infuses them during their Rage.
How you characterize it depends on what you want the flavor of your character to be. I personally like taking Warforged and treating their skills and abilities as some kind of mechanical function rather than a separate skill they acquire through training. For a Warforged Zealot I'm picturing that they have some kind of divine power source deep in their core... like a relic touched by divine energy that animates their body. In that case I would flavor the Rage as basically temprorarily OverClocking their internal mechanisms, and when striking a burst of Divine Energy is released almost like a heat sink, blasting the target with additional radiant energy... or necrotic, I suppose, depending on what kind of God you're a Zealot for.
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I have a Reborn Zealot Barbarian character for a homebrew campaign setting. His base species is supposed to be essentially Goliath and the idea is that he was a barbarian warrior that died, had his soul claimed by the deity he served, and was "reborn" after undergoing a trial to return to life. The reason he was given this option to undergo the trial in the afterlife was because of his zealous service to his god. He actually has runic tattoos covering much of his body that will glow when he's enraged allowing him to channel the divine fury of his deity, a sort of Chaotic Neutral God of Destruction (Among other things) that serves to fulfill the balance of the world rather than being a wanton warmongering deity. Meanwhile, my Zealot Barbarian is allowed to build himself a new life with new friends and allies while having only vague and scattered memories from his previous life.