Scrooge McDuck is an Ancestral Guardian Barbarian, just saying.
Heck there's even a certain Commander of the City Watch who seems to have taken a few levels of Path of the Cow.
i want elaboration on the above statement and on path of the cow, because there is no barbarian bath for cows, did you perhaps mean something else like elk?
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It's a reference to commander Vimes from the discworld series. It's an older series but I still feel like I shouldn't spoil it. But if you just Google "Vimes cow" you'll surely find the reference.
This chat thread seems to have died a bit but I figured I'd throw my newly created Dragonborn Barbarian into the mix. I basically took the zealous, self-confident, and resilient core aspects of the Dragonborn emotional and passionate identity and used it as a replacement for the "mindless anger" of the barbarian. Requires less actual homebrewing, mostly just renaming or rethinking the source from "Me so angry, SWING HARD" to "I focus myself and pour my vary soul into the battle, every strike I make an embodiment of the years of sorrow, hard work, and resilient pride of me and my people"
"Me so angry, SWING HARD" to "I focus myself and pour my vary soul into the battle, every strike I make an embodiment of the years of sorrow, hard work, and resilient pride of me and my people"
This honestly feels like the exact same thing just described with more fancy words lol
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I've never encountered a forum where I got this many "talking to a wall" impressions as this one...
I am palying barbarian/cleric, he is offended by the idea tha he can only be fighter, you can try adding tool proficiencies and give himmore things to do in rp, personally i like to take wood carving and be an artisan of sorts.
A fun one I have had is a normal person whose rage is external. Perhaps they bonded with a fey spirit of the wilds and can reach out and channel that.
Perhaps a curse has given them this rage. A curse they may grow into, or despise. Maybe a noble did something to someone and they laid this curse on them, to feel the rage of the person they wronged. Maybe they have just grown to accept that is their punishment. Maybe they want to make amends.
Or perhaps a spirit or demon resides there and their rage is the releasing of that energy. Or that spirit blending with them. This is doubly fun with something like the berserker where the rage is a merging of the two, and the frenzy is the scales tipping more to the spirit or ghost.
maybe a young and weak person was abused or picked on. So they make a deal for the strength to stand up for themselves. they return tall and strong. And when they go to defend themselves… they just lose it. All the emotions they have had over the years gets fuelled into this supernatural anger
these sort of ideas also kinda explain why they are so resilient. They aren’t just angry. Something else is fuelling them and the anger just comes with it
honestly I love the ways you can come bring rage to life.
Once made a human berseker soldier that was a civilized warrior clad in half-plate and wielding a sword and board. He was a sort of hot tempered drunken master western version with alcool and anger management problems ☺
I think the Ancestral Guardian Barbarian would make a good bodyguard in a civilized enviroment, being able to protect their clients even in social enviroments, where armor is considered inappropriate. The spirits mentioned in the class descpription could be guardian angels in the service of a god of protection, or maybe, if the character has pledged loyalty to a ruler, ancestors of the royal line, the character has sworn to protect. The character should ideally have a background that gives them proficiency in perception, investigation and insight checks. The alert and sentinel feats would fit the concept too.
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One of the things most folks forget about rage is that there are actually 2 types of rage- the hot mindless one everyone thinks of and the ice cold calculating truly deadly type. I’ve got a bugbear barbarian of the second sort I’m waiting to play - strong, fast and with a 14 intelligence that will outthink you as he rages - no spells but cold, cunning, calculating and absolutely deadly.
My idea is a Shifter wounded war Vet. Ancestral Guardian. A Corporal who was in the battle of (X) in which there were no survivors. He was an archer who loses an eye and his bow hand is also crippled so he uses a special harness for his shield and then a warhammer (cuz it's cool).
The guardians show up as ghosts of the platoon.
I even threw in 5 levels of Undead Warlock to complete the Ghost story aspect.
I do find it strange that my concept character is running around with a pact of the chain familiar, but I couldn't pass up on the "Gift of the Ever Living Ones" for the boost to his healing (even if it only affects health potions and the like). Hoping to maybe even find a Periapt of Wound Closure for him too. That would make him a dead warbarian who could heal 80 damage with a single superior healing potion.
EDIT: Meant to say that this one borders between the rage trope/civilized example.
I played a SW 5e game where I was a droid berserker (barbarian). My character had a literal screw loose and would fly into a rage whenever any of its friends were injured. Afterwards it would lament the software glitch that prevents it doing any damage to humanoids; assuming it had shut down and missed out on the battle.
Very easy concept to port over to a Warforged Barbarian. ;)
"...or you can find the secret tunnel that leads to the Vault of Dickish DM which is filled with 10,000,000 copper coins and a 5,000 pound solid gold statue of a middle finger that is too big to fit through the door."
A Barbarian could be portrayed as an academic, city based magician who researches esoteric magic to improve his or her own body - the 'rage' is simply intense concentration to control the flow of magic inside them.
I've often wondered about, in a futuristic campaign, a cyborg Barbarian whose cybernetic implants have weakened his sense of self-preservation and altered his mind, allowing him to go into Rage.
A dwarven battlerager could be from a drwarven city or stronghold like Pwent in the Forgotten realms novels. He WAS uncivilized though....he didn't bathe.
Yes, I made a Goliath barbarian that, while he was from a tribal background, he was adopted and trained by an incredibly old dragon. He was also educated by the dragon, and since we have no wizards, he has highest INT in party (13). His rage is flavoured as channeling draconic energy through special techniques. He is multiclassed into fighter to give him FS unarmed fighting. He will eventually take rune knight.
While we normally think of rage as a hot crazy blocking everything else out (and that is really how it’s written for d&d), there is also “Cold” rage - super focused but cold and thinking all the way through. (Think John wick when pissed off). Completely civilized but hyper focused and using any and every tool available to complete the objective. Instead of making concentration in mpossible it’s like providing a +20 to concentration but only on the objective. For a number of the barbarian subclasses (especially those with spelllike abilities) this version of rage is often a better fit for a PC.
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Haha go for it.
i want elaboration on the above statement and on path of the cow, because there is no barbarian bath for cows, did you perhaps mean something else like elk?
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It's a reference to commander Vimes from the discworld series. It's an older series but I still feel like I shouldn't spoil it. But if you just Google "Vimes cow" you'll surely find the reference.
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This chat thread seems to have died a bit but I figured I'd throw my newly created Dragonborn Barbarian into the mix. I basically took the zealous, self-confident, and resilient core aspects of the Dragonborn emotional and passionate identity and used it as a replacement for the "mindless anger" of the barbarian. Requires less actual homebrewing, mostly just renaming or rethinking the source from "Me so angry, SWING HARD" to "I focus myself and pour my vary soul into the battle, every strike I make an embodiment of the years of sorrow, hard work, and resilient pride of me and my people"
This honestly feels like the exact same thing just described with more fancy words lol
I've never encountered a forum where I got this many "talking to a wall" impressions as this one...
I am palying barbarian/cleric, he is offended by the idea tha he can only be fighter, you can try adding tool proficiencies and give himmore things to do in rp, personally i like to take wood carving and be an artisan of sorts.
A fun one I have had is a normal person whose rage is external. Perhaps they bonded with a fey spirit of the wilds and can reach out and channel that.
Perhaps a curse has given them this rage. A curse they may grow into, or despise. Maybe a noble did something to someone and they laid this curse on them, to feel the rage of the person they wronged. Maybe they have just grown to accept that is their punishment. Maybe they want to make amends.
Or perhaps a spirit or demon resides there and their rage is the releasing of that energy. Or that spirit blending with them. This is doubly fun with something like the berserker where the rage is a merging of the two, and the frenzy is the scales tipping more to the spirit or ghost.
maybe a young and weak person was abused or picked on. So they make a deal for the strength to stand up for themselves. they return tall and strong. And when they go to defend themselves… they just lose it. All the emotions they have had over the years gets fuelled into this supernatural anger
these sort of ideas also kinda explain why they are so resilient. They aren’t just angry. Something else is fuelling them and the anger just comes with it
honestly I love the ways you can come bring rage to life.
I have the idea of a Warforged Barbarian being a sort of "overclocked" Warforged with some special, high risk tuning.
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I found inspiration for my next barbarian:
Brains over brawn-that might work for you
But what's a Canadian half-orc to do?
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
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Once made a human berseker soldier that was a civilized warrior clad in half-plate and wielding a sword and board. He was a sort of hot tempered drunken master western version with alcool and anger management problems ☺
I think the Ancestral Guardian Barbarian would make a good bodyguard in a civilized enviroment, being able to protect their clients even in social enviroments, where armor is considered inappropriate. The spirits mentioned in the class descpription could be guardian angels in the service of a god of protection, or maybe, if the character has pledged loyalty to a ruler, ancestors of the royal line, the character has sworn to protect. The character should ideally have a background that gives them proficiency in perception, investigation and insight checks. The alert and sentinel feats would fit the concept too.
+ Instaboot to murderhobos + I don't watch Critical Role, and no, I really shouldn't either +
One of the things most folks forget about rage is that there are actually 2 types of rage- the hot mindless one everyone thinks of and the ice cold calculating truly deadly type. I’ve got a bugbear barbarian of the second sort I’m waiting to play - strong, fast and with a 14 intelligence that will outthink you as he rages - no spells but cold, cunning, calculating and absolutely deadly.
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My idea is a Shifter wounded war Vet. Ancestral Guardian. A Corporal who was in the battle of (X) in which there were no survivors. He was an archer who loses an eye and his bow hand is also crippled so he uses a special harness for his shield and then a warhammer (cuz it's cool).
The guardians show up as ghosts of the platoon.
I even threw in 5 levels of Undead Warlock to complete the Ghost story aspect.
I do find it strange that my concept character is running around with a pact of the chain familiar, but I couldn't pass up on the "Gift of the Ever Living Ones" for the boost to his healing (even if it only affects health potions and the like). Hoping to maybe even find a Periapt of Wound Closure for him too. That would make him a dead warbarian who could heal 80 damage with a single superior healing potion.
EDIT: Meant to say that this one borders between the rage trope/civilized example.
I played a SW 5e game where I was a droid berserker (barbarian). My character had a literal screw loose and would fly into a rage whenever any of its friends were injured. Afterwards it would lament the software glitch that prevents it doing any damage to humanoids; assuming it had shut down and missed out on the battle.
Very easy concept to port over to a Warforged Barbarian. ;)
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"...or you can find the secret tunnel that leads to the Vault of Dickish DM which is filled with 10,000,000 copper coins and a 5,000 pound solid gold statue of a middle finger that is too big to fit through the door."
A Barbarian could be portrayed as an academic, city based magician who researches esoteric magic to improve his or her own body - the 'rage' is simply intense concentration to control the flow of magic inside them.
My current character is a Dwarf prince who obtained his barbarian powers via demonic curse
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I've often wondered about, in a futuristic campaign, a cyborg Barbarian whose cybernetic implants have weakened his sense of self-preservation and altered his mind, allowing him to go into Rage.
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A dwarven battlerager could be from a drwarven city or stronghold like Pwent in the Forgotten realms novels. He WAS uncivilized though....he didn't bathe.
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Yes, I made a Goliath barbarian that, while he was from a tribal background, he was adopted and trained by an incredibly old dragon. He was also educated by the dragon, and since we have no wizards, he has highest INT in party (13). His rage is flavoured as channeling draconic energy through special techniques. He is multiclassed into fighter to give him FS unarmed fighting. He will eventually take rune knight.
While we normally think of rage as a hot crazy blocking everything else out (and that is really how it’s written for d&d), there is also “Cold” rage - super focused but cold and thinking all the way through. (Think John wick when pissed off). Completely civilized but hyper focused and using any and every tool available to complete the objective. Instead of making concentration in mpossible it’s like providing a +20 to concentration but only on the objective. For a number of the barbarian subclasses (especially those with spelllike abilities) this version of rage is often a better fit for a PC.
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