Actual I am playing an exotic lizard folk barbarian (lvl 5) with a wolf totem spirit. Yes the bear would be tankier but my barb is getting more and more the centre position to manage the fights with his pack tactics feature: it supports my team member very well - we are a good unit.
Now I am searching for a next evolutional step and I am thinking about multi classing with a circle of sheperd druid. The info texts represent the actual situation aswell as the motivation of my barb:
- As the treasured item: "a vial of water from the source of a sacred river" - we freed a fairy and got her sealed source reopened.
- As the guiding aspect: "as demonstrated by the actions of the wolf, an individual's strength is nothing compared to the power of the pack" - that's my heroine.
- As the mentor: "your mentor has appeared to you only in visions. You have yet to meet this , and you are not sure such a person exists in mortal form." Well ok - we freed a fairy but this may only was an avatar of a higher and mightier entity who may speaks through this fairy in my visions, which I got.
And in general - the "totem spirit" from the martial aspect of the barbarian sounds pretty well in company with the "spirit totem" of the higher spiritual aspect of the druid.
It's a style decision but it sounds great and it feels that these 2 subclasses in special are two sides of the same medal.
Just remember that you cannot use spells or concentrate while raging. To facilitate still being useful, make sure to take plenty of spells that have non-combat value. The druid spell list is particularly heavy on concentration (though of course, out of combat that matters far less). Beyond that, I don’t see any particular issues other than being quite MAD.
Just to be clear, this is only a couple of levels of druid to get the totem feature, right? Because playing a druid that is focused around holding concentration for summoned creatures won’t really work with rage.
Actual I am playing an exotic lizard folk barbarian (lvl 5) with a wolf totem spirit. Yes the bear would be tankier but my barb is getting more and more the centre position to manage the fights with his pack tactics feature: it supports my team member very well - we are a good unit.
Now I am searching for a next evolutional step and I am thinking about multi classing with a circle of sheperd druid. The info texts represent the actual situation aswell as the motivation of my barb:
- As the treasured item: "a vial of water from the source of a sacred river" - we freed a fairy and got her sealed source reopened.
- As the guiding aspect: "as demonstrated by the actions of the wolf, an individual's strength is nothing compared to the power of the pack" - that's my heroine.
- As the mentor: "your mentor has appeared to you only in visions. You have yet to meet this , and you are not sure such a person exists in mortal form." Well ok - we freed a fairy but this may only was an avatar of a higher and mightier entity who may speaks through this fairy in my visions, which I got.
And in general - the "totem spirit" from the martial aspect of the barbarian sounds pretty well in company with the "spirit totem" of the higher spiritual aspect of the druid.
It's a style decision but it sounds great and it feels that these 2 subclasses in special are two sides of the same medal.
What do you think?
Just remember that you cannot use spells or concentrate while raging. To facilitate still being useful, make sure to take plenty of spells that have non-combat value. The druid spell list is particularly heavy on concentration (though of course, out of combat that matters far less). Beyond that, I don’t see any particular issues other than being quite MAD.
Just to be clear, this is only a couple of levels of druid to get the totem feature, right? Because playing a druid that is focused around holding concentration for summoned creatures won’t really work with rage.
Ah neat. You get advantage on strength saves and checks due to rage and your allies can gain that same advantage from the bear (druid) totem.