Crazy warrior-poet character?

[BadMojo]

I'm currently playing a Barbarian (2nd level) and I'm interested in trying a combination of Bard & Barbarian with Frenzied Berserker thrown in the mix.

I'm having a bit of trouble getting the Bard to fit the Viking-esque Skald concept. I've looked at the UA variant Savage Bard but I'm not entirely convinced.

Any ideas on how to emulate my "homicidal berserker/bad poet" concept?

 

[Voadam]

Here is one option from Unearthed Arcana, a variant bard class

http://www.d20srd.org/srd/variant/classes/variantCharacterClasses.htm#bardVariantSavageBard

 

[Voadam]

Otherwise just take perform poetry as a cross-class skill.

 

[Kunimatyu]

I'm currently playing a Barbarian (2nd level) and I'm interested in trying a combination of Bard & Barbarian with Frenzied Berserker thrown in the mix.

I'm having a bit of trouble getting the Bard to fit the Viking-esque Skald concept. I've looked at the UA variant Savage Bard but I'm not entirely convinced.

Any ideas on how to emulate my "homicidal berserker/bad poet" concept?

If you were Iron Heroes -- or your DM accepts the Iron Heroes usages of the Perform skill -- you could take ranks in Perform to either give your enemies penalties to attacks and saves, or give your allies bonuses to their attacks/saves, like a bard song. That's probably how I'd do it -- I played a self-flagellating iterant prophet of the apocolypse using the Iron Heroes Berserker class, and he'd use Perform(oratory) to give hellfire-and-brimstone speeches during combat(and out of it!).

 

[Aust Diamondew]

I played a bard/barbarian halfling before. It was a blast until the DM got tired of the game and we all died.

 

[Gez]

Oh, it's purely game-mechanical.

If it was for roleplay, I'd advise looking at what was written by the craziest warrior-poet of all fiction.

 

[Nonlethal Force]

I'm currently playing a Barbarian (2nd level) and I'm interested in trying a combination of Bard & Barbarian with Frenzied Berserker thrown in the mix.

I'm having a bit of trouble getting the Bard to fit the Viking-esque Skald concept. I've looked at the UA variant Savage Bard but I'm not entirely convinced.

Any ideas on how to emulate my "homicidal berserker/bad poet" concept?

Are you human? If you are ... I think human paragon would be the best choice for the following reasons:

1. Adaptive Learning means that you could designate your Perform as a class skill - regardless of future classes taken.

2. You get a bonus feat at 2nd level ... you could use that in many ways.

3. Even if you take three levels in it ... you only will lose 1 to your BAB total. That rocks!

4. If you take three levels, you get a permanent ability boost of your choosing.

5. The human paragon gets to choose 10 skills as class skills ... so you don't compromise your barbarian levels.

6. You get 4+INT skill points. So not much lost there either!

To me, it sounds like a great fit - for however many levels you want to choose. Of curse, it only works if you are human. Sorry!

 

[Rhun]

If you have access to Complete Warrior, check out the War Chanter. I find that it fits well with the barbarian/skald type concept.