What does a barbarian need?

[Paul Farquhar]

A straight answer?

 

[JustinCase]

Hot water, good dentishtry and shoft lavatory paper.

But seriously, immovable rods, magic weapons and belts of giant strength (if Str isn't already that high) seem like the most obvious items. I've played a barbarian who carried a lightning bolt sword (adapted Javelin of Lightning to a greatsword) which was a lot of fun, and it made for some tactical decisions (if I hurl the sword and hit multiple opponents, I'm unarmed until I can retrieve it...).

For fun roleplaying opportunities, you could look for non-combat things like the cloak of billowing or dread helm (XGtE).

 

[jasper]

a day at the salon to get their hair done, nails and a nice massage.

 

[jgsugden]

Antidepressants, mood stabilizers and antipsychotics.

 

[loverdrive]

Antidepressants

Well, some AD tend to make people angry. Cipralex makes me want to cave people's skulls in with a broken armchair leg for the most petty of reasons.

 

[Umbran]

Antidepressants, mood stabilizers and antipsychotics.

Psychopharmacology is not your strong suit. Stick to your day job.

 

[Ancalagon]

Hi everyone,

Earlier this year we released a free app that helps barbarians in need to calculate their attack and damage bonuses. This all started due to the barbarian in our party struggling with number crunching when a few bonuses were thrown into the mix.

However now that he's no longer stressing over adding numbers to add to the dice, he's looking for useful items to purchase/acquire. He has his trusty great axe, light armour, healing potions and bow, but wants to get creative. Looking for unique support items roughly levels 0-10.
What are some of the more creative items barbarians in your party have carried on them that you could recommend? Fellow barbarians, he needs your help!

We're hoping to add any feedback into our app so current and future barbarians including himself can be inspired by these items

For anyone wandering about the app:
Android App
Web Browser version

What edition are you playing?

And no I'm not clicking on your link to find out.

 

[Brotton Goodfellow]

Periapt of Wound Closure so the rest of the team doesn’t have to worry when the barbarian jumps into the middle of a scrum whilst raging.
Necklace of Fireball couldn’t hurt either.

 

[Undrave]

Cloak of Displacement, it grants disadvantage to all attacks against you until your are hit, and then its effect comes back online at the start of your turn.

This would cancel the granted advantage when using Reckless Attack and make them even more hard to bring down. Particularly useful against missile attacks early on in the fight, allowing them to just charge ahead unscathed.

 

[jgsugden]

Psychopharmacology is not your strong suit. Stick to your day job.

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