D&D 5E A Barbarian, A Ranger and a designer walk into a bar

[SmokeyCriminal]

Maybe add one more level of Exhaustion so there's 7 and make it so you can't add your proficiency to Ability Checks. That way, at first, it only feels like a -2 to a fraction of your Ability Checks, Something that feels annoying but not crippling. Plus it's Thematic "You're too Tired to be better then others at this thing, but you're still not bad at it." Then just say that it gets replaced with Level 2 Disadvantage on Ability Checks.

OR! Berserker gets a Feature at Lv3 that says something like " You Ignore any Effects from Exhaustion that would give Disadvantage"

So you basically shrug off Lv1 and Lv3. That feels super badass but nitch enough to not be OP and helps with Frenzy.

 

[Jester David]

That's a lot of frenzying.
You can only frenzy when raging, and so the limit will still be the number of rages. At 3rd level you could frenzy with every rage. The ruling is just giving the barbarian an extra attack with every rage. That's a big jump in damage. You might as well just grant the barbarian an extra attack when raging.

Plus, Hit Dice are a big part of sustaining the adventuring day. Limiting healing will just encourage characters to rest more often, so you might as well be exhausted for all the extra adventuring you'll be doing. Barbarians are a melee class and need their healing.

 

[Yunru]

I'm not sure how you managed it, but you just jumped from saying having it at will would be overpowered (except, not really compares to everything else you can do with your bonus action), to how it should be restricted by hit dice because they're a resource the player won't want to spend.

Which is it? You can't have it both ways. Either you have it at-will or with a trivial penalty, or you have a non-trivial penalty and the Berserker has to make a tough decision.

 

[rgoodbb]

D&D Jokes. Great! .......Oh.

 

[cmad1977]

A Barbarian walks into a bar naked and swinging in the breeze. The bartender says
'Hey buddy! What's with the no pants?'
'Bare totem'


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[cmad1977]

Oh. You were serious. I'm sure your version is fine. Exhaustion has never been a problem for my frenzy'er(?).


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[rgoodbb]

A Barbarian walks into a bar naked and swinging in the breeze. The bartender says
'Hey buddy! What's with the no pants?'
'Bare totem'


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Happy now. Sorry about that Yunru.