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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 7066985" data-attributes="member: 20564">You may get a bit more replies in the Character Build forum.Half-Orc Barbarian with a Great Axe is both a classic and also a very effective buid both offensively and defensively.  Reckless Attack will increate your crit chance which does 3d12 weapon damage instead of 2d12 due to half-orc.  You take half damage from everything but psychic when raging, and half orc's Reckless Endurance can keep you up even if you are hit to zero.  Darkvision is another bonus.GWM also works nicely with barbarians.  Reckless Attack both lands blows when you have -5 and gives you crits more often so you get a bonus action weapon attack.  This can work with half-ocr (above) but doesn't need to.  Barbarians don't have a lot competing for their bonus action.Polearm Mastery is a bit of a different beast.  It's a consistent bonus action attack, which works well with rage giving you a melee bonus.  But it means that you get minimal advantage from the crit/slay boost of GWM, so I wouldn't recommend both (at least not early on in adventuring).Dual Wielding is an odd duck - with extra attack at 5th you'll do more with big weapons, though rage bonus to melee is nice.  Would have to use STR to get reckless attack.  Some people talk about a dex barbarian and there's a guide for them, but they miss out on a number of barbarian class features so I would recommend avoiding that for your first barbarian.Human(v) can give you a feat early.  Since you're starting at 6th it depends on the other bonuses.  For example, human(v) can give +1/+1 to two stats, a feat, and then +2 (or +1/+1) ASI at 4th, whcih is a bit above a half-orc with +2/+1 and then a feat - but the half-orc gets lots of other goodies.With your strength and if trained in athletics, you'll be a pretty good grappler as well.  Rage gives you advantage on these checks.  Don't ignore this, it's a useful at odd times.Take some thrown weapons - so that if you are raging and can't get next to someone you can still attack from range and maintain your rage.By DMG encounter guidelines of 6-8 encounters per day, your 4 will cover 2/3 to 1/2 of them.  However almost every DM I know runs less (sometimes harder) encounters in practice and rarely gets that many, so don't be shy about kicking off a rage.With resistance, you take half damage - if a ally would have taken 40 and you only take 20, it's half the healing resources after the battle to bring you back.  So you taking damage instead of your teammates is a good thing.  Suck up all the aggro.  Don't be afraid you'll go down with half damage and d12 HD.  Don't neglect your CON.  On the flip side, don't worry about a low AC overmuch - if you grant advantage they'll be hitting anyhow.</blockquote>

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