D&D 5E Barbarian preview!

[mach1.9pants]

That's Tanis and Kitiara, just so you know.

Tanis shaved his beard for the pic then? Man that is a confusing pic, either Tanis has gone Beef, super expensive sworded and clean shaven or Riverwind has gone ginger. Parkinsons art takes a lot of poetic licence, a reason why he's never been one of my faves. Your provided Elmore much better.

ANd Riverwind was a Ranger from a barbarian tribe, not a D&D class Barbarian. Another reason to drop the Barbarian class name and pick up Beserker, which describes it so much better. But, yeah, sacred cows.

 

[Savage Wombat]

Tanis shaved his beard for the pic then? Man that is a confusing pic, either Tanis has gone Beef, super expensive sworded and clean shaven or Riverwind has gone ginger. Parkinsons art takes a lot of poetic licence, a reason why he's never been one of my faves. Your provided Elmore much better.

It's from one of the prequel books, before he grew the beard. And I don't remember any explanation for any of the other art details anywhere in the text.

 

[mach1.9pants]

Fair enough he grew a beard during the 5 years the companions were seeing the world. But why on earth is he or Kit dressed like that, just awful. Not awful in and of itself but if I saw that without knowing it was DL I'd have no idea who they were.

 

[Mouseferatu]

Tanis shaved his beard for the pic then?

He didn't GROW the beard until just before Autumn Twilight. The pic is from a story set well before then.

Edit: D'oh! Way of Shadow'd!

 

[mach1.9pants]

Yeah and obviously he beefed down in those years too - not to mention his wardrobe and weaponry!

 

[pkt77242]

Double Post. Sorry.

 

[pkt77242]

That's Tanis and Kitiara, just so you know.

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There he is.

I didn't think that it was Kitiara in the picture.


Spoiler: I thought that it was the women from the mage's memory that he was sent to save.

 

[Hussar]

That's Tanis and Kitiara, just so you know.

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There he is.

Yeah, I thought that was off. I always recalled Riverwind as being described as having black hair. But my google fu brought up that pic as Riverwind. Sigh. Does fit well as a ranger though.

 

[Hussar]

Tanis shaved his beard for the pic then? Man that is a confusing pic, either Tanis has gone Beef, super expensive sworded and clean shaven or Riverwind has gone ginger. Parkinsons art takes a lot of poetic licence, a reason why he's never been one of my faves. Your provided Elmore much better.

ANd Riverwind was a Ranger from a barbarian tribe, not a D&D class Barbarian. Another reason to drop the Barbarian class name and pick up Beserker, which describes it so much better. But, yeah, sacred cows.

To be fair, when Dragonlance came out, there was no barbarian class in D&D. Dragonlance (particularly when it was being originally played) predates that Unearthed Arcana by quite a bit. Rangers quite often were associated with the barbarian archetype. Even in 2e, which also had no barbarian class, had a number of Ranger kits that were barbarian in nature (no pun intended).

 

[mach1.9pants]

To be fair, when Dragonlance came out, there was no barbarian class in D&D. Dragonlance (particularly when it was being originally played) predates that Unearthed Arcana by quite a bit. Rangers quite often were associated with the barbarian archetype. Even in 2e, which also had no barbarian class, had a number of Ranger kits that were barbarian in nature (no pun intended).

Oh yeah I know that, but also Riverwind never showed any sign of going into a rage, apart from escaping Xak Tsaroth. But also lots of Ranger-y stuff, tracking etc.