Barbarian Rage noises!!!! (lack of...)

[Arc]

Do bard players have to sing at your table?

Do you make fighter players swing a stick around?

Do monk players have to go through a kata?

Do wizard players have to wave their hands and recite nonsense-words?

Do cleric and paladin players have to pray?

Do rogues have to dress all in black and sneek up behind you to sneek attack?

Do rangers have follow a trail of pringles crumbs to track?

If ANY of the above, I'm very, very glad I don't play at your table.

To sum up, yes, it is unreasonable.

If you don't sing, you're not a bard. You're just the annoying dude who wanted to have a little bit of spells, some nice skills, and a mediocre combat ability. You're a bard when you paraphrase a line or two from modern songs to fit the effect/setting.

Hmmm... our rogue does have a tendency towards black. And the wizard occasionally yelled out 'Hadoken!" when casting something impressive.

Maybe we are a bit weird.

 

[Jeremy757]

To borrow a phrase that was popular not so long ago....

"If we can't laugh, the terrorists have already won."

You don't want to let them win, do you?

OH GOD!!! There are Terrorists here! Why didn't you say so sooner. AHHHHHHH. Id better turn off my computer and go hide in my bath tub.

 

[Maldur]

Bets rage description I ever read ( I have no clue where) was the berserker that started laughing at the start of battle. It starts as a chuckle or gigle and it increases to genuine laughing fits in the heart of battle. Very chilling idea. But very fitting

 

[Speaker]

At first, I thought of making a mocking post that references the whole 3.5 debate. Then I realized that someone would jump on me for it, claiming something along the lines that "the attitude taken by WOTC towards audible raging (the barbarian ability) reflects their desire to (pick one, or two, or all four):

1. Make money from the public,
2. Refine and enhance the essence of D&D,
3. Destroy the world of gaming, as we know it forevermore,
4. Raise gaming towards the pinnacle of our dreams.

After realizing this, I decided not to. Ah, well. Opportunity lost.

 

[Marimmar@Home]

Hey TracerBullet42, don't sweat it, I'm with you on the topic. A barbarian should make guttural noises and start drooling when about to rage. If you don't like doing that I recommend playing something like a paladin or nononsense monk. Being a barb is all about the fun.

And about Tsyr's remark, don't take it too serious, his group seems to be more into serious role-playing than dungeon-delving-hack-feasts-for-fun*. I bet a really chaotic barbarian wouldn't fit at his table.

DM: Well, there's an old man coming up to your party and asks...
Brb: "NOONE TALKS TO GRAVOCK UNASKED - ROOOARGH!"
DM: Uhhh, whatever...

Our bards hum annoying tunes and our barbs roar, noone forces them to do it and we're all having fun and in between fights we're even doing the other role playing things like talking to strangers, solving mysteries etc...

~Marimmar

*This was not meant as an offence, just an observation that role-playing styles differ.

 

[astralpwka]

Our core fighter has his practice swords at the table. Our cleric says mock prayers to his tabletop god, our bard sings (quite well, in fact), and our wizard shouts "Shim Shim Alabim" (Johnny Quest quote... ever tried spelling that?).

One barbarian in the group was named Rock. Everything was "Rock Smash!!!"

Of course every single one of us in the group did way to much LARPing a few years back, and I think this messes people up...

 

[MeepoTheMighty]

Do bard players have to sing at your table?

Yes, but only 80's tunes.

Do you make fighter players swing a stick around?

Yes, space permitting. It's the archers you need to watch out for.

Do monk players have to go through a kata?

No, but plenty of "heeeeee-yah!s" and YB-style attack names are definitely in order.

Do wizard players have to wave their hands and recite nonsense-words?

Well, how else are they going to reach 8th level and learn to cast the real spells?

Do cleric and paladin players have to pray?

If properly munchkinned, they make the DM have to pray.

Do rogues have to dress all in black and sneek up behind you to sneek attack?

Hey, that's a good idea! We need more ninja at the table.

Do rangers have follow a trail of pringles crumbs to track?

Er..umm..can't think of anything funny here.

Edit...not that that ever stopped me before

 

[frankthedm]

Do bard players have to sing at your table?

Do you make fighter players swing a stick around?

Do monk players have to go through a kata?

Do wizard players have to wave their hands and recite nonsense-words?

Do cleric and paladin players have to pray?

Do rogues have to dress all in black and sneek up behind you to sneek attack?

Do rangers have follow a trail of pringles crumbs to track?

If ANY of the above, I'm very, very glad I don't play at your table.

To sum up, yes, it is unreasonable.

Some players try singing, Very poorly, i even considered running a bard who inspired despair.

Hear me children and scream the night…
Know that soon the stars will be right

They ruled here once, They will rule again
And soon dear children …
Their rule will begin
Sticks? No, our host is into real weapons. And break time often means kendo practice.

Not many monks yet, but moving around the players chairs seem to require a kata.

We don’t have to do somatics or verbals at the table, but some of us do it for flair or when the other players, without the appropriate knowledges, only need to know your ‘casting a spell’ Detect magic being a fav. along with custom spells.

Praying in character is the only time my players ever do, since they are in the 'Religion is stoopid' crowd.

The whole group wears black too often. Since there are plenty of weapons laying around personal space is very respected.

The floor in the game room is so bad the five-second-rule does NOT apply. Tracking a single pringle trail is out of the question.

On the most part my group considers it getting in character. We wouldn’t force it but it is encouraged.