Flamestrike
Legend
Have you noticed that in action movies if a gun runs out of bullets the character throws the gun?
Guns run out of bullets in action movies?
Have you noticed that in action movies if a gun runs out of bullets the character throws the gun?
I agree with this completely. Raging to get “over the top” in an arm wrestling contest, should be a valid use. A rare social pillar win for the Barbarian should be an event that is encouraged.Its absurd that a Barbarian who uses his action to make a Strength Athletics check to escape a grapple drops out of rage afterwards.
Nah. They did scratch runes into their fingernails, but that was more of a hearth magic thing, not a berserker thing.It seems that IRL Vikings sometimes scratched a rune to their skin so the pain keeps them angry at least I think I heard that somewhere.
This probably did happen, though it may have been a signal to the berserker’s allies to back away and/or to intimidate the opponents.Or bite their shields.
Maybe if you have a really crummy shield.Exactly...or gnaw on one’s shield for a mouth full of splinters and the same effect.
Depending on who you ask, that help may have been henbane. Or it might not have been. That’s pretty hotly debated.Barbarians can use all the help they can get.
Or lead poisoning from their smelting process, I could imagine.Depending on who you ask, that help may have been henbane
The PC is only “meant” to be a “frothing frenzied fury dervish” if the player sees them that way. There is no rule or flavor text in 5e that suggest any loss of control while raging, and only one subclass even really suggests “frenzy”. Beyond that, the mechanic for losing rage is stupid to begin with. Dashing toward an enemy makes you lose rage? Really!? How? Why? Nonsense!Rules as written are pretty clear on the 'attacking the wall' thing.
Wall is not a hostile creature, it doesn't apply.
As for the 'damage yourself' option ... hmmm, well I'd be tempted to allow it, but only if the barbarian performed an actual all-out attack on themselves with their primary weapon. Quite literally attacking anything that moves. None of this 'just a flesh wound' stuff. The PC is meant to be a frothing frenzied fury dervish at this point, then they're not going to pause from their "raaah maim slaughter kill anger rip tear raaaaargh" to carefully and surgically poke 1hp of damage into their own forearm with a pin just to ... stay angry?
While there is some narrative appeal there, IME, most folks dont want to play a class that has as its defining feature a mechanic that robs the PC of agency.I think it’d be neat if raging had drawbacks as well as benefits and couldn’t be ended early.
(say, if the only enemies are below you and you think ladders are for wizards)