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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cignus_pfaccari" data-source="post: 3972845" data-attributes="member: 14557">Which is, surprise, within possible human characteristics.  I went to school with several 7' tall people.The culture you're referring to is made up primarily of humans.  That's pretty much the reason none of them are gnomes, elves, or dwarves.And they're not significantly different enough.  It's been a while since I read the early Drizzt stuff, but they were pretty obviously human, and referred to as such IIRC.Well, strictly speaking it's the Greek word for foreigner (i.e. the Greeks heard "bar bar bar bar" when someone wasn't speaking Greek).  In current practice, it means someone who's not civilized.  In D&D parlance, it's also a specific term for a class, or a person who has levels in that class.Therefore, it's possible to have a Barbarian (savage) Barbarian (class).  It's also possible to have a Barbarian Fighter, or a Civilized Barbarian.And the use of "barbarian" as a class title when it has specific cultural references has been brought up many, many times.Actually, it does have bearing on your comment.  That's exactly what you were looking for, in fact; barbarians in that game are a separate human subrace.Personally, if you're looking to have an actual subrace, I'd go and use the Neanderthal stats from Frostburn.  If it makes you feel better, the characters can visit a plastic surgeon to make them look tall, improbably bronzed, and Conanesque.Brad</blockquote>

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