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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dark Jezter" data-source="post: 2402845" data-attributes="member: 1015">You and I must have pretty different campaigns, because since 3e came out, I can probably count all the times a barbarian's rage ended before combat was over on a single hand.  IME, most 3e combat encounters are over in 4-7 rounds, although you'll occasionally get one that lasts longer than that.In any case, I pick the barbarian (at least the 3.5e barbarian, who is much better than his 3.0e predecessor), mainly because after a lot of time spent playing as both the fighter and barbarian classes, I've observed that the barbarian is a much more powerful melee combatant than the fighter.(Oh, and despite the implications of some of the posts in this thread, nowhere in the rules does it say that a barbarian has to charge into a pack of balors like a suicidal madman.  You can use cover, choke-points, and formations just as much as the fighter can. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> )</blockquote>