Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 6307823" data-attributes="member: 58197">Barbarians aren't entirely without options in that regard. If you follow the Path of the Totem Warrior, you can get some movement and skill boosts. Still, I agree that they would benefit from being able to go farther toward the &quot;wilderness warrior&quot; end of the &quot;wilderness warrior/berserker&quot; spectrum. Maybe WotC was worried about stepping too much on the ranger's toes.Fighters get zilch, of course, unless they use some of their bonus feats to diversify. That seems intentional. WotC evidently decided not to mandate minimum competency in the noncombat pillars; if you're the type of player whose only interest is carnage and wreckage--and there are quite a few such--you can play a fighter, put all your feats into boosting your fighting prowess, and lumber silently along in the party's wake until you hear the magic words &quot;Roll initiative.&quot;I'm not sure I'd have gone that way, but the noncombat pillars have always posed a design challenge.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 6307823, member: 58197"] Barbarians aren't [I]entirely[/I] without options in that regard. If you follow the Path of the Totem Warrior, you can get some movement and skill boosts. Still, I agree that they would benefit from being able to go farther toward the "wilderness warrior" end of the "wilderness warrior/berserker" spectrum. Maybe WotC was worried about stepping too much on the ranger's toes. Fighters get zilch, of course, unless they use some of their bonus feats to diversify. That seems intentional. WotC evidently decided not to mandate minimum competency in the noncombat pillars; if you're the type of player whose only interest is carnage and wreckage--and there are quite a few such--you can play a fighter, put all your feats into boosting your fighting prowess, and lumber silently along in the party's wake until you hear the magic words "Roll initiative." I'm not sure I'd have gone that way, but the noncombat pillars have always posed a design challenge. [/QUOTE]

Verification