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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nifft" data-source="post: 3473738" data-attributes="member: 6562">Barbarian -- Here's some rules that I've been considering.For everyone: You get +2 Education Skill Points each level (8 at 1st level) which you can put in any Craft, Profession or Knowledge. These skills are always bought one-for-one -- you cannot purchase "cross-class" skill ranks with these points.Then, make Barbarian and Aristocrat into background feats (which I'll call "Savage" and "Noble"). Background feats can only be taken at 1st level, of course.Savage [Background]You were raised in the wild.- Your Education Skill Points must be spent on Strength based skills instead. Intimidate, Listen and Survival are considered class skills for all your classes.- You are illiterate (and must spend skill points to become literate).- Any class that would grant you Heavy Armor proficiency instead grants only Medium.- You gain +2 hit points at 1st level.Noble [Background]You had a privileged upbringing.- Your Education Skill Points must be spent on Perform, Knowledge or Speak Language. Appraise, Diplomacy and Sense Motive are considered class skills for all your classes.- You gain a +2 bonus on Fort saves against poison and disease.- You are proficient with long swords. If you would already be proficient with long swords, you instead gain proficiency with bastard swords.- - -Now we can follow up with feats for other class features, like Rage:Rage [Fighter]Prereqs: Savage, BAB +1, Intimidate 4 ranksBenefit: You can Rage 1/day (as the Barbarian class feature)Extra Rage [Fighter]Prereqs: RageBenefit: You can Rage +2/day.Special: This feat stacks with itself.Savage Toughness [Fighter]Prereqs: SavageBenefit: You gain +1 hp per HD.Greater Rage [Fighter]Prereqs: Savage, Rage, BAB +11Benefit: You gain Greater Rage (as the Core Barbarian class feature).Now a Savage Fighter can take some feats and become somewhat Barbarian like; but a Rogue could also go feral. I'd expect the average Barbarian would be a Savage Fighter / Rogue. However...- - -Let's also make a Ranger variant -- well, just a ranger Combat Style really.2: Fast Movement -- Your land speed increases by +10 ft. when you are wearing light or no armor -- or maybe not, since longstrider is a Ranger spell.6: Uncanny Dodge -- as the Rogue class feature.11: Rage (if you already have Rage, you instead get Greater Rage).... or something like that. <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=":)" />Cheers, -- N</blockquote>

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