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Message: <blockquote data-quote="katahn" data-source="post: 4203397" data-attributes="member: 65004">Like another poster said, if the exact class doesn't exist in 4e to cover an existing 3e character you can either wait until more 4e material comes out (and it will) to cover it, you could create your own material, or you can see if the general concept of the character can be made to fit in existing content.A 4e fighter may not have any rage/besekerish abilities in 4e, but honestly there's no way to know that until June and we see the 4e PHB.  But even if they don't, there's nothing stopping you and nothing wrong with playing a fighter as being hot-tempered and/or from a savage culture.But, if the mechanics of the barbarian class in 3e are that important to you, if it is beyond the limit of what you find acceptable to role-play a barbaric fighter instead, then you really are limited to the first two of the options I listed above.  Either wait for the class to be released officially (likely in the PHB2) or make one up yourself.Either way, the entire point of the OP's essay was that to translate a 3e character to 4e will have to focus on concepts and ignore mechanics.  It may very well have to focus on storytelling to explain why the character cannot do "X" that they could before.  This isn't new, the WotC guys had to do that with the Forgotten Realms and did so with the spellplague.Fortunately my campaign in 4e is an entirely new campaign so I'm not struggling with the same issue.  But if I were playing the campaign I was last in, where I was playing a half-elf psion/psychic-warrior, I imagine I'd do something like this....Aeleron Half-Elven, psion and psychic warrior... That's how I was once known, what seems like an eternity ago anyway... before the wars that engulfed our world.  I saw horrors in that war that would blast the soul of any sane man, made worse by my telepathic talents that let me feel the pain of the dying.So many died, I couldn't bear it.  I started drinking... and drinking... and drinking.  I couldn't face the horrors and sought to drown them, or maybe just myself, in the bottle.  The horrors didn't go away, but my gifts did.  Maybe it was the ale, maybe the psychic stress of so much death, terror, and pain... All I know is I woke one morning and the world of my mind had gone dark and light hasn't returned.These days I'm what folks might call a "warlord".  I call myself old and grizzled, but folks in a fight say I'm capable of rallying the troops and inspiring them to do more than they thought they could.  Maybe it's a vestige of my old talents, or maybe they're just humoring an old half-breed.I hear rumors that some of the old orders of psions survived, in distant corners of the world.  Maybe someday I'll go out and find them, maybe they can help me find the mind's light again.  Or maybe I'll just go to the pub for another round or four.....So there you go.  I couldn't make my half-elf psion/psychic warrior in 4e so rather than try to (which I probably could have by going wizard(warrior) and re-fluffing abilities to describe them as psychic rather than arcane powers) I decided to base character development and storyline on the very idea that now he couldn't be psionic (no actual official rules for it) anymore.  I rather like the idea of the burned out old guy who wants to hope he might someday return to the glory of his youth, but is very much afraid it's gone forever.  Your mileage may vary of course.</blockquote>

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