Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 8212232" data-attributes="member: 8863">Ah the Barbarian's Handbook.&nbsp; I was looking for Conan, they gave me fantasy Indians.&nbsp; I left it on the shelf.I took a look at it more recently, and basically it's little more than an update of the 1e Barbarian.&nbsp; Why exactly the Barbarian didn't make the cut for 2e I'm not sure, but I suspect a few key factors.&nbsp; The survival abilities were supplanted by the NWP system, it didn't like functioning with spellcasters and got XP for destroying magic items which were probably bad for party cohesion, it had ridiculously high XP requirements, and it was a UA class, and none of those made the cut for 2e's base classes.So yeah, this book basically updated 1e stuff while removing some of the problematic elements, but ended up with something vague.&nbsp; Then because that wasn't enough to really fill out a 128 page book, it shoved in yet another one of 2e's takes on shamans/tribal spellcasters which by 1995 was pretty unnecessary.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Orius, post: 8212232, member: 8863"] Ah the Barbarian's Handbook. I was looking for Conan, they gave me fantasy Indians. I left it on the shelf. I took a look at it more recently, and basically it's little more than an update of the 1e Barbarian. Why exactly the Barbarian didn't make the cut for 2e I'm not sure, but I suspect a few key factors. The survival abilities were supplanted by the NWP system, it didn't like functioning with spellcasters and got XP for destroying magic items which were probably bad for party cohesion, it had ridiculously high XP requirements, and it was a UA class, and none of those made the cut for 2e's base classes. So yeah, this book basically updated 1e stuff while removing some of the problematic elements, but ended up with something vague. Then because that wasn't enough to really fill out a 128 page book, it shoved in yet another one of 2e's takes on shamans/tribal spellcasters which by 1995 was pretty unnecessary. [/QUOTE]

Verification