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<blockquote data-quote="Macbeth" data-source="post: 5942383" data-attributes="member: 11259">Yeah, our Barbarian would have certainly had some of the classic Barbarian-style combat moves. We were thinking of basing his combat abilities on taking risks/damage. We just don't want to call that &quot;Rage&quot; since we tried designing down that avenue and it didn't work quite right for us. Rage is tricky, since it usually involves some element of losing control. Every time we attempted that it either didn't seem to matter that you lost control or it mattered way too much and felt constraining.So we started looking at &quot;Rage&quot; as more of a disregard for consequences and took it from there. Instead of just making a move that says you lose control, instead we were thinking of moves that made &quot;losing control&quot; and taking dangerous risks the way to really build up power. In a way that's still rage: you're still benefiting from going crazy. We just were phrasing that in such a way that you had to actually be a little crazy, instead of just saying &quot;I'm raging now.&quot;Anyway, that's all on hold for now as the Druid has won our poll by a handy margin. In fact, it had such a large margin that we got a head start on the art and design and it's nearly ready to playtest.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Macbeth, post: 5942383, member: 11259"] Yeah, our Barbarian would have certainly had some of the classic Barbarian-style combat moves. We were thinking of basing his combat abilities on taking risks/damage. We just don't want to call that "Rage" since we tried designing down that avenue and it didn't work quite right for us. Rage is tricky, since it usually involves some element of losing control. Every time we attempted that it either didn't seem to matter that you lost control or it mattered way too much and felt constraining. So we started looking at "Rage" as more of a disregard for consequences and took it from there. Instead of just making a move that says you lose control, instead we were thinking of moves that made "losing control" and taking dangerous risks the way to really build up power. In a way that's still rage: you're still benefiting from going crazy. We just were phrasing that in such a way that you had to actually be a little crazy, instead of just saying "I'm raging now." Anyway, that's all on hold for now as the Druid has won our poll by a handy margin. In fact, it had such a large margin that we got a head start on the art and design and it's nearly ready to playtest. [/QUOTE]

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