JellMoo
First Post
Wow. I'm the original author of this guide on the WotC forums. A combo of real life happenings and my D&D group falling apart lead to me pretty much abandoning the guide a ways back. Imagine my surprise when I thought to check it out, only to find that the entirety of the WotC forums were gone.
A huge thank you to Mistwell for transferring this over here! An amazing job done keeping these guides alive and well!
When I wrote this guide, so much was really theoretical. The DMG wasn't out, and actual play experience was very limited. I was drawn to the Barbarian simply because it felt so much more well rounded than previous editions. A fair amount of the info here is almost certainly outdated, and actual play experience has probably proven some good chunks of it as being wrong (or at the very least, not quite as sure as it was when I originally wrote it). It was never really intended as something for pure CharOp, but mostly as a primer to help people newer to the game to avoid certain traps, and give some ideas to what the class could do.
A huge thank you to Mistwell for transferring this over here! An amazing job done keeping these guides alive and well!
When I wrote this guide, so much was really theoretical. The DMG wasn't out, and actual play experience was very limited. I was drawn to the Barbarian simply because it felt so much more well rounded than previous editions. A fair amount of the info here is almost certainly outdated, and actual play experience has probably proven some good chunks of it as being wrong (or at the very least, not quite as sure as it was when I originally wrote it). It was never really intended as something for pure CharOp, but mostly as a primer to help people newer to the game to avoid certain traps, and give some ideas to what the class could do.