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Has D&D abandoned the "martial barbarian"?
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<blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 8366229" data-attributes="member: 907"><p>The problem, I think, is "What differentiates the Warrior of Big Muscles" from a fighter with a high Strength score?</p><p></p><p>The core thing that differentiates a barbarian from a fighter is that the barbarian has Rage. The fighter has various trained techniques at their disposal (whether those are in the form of battlemaster maneuvers or something else), but the barbarian can enter a state of enhanced fighting ability. So it's only natural for barbarian subclasses to build off that enhanced state. And even out of that state, the barbarian is clearly not an entirely martial character – something has to be going on in order to let them use Constitution for unarmored AC.</p><p></p><p>That said, I think there's probably room for a barbarian subclass that deals more in athleticism than supernatural things. The problem with that, I think, is that most of the things that would feel natural are already covered by the Totem Warrior subclass if you look at what they actually <strong>do</strong>, except for the flavor.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Staffan, post: 8366229, member: 907"] The problem, I think, is "What differentiates the Warrior of Big Muscles" from a fighter with a high Strength score? The core thing that differentiates a barbarian from a fighter is that the barbarian has Rage. The fighter has various trained techniques at their disposal (whether those are in the form of battlemaster maneuvers or something else), but the barbarian can enter a state of enhanced fighting ability. So it's only natural for barbarian subclasses to build off that enhanced state. And even out of that state, the barbarian is clearly not an entirely martial character – something has to be going on in order to let them use Constitution for unarmored AC. That said, I think there's probably room for a barbarian subclass that deals more in athleticism than supernatural things. The problem with that, I think, is that most of the things that would feel natural are already covered by the Totem Warrior subclass if you look at what they actually [B]do[/B], except for the flavor. [/QUOTE]
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