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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dark Jezter" data-source="post: 1370171" data-attributes="member: 1015">Yep; it was pretty much just standing toe-to-toe and hitting each other until one guy dropped.  The barbarian raged and fought with a greatsword, the fighter fought sword & shield and had all the weapon focus and specialization feats for his bastard sword, etc.  I only used content from the core rulebooks;  no Complete Warrior or other suppliments.The fighter did have a higher AC than the barb, but at 20th level, attack bonuses were so high that AC was pretty much irrelevent.I was a little surprised at the results myself.  When I ran this test in 3.0, the fighter won most of the time, but with mighty rage and the 3.5e version of Power Attack, I found that the barbarian really had an edge in melee power.  Of course, the fighter was fighting one-handed, so he was kind of at a disadvantage when it came to Power Attacking.</blockquote>