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<blockquote data-quote="Lancelot" data-source="post: 7402216" data-attributes="member: 30022">Cubicle 7's Adventures in Middle Earth game (which is basically 5e D&amp;D for Lord of the Rings) has a variant of the Barbarian class called the &quot;Slayer&quot;. Just like regular D&amp;D, you choose a &quot;path&quot; at 3rd level which further distinguishes your character. One of these is the &quot;Rider&quot; path, which actually caught me by surprise.The path emulates a non-knight mounted warrior, similar to how Eomer is portrayed in the Lord of the Rings movies. It's spears-on-horseback, rather than Mongol/Saracen mounted archers. This was the first time I thought about barbarians as something other than foot-sloggers with two-handed weapons, wading in gore.You could do something similar with basic D&amp;D rules. Take the Mounted Combatant feat and a lance as a weapon, start out with a horse, but then take the Magic Initiate feat (!!!) at later levels for access to animal friendship, become buddies with a bear/rhino/t-rex... and then pose for a heavy metal album cover. For added coolness, give your new beast mount a cute name (like &quot;Poopsie the War Rhino&quot;) and develop character-based objectives such as upgrading his saddle, building him an awesome stables, and be-decking him in the skulls of your enemies.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lancelot, post: 7402216, member: 30022"] Cubicle 7's [I]Adventures in Middle Earth[/I] game (which is basically 5e D&D for Lord of the Rings) has a variant of the Barbarian class called the "Slayer". Just like regular D&D, you choose a "path" at 3rd level which further distinguishes your character. One of these is the "Rider" path, which actually caught me by surprise. The path emulates a non-knight mounted warrior, similar to how Eomer is portrayed in the Lord of the Rings movies. It's spears-on-horseback, rather than Mongol/Saracen mounted archers. This was the first time I thought about barbarians as something other than foot-sloggers with two-handed weapons, wading in gore. You could do something similar with basic D&D rules. Take the Mounted Combatant feat and a lance as a weapon, start out with a horse, but then take the Magic Initiate feat (!!!) at later levels for access to [I]animal friendship[/I], become buddies with a bear/rhino/t-rex... and then pose for a heavy metal album cover. For added coolness, give your new beast mount a cute name (like "Poopsie the War Rhino") and develop character-based objectives such as upgrading his saddle, building him an awesome stables, and be-decking him in the skulls of your enemies. [/QUOTE]

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