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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 8103005" data-attributes="member: 7006">It's interesting how the different words will probably evoke different ideas in people's head about the stereotypical identifier.If you go with Barbarian, obviously it's going to evoke Conan.  It's been that way from the beginning.If you go with Berserker, I think most people's first thought would probably be Vikings.  That's the culture that I think berserking specifically brings to mind.If you go Ravager or Rager, there's no specific culture or identity that immediately comes to mind for either of them.  There were the Ravagers in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, but that wouldn't be thought of in relation to D&D.  And the word Rager makes most people think 'wild party', not 'someone who rages'.  Heck... the first thing I thought of when I saw 'ravager' was the crazed group from the TV show Firefly... only to then look it up and discover they were actually called 'Reavers'... another name that falls into this same pot of undefined identity.At the end of the day... because most people take the character class name and identity either at face value and play it as is stereotypical, OR they purposefully use the class as merely a building block and the class name and identifiers do not in any way inform who the character is or how they behave... I don't think it really matters all that much.  If we stick with Barbarian, people will either play Conan clones like normal or they will interpret the 'rage' mechanic as some other thing that results in any of the other potential names being just as incorrect for the character's background as Barbarian would be.</blockquote>

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