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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6132108" data-attributes="member: 1465">I think all Barbarian options have their reasons: class, subclass, subrace and background.In my suggestion as subrace rather than background, there was another reason and that was that IMHO skills were not enough to capture the feel of barbarian, for example skills don't affect general physical resiliency and robustness, which is generally expected from barbarian characters to have better, on average. This is why I thought subrace would be also mechanically better, since (sub)races have a free-form and thus can be used as containers for everything: you could easily make a subrace that grants extra HP and bonuses to certain physical ST for example, while having it as a background would have been IMHO too restrictive to capture the feel, it would have easily ended up as just granting obvious skills like Survival, Listen & Spot and maybe Nature Lore. BUT this is now going to change, NOW backgrounds are indeed becoming more free-form and open-ended, so this means they will be much better able to represent barbarians than I once thought.</blockquote>