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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Undrave" data-source="post: 8076846" data-attributes="member: 7015698">It's a Barbarian, you don't take a Barbarian for their stellar out of combat utility... And even if you did, most of their utility comes out of Athletics (STR). A Barbarian hits thing with STR or they don't gain the benefit of their major class feature, Rage. Low STR means lower accuracy and lower damage. I guess if you really pump up your CON (Stout Halfling gets +1) and your DEX (+2 for Halfling) you could just stand there and soak hits? Which, I guess, isn't THAT bad either... Hmmm...I guess I just had bad experiences with players who field inneficient characters and become a drag on the party 'for flavor' and are proud of it... As if being an interesting character and be good at your job was mutually exclusive. In one SW:SAGA game we had a free droid scoundrel player who, whenever fight broke out, would instantly drop prone and waste his turn aiming. Then, when people started dropping he'd stopped shooting and would just crawl around looting body. That was funny once, but after a while the DM was better off not counting him as part of the encounter when designing them and everybody was tired of his shenanigans.</blockquote>