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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hawk Diesel" data-source="post: 7304448" data-attributes="member: 59848">When you say the theme, do you mean the fluff I added at the beginning? I literally just put five minutes of thought into it before posting this as a means of differentiating it from the classic interpretation of the Battlerager. I was gonna give it a different name altogether, but did not want to do that much work at the moment. I was thinking about how XGtE portrayed Barbarians as using their rage to summon ancestral guardians or emit fire and lightning, and that got me wondering why Battleragers even needed armor to get or use spikes? Why couldn't they be more like Marrow from X-Men or Green Lantern willing spike constructs across his body?As for the archetype, I don't know if it was ever supposed to be an "armored" barbarian so much as the spikes just required the armor as a medium to explain their presence in the initial design (I'm not sure if this is true, just my personal thought/interpretation). I've actually never thought of a barbarian using heavy armor. Probably because Unarmored Defense is so effective and I don't typically think of Barbarians as being concerned with protection (as demonstrated by their damage resistance and reckless attack).</blockquote>