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Message: <blockquote data-quote="David Argall" data-source="post: 579089" data-attributes="member: 4481">barbarian ideasI'd suggest getting hold of Masters of the Wild, and then taking Extra Rages [2 extra rages a day].  For the low level barbarian, it is often an agony to ask at each combat "Rage now or save for the possible big fight later?".  Well worth being able to say "Both!".    YMMV, but I would forget Power Attack and Cleave unless your DM is going to be throwing lots of runts at you.  When you take on giant<s>, you get to use Cleave very rarely.  Power Attack is a lousy feat of itself, good only for access to other feats [which I also think poorly of.]</s><s>   You are a charging raging barbarian.  You are maybe +10 to damage, which means your power attack improves damage by maybe 10%.  But the minus to your chance to hit normally works out to be a lot more than 10%.  Result, you do less overall damage when you use the feat.  And if you do go in for Cleave, it will normally mean you will miss out on a number of chances to cleave.</s><s></s><s>    Now I would advise planning eventual multi-classing, probably with fighter.  Barbarian is not as badly frontloaded as ranger, but your higher level barbarian gets rather little.  [Raging once a day is big stuff.  The 4th time a day is getting rare.  and 1-2 hp damage reduction doesn't mean much when the enemy is giving you 20+]   I'm not sure if you should quit barbarian after 2, 4, 5, or 6 levels, but some place in there, you should become "civilized".</s></blockquote>

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