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Message: <blockquote data-quote="dead_radish" data-source="post: 583022" data-attributes="member: 5560">Remember that you are faster than most people.  Get in there and hit things!  Hard!Counter to that - dwarven barbarians are very very nice.  The con bonus is great, the boost to will saves (+4 vs some spells, +2 from rage) is amazingly useful.  The ability to chug poison as though it were beer at higher levels is entertaining.  You're a bit slower, but....  Get Rhino Hide armor.  It's amazingly useful when charging.Try to convince your DM to allow Reckless Attack from QF - you can reduce your ac and add to damage.  Very very very handy.I'd suggest taking 5 levels of barb (Uncanny dodge I & II, rages, 5d12 hp), then moving into Fighter, or a PrC.  And take a look at the Frenzied Berserker in MoW - if you have a cleric to cast Emotion: Calm and Heal on you, you are an amazing thing.Extra rage is a great feat, especially if you're going to multiclass (which I recommend strongly).  As is Greater Resiliency, especially if your dm buys the argument that "It says "As a class feature."  In 5 levels, I could get it.  Thus, it is a class feature, per wands."  Fast healing is nice, but not needed.Also, be sure to buy up the skills you need early on - Wilderness Lore, etc.  They are rare as class skills for other classes.A barb 5/fighter 4 using his improved crit keen weapon specialized greatsword who rolls a 15 is a very very scary thing to see.  Oh - and if you take power attack, your party doesn't need a rogue.  "You see a locked door."  "I rage, power attack for 8, and do *roll* 31 points of damage to the door."  "It's open."</blockquote>

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