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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 8547534" data-attributes="member: 87792">I'm going to slightly disagree with [USER=7635]@Remathilis[/USER] . Rage isn't magic in 5e but it's normally a consequence of magic. If we look at all the official barbarian subclasses in D&D 5e the following are not magical.<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Berserker (PHB). Just mundane rage. And it's a subclass people are warned away from</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Battlerager (SCAG). If anyone even remembers it exists. Rage + spiky armour + dwarf. I've never seen in play or anyone want to play.</li> </ul>The following are all pretty explicitly magical:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Totem Warrior (PHB): Magic light to the point it would be my choice for a non-magical barbarian; you explicitly gain powers from your totem animal</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ancestral Guardian (XGtE): Your rage involves summoning explicit spectral protectors</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Storm Herald (XGtE): Summon the power of the storm and get elemental damage auras</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Zealot (XGtE): Explicitly channel divine power with necrotic or radiant smites</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Beast (TCoE): Transform into a beast, growing fangs, claws, or a tail</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Wild Magic (TCoE): Do I really need to explain how wild magic is magical?</li> </ul>Seriously, the barbarian in 5e is based around channeling short bursts of power and almost all the subclasses make those bursts of power magical. But they aren't all from the same source any more than the sorcerer's magic is all from the same source.</blockquote>

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