A weird thing I noticed about the Barbarian: “Full Plate and Packing Steel” allows you to ignore the “clumsy” tag, but the only starting armor available to the class is chainmail, that doesn’t have that tag. I know that, as a barbarian, I can walk into a smith’s forge and buy a plate 5 minutes into the game but still… that feels weird.
A weird thing I noticed about the Barbarian: “Full Plate and Packing Steel” allows you to ignore the “clumsy” tag,…
A weird thing I noticed about the Barbarian: “Full Plate and Packing Steel” allows you to ignore the “clumsy” tag,…
yup, probably need to change that
Also, maybe my concept of a “barbarian” is baised, but the whole idea of one in a plate armor doesn’t really sit well with me
That’s not something we’re changing. We deliberately made it an option, so it can go either way, but we came up with a list of armored characters we thought met the archetype just as well.
I was just talking about that with a friend and we agree with Ernesto. My favorite Conan is Arnold S. in the eponymous movie. He’s been able to wear an armor because he’s been trained in the arena. For me a true barbarian just wears hide underpants.
Robert Howard’s Conan wears armor whenever it is to his benefit in the stories.
The DW barbarian isn’t a straight port of a D&D class (thank goodness); it’s a foreign warrior. Why shouldn’t a foreign warrior be able to wear armor? I’m glad that the option is built into the class.
My player’s Barbarian took it… Now we just have to get her some cool plate mail.
We had this entire list of barbarian-ish characters we wanted to at least think about. One of my favorites was Robert Baratheon. Dude just wants to fight battles, drink, and eat. And yeah, he’s fully armored, but in every other way he’s a complete barbarian.
That got us thinking that maybe barbarians aren’t all Ahnald in his leather undies. We didn’t want to force either way—they’re both great takes on the concept—so we made it an option. That’s the best part: this isn’t even one of those things were we say “if you want to modify the class that way, go for it.” Its built right in! If you prefer the half-naked barbarian it’s an awesome playable option, but so is Robert Baratheon.
Good call on Robert Baratheon — didn’t even think of that!
There’s also a cool Robert/Conan continuity where they both find ruling sucks. They upset power, take the throne, and then hate it.
And now i am thinking about a 1001 nights game with a european knight as the Barbarian.
Alfred Rudzki You’re ruining 30 years of body oil fantaisies…
Robert is a Barbarian in the sense that he is a passion-driven outsider. He doesn’t give a shit about the “rules” and got his power by bloody conquest. He also hates the crown he’s forced to wear.
He’s actually a fair bit more like Conan than you might expect.
Robert Baratheon…..DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDE.
Nerdgasm
He was the real one…
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