If one has a party focused almost entirely on melee-focused characters, is there any real potential for good questing?
Why would it not be?
>implying barbarians can't be rogues
Throw in a caster, too
You will all be hilariously good at straight fights until level 10, then you get fucked by magic.
>>48248395
Well what are they doing? If it's a wuxia sort of game where they're fighting other melee things and have ways to deal with a dude with a bow, that's more conducive to that kind of party than a game where everything else is a mid-high level caster.
What are you trying to run and in which system, first off?
>implying barbarians can't be casters
>>48248505
Name a single magical problem that can't be solved by a throwing weapon
>>48248505
>implying Dungeons and Dragons
Barbarians can throw sharp sticks
Do whatever the fuck you want anon, tell the GM to try not to give you encounters where you get fucked, then scale up the difficulty slowly and see how it goes
Healing might be an issue
>>48248395
Depends on the system.
Fluff wise it would depend on having a common goal, but would probably be prone to in-fighting within the party.
Build barbarian shadow monk, become muscle wizard
>>48248395
I played through Icewind Dale once with a party of 3 barbs, two berserkers and one ranged character/caster. Shit got pretty messy towards the end but I had fun
Depends if the barbarians are a bunch of well-rounded characters or a bunch of highly specialized archetypes.
>>48248593
>all barbarians
>be the tiny waif healslut of the group
>get railed by multiple barbarians all night ever night
fuel for my fet my dude
>>48248395
>is there any real potential for good questing?
I don't see how it at would at all imply there wouldn't be good questing.
Care to elaborate?
>>48248632
Take me now, bb
>>48248535
>You are attacked by a living nightmare from your inner psyche.
>>48248395
>is there any real potential for good questing?
Of course. I mean what? Of course.
The king's elite monster slayers, knights of the round table, Mortal Kombat/Street Fighter style plots, feudal Japan, soldiers in a soldier campaign, the generals of a barbarian army, new locations to fight in, cinematic fights adding to the narrative, chopping down trees in forests; bamboo in bamboo forests to show your finesse; splintering entire oak trees in dark forests to show your power, running along great walls to knock a ladder over in time, holding important gates in big cinematic scenes, questing to find a lost or legendary sword, questing for the lost or legendary sheath to a cursed sword, and the ever god damn popular sacred quest to kill some evil dude with your sacred quest sword of +3 sacred questing
>>48248593
Why not nature worshiping barbarian druid
i remember a story of a full barbarian party, it was one of the greatest i've ever read, someone should post it
>>48248545
>I am implying D&D
>>48248701
I was thinking the same thing, would post if i was at home
>>48248632
Yeah, big boy give it to grandma
Sure, get a war of the clans campaign going. Different barbarian clans go to war, slug it out over food and women.
As long as they focus on different weapons itemization should be a bit smoother.
>Axe Barbarian
>Sword Barbarian
>Mace Barbarian
>Spear Barbarian
>>48248680
>Implying a real barbarian wouldn't simply beat his own psyche into submission of his will
Are you even trying brother?
>>48248395
What fucking setting are you talking about, anon? What system? As someone who plays PnP, you know it depends on those, right? And that it depends even more on the group?
>>48248658
>>48248728
I'm into the being the girl side guys :(
>>48248680
Then I simply kill the living nightmare with a throwing axe from my inner psyche.
>>48248680
hello /metal/ general
>>48248680
>barbarian
>having an inner psyche
>>48248835
Oh I guess you're just an undead barbarian.
>>48248814
I swear to krom I will ruin this fucking fantasy for you
>>48248873
what if I like older men?
>>48248395
Yes.
>http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/20013482/
>>48248764
>>48248822
>>48248835
Stupid barbarians, what about a cloud of magic poison that kills you if you touch it.
>>48248905
Beat it with a stick
>>48248881
Take that!
>>48248632
I want this fetish and the wannabe trannies who can't afford to transition propagating it to leave.>Not being the buff combat medic who gives sexual healing to fit Barbarian bimbos
>>48248593
>cloud of magic poison that kills you if you touch it
Ya fuckin blow it away. Or are your lungs not strong enough for that?
>>48248952
>It's time to get HEALED
>No, Gorg! No!
>>48248975
Even if my lungs come short, my mighty nether winds will take care of it just fine.
>>48248976
The tale of Gorg the healer, who roamed the land raping people back to health
>>48248535
You come to a cliff. The opposite side is too far to reach, and to travel by foot around this chasm would give your enemies ample time to raid your homestead in your absence.
>>48249078
fun fact: one of the defining features of the original barbarian class was not rage, but its leaping and climbing skills
>>48248948
>shota
im out
>>48248952
I am transitioning
>>48249078
Just catapult yourself over with your weapon.
>>48249103
Good luck, deviant.
>>48249078
If you have enough spears you could tie them together and throw the ladder across, spanning the gap.
Checkmate, magefag.
>>48249134
soon all will kneel before me desu senpai
>>48248715
Well stop it. Not every system is D&D.
>>48248505
Nigga all you need is a girdle of magic resistance and you'll be set.
Honestly, it would make for a better experience. Without the wizard or the Bard to poof or talk away problems you have Players who are forced to think critically about how their characters can make it through this situation. Throw an Arcane Lock against them and see what they come up with.
>>48249454
Newfag here, whats an arcane lock?
>>48249287
Few non-D&D-or-heavily-D&D-inspired systems have "Barbarian" as a class option
>>48250594
Magical Scottish lake
>>48248905
go around it
OP, look into Fate of the Norns.
http://www.fateofthenorns.com/WP/
The basic gist is pretty much as you post. And when you die doing crazy glorious viking barbarian things, you gain benefits based on how crazy and awesome it was. Dying heroically is a sort of win condition.
>>48249454
>Full Barbarian party decides to breakdown wall next to door
>>48249078
club the DM for giving an impossible encounter
>>48248905
blow it away with our powerful barbarian lungs
>>48248395
All barbarian is really a no-brainer so long as you plan for ahed of your weaknesses. And it's not ranged enemies you should worry about (though always ensure you have a way to deal with flyers), it's >>48248505 .
>>48248701
>>48248716
Dude, I totally know what you guys are talking about, but I unfortunately do not have it saved.
>>48248484
>>48249078
>Rage
>Jump 150 feet across the chasm
If that's not available because the GM is a fag, then
>Rage
>Throw grapple hook across
If its too far for that have another barbarian throw me, then I throw the hook.
>>48249036
>Rapes deflowered girls back into being virgins
>>48249078
Kill the army,buttfucker.
>>48249078
>can't be solved by a throwing weapon
>Break the spellcasters hands and forearms.
>Rip with your bare hands his/her vocal cords.
This fucks up somatic and verbal components.
>>48254850
i might have it saved, i just need to go through my horrific and unlabeled /tg/ folder
>>48255417
luckily i labeled it if this is what you are looking for
>>48248395
Yes. Even in DnD.
Play 4e, have one of them play a Warlord, now everyone has HUGE GUTS RIP AND TEAR in melee AND you have someone who can heal.
>>48248395
>Potential for good questing
Nigroid, you Kellogs?
>>48249078
>tie yourself to weapon
>throw weapon across chasm
See the problem is that you're not thinking like a barbarian. Give us a harder challenge.
Greatest adventure group I was ever in had no spellcasters at all.
Play anima scrub.
>>48249134
Protecting the princess in the tower. The hording gold. The dragon on the shelf in the fantasy book part. The hints were there.
Quality
>>48255686
>not spotting the trans-vampire and trans-werewolf in the 4th frame
>not spotting the mountains in the 5th frame (ideal for a dragon's lair)
>>48255427
>Being impressed by the ability to read
For superpowered killing machines that can walk off a .50 cal to the chest, barbarians can be surprisingly human at times.
>>48249101
This Barbarian thread reminded me I just read a book series called Critical Failures
4 buddies get pulled into a D@D style world, except they were drunk and the fucked up their stats bad
wizard has like a 10 int and 18 char
barbarian half orc has a char score of 1,
which translates as explosive diarrhea during diplomacy checks, and other disgusting things
>>48248505
>What is multiclassing.
>What is the magic initiate feat.
>What is the ritual caster feat.
>What are Dex based barbarians.
>>48255835
NPC's is better
>>48255368
>This is how Jesus was made.
>>48255452
but he had a spell caster
or rather Shaman, he didn't travel with them though
>>48250723
Barbarian is also an archetype you can recreate by most non-class based systems
Runequest at example is all about people we would call barbarians despite having no fucking classes
Barbarians were invented and continue to exist as an archetype only to fulfill latent male homosexual beefcake fetishes. Anybody who would ever choose to play or portray a barbarian is a simpering faggot. True story.
>>48255959
this is why I play a Wizard, and these are robes not a dress!
>>48255935
Passive spellcaster cohorts doesn't count as PCs and are useful if you want to have an only martials party.
>>48255757
>trans-werewolf
Pretty sure it's a minotaur thing going on there.
>>48248464
they cant unless multi classing. but i assume you meant stealthbarian
>>48248518
you mean a castbarian?
>>48248609
you mean monkbarian?!?!
>>48248692
you mean drubarian!?!?!?!11
>>48248976
YOU MEAN HEALBARIAN!
come on guys its not that hard.
>>48256484
forgot to post pic
>>48255835
Would you happen to know where I could read these books without having to pay for them anon?
>>48248505
But by level 10 Barbarians have a +2 to saves vs Magic, with better bonuses against death, petrification, or polymorph magic
>>48248395
>the party recieves a letter from a king
>sadly none of them know how to read
>they decide to travel the world looking for a place similar to the emblem inprinted in the letterthey took the letter upside down
>>48255940
Yeah, in Runequest Barbarian is a type of culture/origin for your character. As is civilised and nomadic. Makes much more sense than Barbarian as a class. The class in 3.5 should rather be called berserker imo.
>>48248509
>>48248595
>>48248775
as of now, undecided. entire group wants to play barbarians, after some discussion they said they want an experience like the adventures of OP pic, with maybe some Forgotten Realms and asters of the Universe mixed in
>>48248395
>low fantasy
yes
>high fantasy
no, but you might have a lot of fun trying
>>48248952
>sexual healing
>not Bard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjlSiASsUIs
>>48249078
>tie Barbarians together with rope
>the weakest Barbarian is picked up by the next strongest, and so on
>the last and strongest barbarian jumps carrying the rest of the party
>each barbarian throws the next in quick succession
>the weakest barbarian makes the other side and holds on for dear life as the progressively stronger barbarians pull themselves up
>>48248395
Assuming 3.5e, there's a plethora of prestige classes to make things interesting.
One barbarian goes into a deathless frenzy, the other gets so mad he starts shitting spells and the third gets so mad he turns into a fucking bear.
>>48248680
I roll to intimidate it.
>>48259808
Truly getting really angry, having tons of money and diplomatic immunity are the greatest super powers.
>>48259874
found Victor Von Doom
>>48260003
And black panther. And sort of namor I guess.
>>48259808
In 5th barbarians can straight up gain the power of flight at I want to say level 14 or maybe even 12.
>>48260191
Yeah, shit got weird in 5.
I love the simpler rule set, cause it makes it a lot more accessible to new players that we desperately need, and less tedious...
but half the time I'm wtfing pretty hard.
>>48260191
>>48260294
>>48260191
I just looked in the PHB. You can gain flight at level 14. But for the Totem Warrior path. So some kind of Shamanistic Warrior rather than just a brute Barbarian. I that's plausible enough for me.
>>48260191
>>48262003
>the barbarian falls at the end of the turn
It's not flight, it's jump good
>>48262125
Oh yeah, I just glanced over it looking for the word flying. Should have read it properly I guess
>>48255893
>When Gabrielle is the best barbarian
>>48255104
>Color Spray
I fucking kek'd
>>48256484
That was the implication, but those are stupid names
>>48255427
WHERE THE FUCK IS ULRIST?
>>48259813
>You are now intimidated
>>48264639
If I'm right about the story, it was a two person campaign where the Dorf and the Human players had to wear earmuffs during each other's turns, and play with a posterboard between them.
>>48248395
well , guts could fall into barbarian , generic fighter , rouge , archer and maybe a bit of monk.
>>48256988
This is, honestly, the same out come as trying to offer my usually group plot hooks.
>>48265750
heheheh
Guts is not a barbarian, dumbass.
At most, he took 1 lvl into it as a subclass.
>>48259808
Also, you can get so mad you turn into living ice. Or so mad you catch fire. Or, RAW, you can do both.
>>48248395
I find it best if barbarians are taken in packs, or at least pairs. Two barbs complement each other well.
>>48259139
>High Fantasy
>No
Have you NOT watched any 80s or 90s fantasy films?
>>48248395
You too, you both get a homework assignment tonight.
Just make sure that everyone get the Tactical Feat Amplified Rage and Corageous weapon enchant ASAP
(If we are talking about Pathfinder)
>>48270450
The definition of 'high fantasy' is sometimes all over the fucking place.
If you don't start out with a dragon mount and a laser sword with guns that shoot other laser swords, your fantasy world is insufficiently 'high' for some people.
>>48264301
You mean stupidbarian?
....Uh....I'll show myself out.
