Barbarian

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Barbarian is a default base class with Arelith specific changes.

Introduction

Arelith Barbarians enjoy many changes that benefit their martial and rage aspects. The #Path: Tribesman changes rage mechanics even further. Mechanical changes are included in the #Class Mechanics on this page and explained in the #Arelith Changes section. Base mechanics can be found on NWNWiki. The #Roleplay Tips section provides suggestions for character development.

Class Mechanics

Requirements

Alignment restrictions: Any non-lawful

Class Features

Hit die: d12

Proficiencies: armor (light, medium), shields, weapons (martial, simple)

Skill points: 4 + int modifier ((4 + int modifer) * 4 at 1st level)

Class Skills: craft mastery, craft trap, discipline, heal, intimidate, listen, lore, parry, ride, taunt

Unavailable feats: weapon specialization

Primary saving throw(s): fortitude

Base attack bonus: +1/level

Level Progression

Hit points rolls on Arelith are always maximum.

Level	BAB	Fort	Reflex	Will	Feats	HP	DR	reflex vs traps	1h rage dmg bonus	2h rage dmg bonus	will save during rage
1st	+1	+2	+0	+0	barbarian fast movement, barbarian rage, +1 AB during rage	12	-	-	+1	+3	+1
2nd	+2	+3	+0	+0	uncanny dodge I	24	-	-	+1	+3	+1
3rd	+3	+3	+1	+1		36	-	-	+1	+3	+1
4th	+4	+4	+1	+1	5% Physical Immunity during rage	48	-	-	+2	+4	+2
5th	+5	+4	+1	+1	uncanny dodge II	60	-	+1	+2	+4	+2
6th	+6/+1	+5	+2	+2		72	-	+1	+2	+4	+2
7th	+7/+2	+5	+2	+2		84	-	+1	+2	+4	+2
8th	+8/+3	+6	+2	+2	passive damage bonus +1	96	-	+1	+3	+6	+3
9th	+9/+4	+6	+3	+3		108	-	+1	+3	+6	+3
10th	+10/+5	+7	+3	+3	uncanny dodge III	120	-	+2	+3	+6	+3
11th	+11/+6/+1	+7	+3	+3	damage reduction I	132	1/-	+2	+3	+6	+3
12th	+12/+7/+2	+8	+4	+4	barbarian dodge +2 dodge AC, +2 AB during rage	144	1/-	+2	+4	+7	+4
13th	+13/+8/+3	+8	+4	+4	uncanny dodge IV	156	1/-	+3	+4	+7	+4
14th	+14/+9/+4	+9	+4	+4	damage reduction II	168	2/-	+3	+4	+7	+4
15th	+15/+10/+5	+9	+5	+5	greater rage	180	2/-	+3	+4	+7	+4
16th	+16/+11/+6/+1	+10	+5	+5	uncanny dodge V, 10% Physical Immunity during rage, passive damage bonus +2	192	2/-	+4	+6	+9	+5
17th	+17/+12/+7/+2	+10	+5	+5	damage reduction III	204	3/-	+4	+6	+9	+5
18th	+18/+13/+8/+3	+11	+6	+6		216	3/-	+4	+6	+9	+5
19th	+19/+14/+9/+4	+11	+6	+6	uncanny dodge VI	228	3/-	+5	+6	+9	+5
20th	+20/+15/+10/+5	+12	+6	+6	damage reduction IV, barbarian dodge +4 dodge AC	240	4/-	+5	+7	+11	+6

Epic Barbarian

Bonus feats: The epic barbarian gains a bonus feat every four levels after 20th. In other words, at levels 24 and 28.

Epic barbarian bonus feats: armor skin, epic damage reduction, epic prowess, epic toughness, epic weapon focus, mighty rage, overwhelming critical, superior initiative, terrifying rage, thundering rage

Unavailable epic feats: epic weapon specialization, outsider shape, construct shape, dragon shape, undead shape

Level	Feats	HP	DR	reflex vs traps	1h rage dmg bonus	2h rage dmg bonus	will save during rage
21st	passive damage bonus +3	252	4/-	+5	+7	+11	+6
22nd		264	4/-	+6	+7	+11	+6
23rd	epic barbarian damage reduction, passive damage bonus +4	276	5/-	+6	+7	+11	+6
24th	bonus feat	288	5/-	+6	+9	+13	+7
25th	passive damage bonus +5	300	5/-	+7	+9	+13	+7
26th	epic barbarian damage reduction II	312	6/-	+7	+9	+13	+7
27th	passive damage bonus +6	324	6/-	+7	+9	+13	+7
28th	bonus feat	336	6/-	+8	+12	+16	+8
29th	epic barbarian damage reduction III, passive damage bonus +7	348	7/-	+8	+12	+16	+8
30th		360	7/-	+8	+12	+16	+8

Arelith Changes

Change	Level	Description
You're Drunk	-	When sufficiently drunk (below 0% sobriety) the Barbarian gains a boost to his strength. Three kinds of beverages decreases your sobriety: ale, wine (different kinds but same effect) and spirits. Drinking these will decrease sobriety and rest meter. How much they decrease depends on the CON stat of the character. This covers all character and not only Barbarians. When a character gets drunk their DEX is decreased. More drunk means larger decrease. getting a sobriety of -10,0% - 0,01 % means a DEX decrease of 2, is sobriety -20,0% - 10,1% the DEX decrease is 4 etc etc. For every tick in negative sobriety the Decrease stacks. for example having a sobriety at -15% for one tick would mean a DEX decrease of 8. Reaching -100 % sobriety means the character dies of alcohol poisoning. Only Barbarians get the following benefit: When reaching a negative sobriety, the barbarian gets a bonus of +2 to their STR. At next tick the bonus rises to +5 The bonus is a soft bonus and counts toward the +12 cap TIP: when a tick takes you from Drunk to Sober the barbarian drunk-benefit remains for the next tick but at a +3 (This happens wither your bonus was +2 or +5). This means a carefully drinking barbarian can keep themselves in a two tick routine where they have +2 and +5 to STR with only minor DEX penalties. Any change to any meter (rest, drink, rest) will remove bonus STR when the barbarian is sober. when drunk Character has chance of stopping current action and laugh - frequency seems to increase as Sobriety decreases. Laughing and falling will make you flatfooted Very low sobriety means the character also start falling To stop the laughing emote the player can emote sitting and it should stop momentarily.
Barbarian Rage	-	The Rage doesn't have any of the vanilla effects of NWN, but it will instead do the following: Bonus AB +1 while raging at level 1 and +1 at level 12 for a total of +2 AB at level 12. Physical immunity while raging 5% at level 4 and 5% more at level 16 for a total of +10% physical immunity at level 16. If the barbarian has 17 CON (base, i.e. before modifiers) or lower, the AB bonus is reduced by 1 (minimum 0), and the bonus physical immunity reduced by 5% (minimum 0%). Boosts will save while raging +1 at level 1, +2 at level 4 and +1 every 4 levels afterwards (1/4/8/12/16/20/24/28). Increases the barbarian's movement rate by 50% for 3 rounds. Gives temp HP = 50% of barbarian levels HP. Duration is changed to 2d4 + con mod rounds. Infinite uses/day but has a 1 turn cooldown, starting the moment the rage ends. Is a free action. Bonus Damage is applied to the Barbarian's weapon during Rage. The damage bonus will only apply to the melee weapon you have equipped or gloves if no melee weapon is equipped, at the moment of raging. The only non-melee/gloves weapon that will benefit from the Rage are throwing axes. Unarmed attacks do not benefit from the increased damage unless the character has the improved unarmed combat feat. Note that double weapons scale as one-handed weapons for the purposes of calculating bonus Rage damage.
Epic Rage	-	Epic rage feats are updated as well. Each epic rage feat updates the visual effect of Rage. Epic Rage Feats no longer affects rage tiers. Thundering Rage +1 Attack Per Round during rage, which stacks with Haste. Mighty Rage Removes crowd control effects and debuffs, and extends rage by 1 turn. Terrifying Rage Upon entering the aura of a raging barbarian with the Terrifying Rage feat, a hostile creature or player must make a will save. The save DC is [(Intimidate/5)+(barb level/2)+(Base CON Modifier)+5]. This is treated as a saving throw vs fear. For example, a level 30 character with 35 points in Intimidate and a base CON of 22 would have a DC of 33 against Fear. Against non-PCs, Terrifying Rage causes a 3-round stun and its debuff effect lasts three times longer. Hit dice comparisons have been removed. Anyone that fails the saving throw is subject to the following effects: Debuff: -1 to AB and Saves per 7 Barbarian levels Debuff: +5% Automatic Spell Failure per 7 Barbarian levels 1/2 round stun The debuff duration is 1d3 + base CON mod rounds. Mind protection defends against the stun effect, but not the debuff. Fear immunity protects against Terrifying Rage.
Passive Damage Bonus	8	Barbarians get bonus physical damage based on their Constitution score, as long as they are wielding a melee weapon or throwing axes. The bonus damage is equal to the Barbarian's base CON modifier. The first bonus is at level 8 (+1) and the second is at level 16 (+2 total). Every odd epic barbarian level adds an additional +1, to a max of +7 at level 29. This is a passive bonus to damage that is always active, and stacks with the bonus weapon damage from rage.
Barbarian Dodge	12	They gain +2 Dodge AC at level 12, and other +2 at level 20 for a +4 dodge AC total bonus, as long as the barbarian is wearing medium or light armor.

Path: Tribesman

The Tribesman is a Barbarian Path. The barbarian loses the rage ability (including epic rage), and instead he gains, through deed or right, the loyalty of his clan: A tribesman can call upon two tribesmen to aid him in battle any time.

• The Rage ability can be used to summon a Tribal Warrior. It does not have a limit of uses per day, but it goes on a six-minute cooldown if a tribesman dies or is dismissed.
• The tribesmen act as henchmen, so they have no "duration" and will remain with the barbarian until dismissed or slain. A summoned creature can be conjured as well.
• They share race and armor type of the Barbarian. Tribesmen don't use the fat phenotype and are always randomly gendered.
• They share the Barbarian level (not character level) of the player character.
• They don't share racial abilities with the Player character and they don't share any enchantments the player character has on their armor.
• The tribesmen don't have any rage abilities.
• A player may RP through the barbarians using the Associate Tool and the -a command.

Progression of Tribal Warriors

• Equipment: The Tribesmen are called to battle dual-wielding a battle axe with a handaxe.
• Enhancement: Every 6 levels, they gain +1 magical enhancement to their weapons. Every level, they gain +1 AC, up to 20.
• Ability Scores: Tribesmen start with 16 Strength, 16 Dexterity, 14 Constitution. Every 4 levels, they gain +1 hard Strength.
• Saves: Every 2 levels, gain +1 universal saves. Follow normal barbarian save progression.
• Feats: The tribesmen start and gain all normal Barbarian feats. They also start with Blind Fight, Spring Attack, Cleave, Weapon Focus in both weapons, Ambidexterity and Improved Two Weapon Fighting.

• At level 9, gain: Toughness.
• At level 12, gain: Improved Critical.
• At level 24, gain: Epic Weapon Focus.

• Skills: Follow a "martial" skill progression.

Roleplay Tips

Basic Forgotten Realms Barbarian info available on NWNWiki.

External Links

Information about default NWN class are available on NWNWiki.