Realms of Saria: Barbarian

[Jane_Smith]

~~~~~~~~~~~~The Barbarian~~~~~~~~~~~~

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“Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man” ~ Leonard Sidney Woolf

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~~~ The Barbarian ~~~

THE BARBARIAN
{table=head]Level|Base Attack Bonus|Fort Save|Ref Save|Will Save|Special

1st|
+1|
+2|
+2|
+0|Endurance, Fortified Resolve (3), Fury, Rage

2nd|
+2|
+3|
+3|
+0|Fury, Uncanny Dodge

3rd|
+3|
+3|
+3|
+1|Fortified Resolve (6)

4th|
+4|
+4|
+4|
+1|Fury, Indomitable Will (+1)

5th|
+5|
+4|
+4|
+1|Fortified Resolve (9)

6th|
+6/+1|
+5|
+5|
+2|Fury, Improved Uncanny Dodge

7th|
+7/+2|
+5|
+5|
+2|Fortified Resolve (12)

8th|
+8/+3|
+6|
+6|
+2|Fury, Indomitable Will (+2)

9th|
+9/+4|
+6|
+6|
+3|Fortified Resolve (15)

10th|
+10/+5|
+7|
+7|
+3|Fury, Greater Rage

11th|
+11/+6/+1|
+7|
+7|
+3|Fortified Resolve (18)

12th|
+12/+7/+2|
+8|
+8|
+4|Fury, Indomitable Will (+3)

13th|
+13/+8/+3|
+8|
+8|
+4|Fortified Resolve (21)

14th|
+14/+9/+4|
+9|
+9|
+4|Fury, Tireless Rage

15th|
+15/+10/+5|
+9|
+9|
+5|Fortified Resolve (24)

16th|
+16/+11/+6/+1|
+10|
+10|
+5|Fury, Indomitable Will (+4)

17th|
+17/+12/+7/+2|
+10|
+10|
+5|Fortified Resolve (27)

18th|
+18/+13/+8/+3|
+11|
+11|
+6|Fury, Mighty Rage

19th|
+19/+14/+9/+4|
+11|
+11|
+6|Fortified Resolve (30)

20th|
+20/+15/+10/+5|
+12|
+12|
+6|Fury, Indomitable Will (+5)[/table]

Alignment: Any.
Hit Dice: d12.
Base Attack: Good.
Saves: Good Fortitude, Good Reflex, Poor Willpower.

Class Skills
The Barbarian's class skills (and the key ability for each skill) are Acrobatics (Dex), Athletics (Str), Craft (Int), Handle Animal (Cha), Influence (Cha), Knowledge (nature) (Int), Knowledge (war) (Int), Perception (Wis), and Survival (Wis).
Skill Points per Level: 4 + Int modifier.


The Barbarian Table
1st-- Endurance, Fortified Resolve (3), Fury, Rage
2nd-- Fury, Uncanny Dodge
3rd-- Fortified Resolve (6)
4th-- Fury, Indomitable Will (+1)
5th-- Fortified Resolve (9)
6th-- Fury, Improved Uncanny Dodge
7th-- Fortified Resolve (12)
8th-- Fury, Indomitable Will (+2)
9th-- Fortified Resolve (15)
10th- Fury, Greater Rage
11th- Fortified Resolve (18)
12th- Fury, Indomitable Will (+3)
13th- Fortified Resolve (21)
14th- Fury, Tireless Rage
15th- Fortified Resolve (24)
16th- Fury, Indomitable Will (+4)
17th- Fortified Resolve (27)
18th- Fury, Mighty Rage
19th- Fortified Resolve (30)
20th- Fury, Indomitable Will (+5)


Class Features

Weapons and Armor Proficiency: A barbarian is proficient with all simple and martial weapons, light armor, medium armor, and shields (except tower shields).

Maneuvers: You begin your career with knowledge with five martial maneuvers. The disciplines available to you are Stone Dragon, Iron Heart, Tiger Claw, Setting Sun, and White Raven.
Once you know a maneuver, you must ready it before you can use it. A maneuver is considered an extraordinary ability unless otherwise noted in its description. Your maneuvers are not affected by spell resistance, and you do not provoke attacks of opportunity when you initiate one.
You learn additional maneuvers at higher levels. You must meet a maneuver's prerequisite to learn it.
Upon reaching 4th level, and at every even-numbered barbarian level after that, you can choose to learn a new maneuver in place you already know. In effect, you lose the old maneuver in exchange for the new one. You can choose a new maneuver of any level you like, as long as you observe your restriction on the highest-level maneuvers you know; you need not replace the old maneuver with a maneuver of the same level. For exampl, upon reaching 10th level, you could trade in a single 1st-, 2nd-, 3rd-, or 4th-level maneuver for a maneuver of 5th level or lower, as long as you meet the prerequisites of the new maneuver. You can swap only a single maneuver at any given level.

Maneuvers Readied: You can ready all five maneuvers you know at 1st level, but as you advance in level and learn more maneuvers, you must choose which maneuvers to ready. You ready maneuvers by practicing for 5 minutes. The maneuvers you choose remain readied until you decide to practice again and chance them. You need not sleep or rest for any long period of time in order to ready your maneuvers; any time you spend 5 minutes in practice, you can change your readied maneuvers.
You begin an encounter with all your readied maneuvers unpexpended, regardless of how many times you might have already used them sinse you chose them. When you initiate a maneuver, you expend it for the current encounter, so each of your readied maneuvers can be used once per encounter (unless you recover them, as described below).
You can recover all expended maneuvers with a single swift action, which must be immediately followed in the same round with a melee attack or using a standard action to do nothing else in the round (such as executing a quick, harmless flourish with your weapon, beating your chest, or flexing your shoulders). You cannot initiate a maneuver or change your stance while you are recovering your expended maneuvers, but you can remain in a stance in which you began your turn.

Stances Known: You begin play with knowledge of one 1st-level stance from the Stone Dragon, Iron Heart, Tiger Claw, Setting Sun, or White Raven discipline. At higher levels, you gain additional stances. Unlike maneuvers, stances are not expended, and you do not have to ready them. All the stances you know are available to you at all times, and you can change the stance you currently use as a swift action. A stance is an extraordinary ability unless otherwise stated in the stance description.
Unlike with maneuvers, you cannot learn a new stance at higher levels in place of one you already know.

Endurance: At 1st level, the barbarian gains the Endurance feat as a bonus feat, even if she doesnt meet the prerequisites.

Fortified Resolve (Ex):Starting at 1st level, you can ignore 3 points of damage each round of any type, be it physical, magical, or otherwise. You do not have to ignore the full value immediately upon taking damage in a round, and may divide the amount of damage ignored between multiple sources of damage. The damage negated happens after any other damage reduction, energy resistance, or immunities apply, but before actual hit point damage is received. At the beginning of each of your turns, the amount of damage you can negate that round returns to its full value.
At level 3, and every two levels thereafter, the amount of damage you can ignore each round is increased by 3 (to a maximum of 30 by 19th level).

Rage (Ex): At 1st level, a barbarian can call upon inner reserves of strength and ferocity, granting her additional combat prowess. Starting at 1st level, a barbarian gains a number of rage points equal to 4 + her Constitution modifier. At each level after 1st, she gains an additional number of rage points equal to 2 + her Constitution modifier. Temporary increases to Constitution, such as those gained from rage and spells, do not increase a barbarian’s total number of rage points, however perminant increases to constitution are retriactive. A barbarian must spend one rage point to enter a rage and one additional point at the start of any round spent in rage. A barbarian can enter and maintain a rage as a free action. Rage points are renewed after resting for 8 hours, although these hours do not need to be consecutive.
While in a rage, the barbarian gains a +4 bonus to Strength and Constitution, as well as a +2 morale bonus on Will saves. In addition, she takes a -2 penalty to Armor Class. The increase to Constitution grants the barbarian additional hit points per Hit Dice, but disappear when the rage ends and are not lost first like temporary hit points. While raging, a barbarian cannot use any Charisma, Dexterity, or Intelligence based skills (Except for Balance, Escape Artist, Intimidate, Ride and Tumble) or the Concentration skill, or any abilities that require patience or concentration.
A barbarian can end her rage as a free action and is fatigued for a number of rounds equal to twice the number of rage points spent during the rage. A barbarian cannot enter a new rage while fatigued but can otherwise enter a rage multiple times during a single encounter or combat.

Fury: As a barbarian gains experience, she learns to harness her rage in new ways. Starting at 1st level, a barbarian gains one fury. She gains an additional fury at 2nd level, and an additional fury every two levels thereafter. A barbarian can use her furies only while raging. A barbarian cannot select an individual fury more than once unless otherwise noted.


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Ape Fury
- You gain a climb speed equal to one-half your base speed land speed (rounded down to the nearest 5-foot interval).
- You gain a +4 bonus to all Influence checks made to Intimidate.
- You gain a +2 bonus to all Combat Maneuver checks made to Disarm, and to your combat Maneuver Defense to resist being Disarmed.

Bear Fury
- You gain an additional +2 Strength and +2 Constitution.
- You gain a +2 bonus on all Combat Maneuver checks made to Grapple or Sunder.

Boar Fury
- You permanently gain the Diehard as a bonus feat, even while not raging, and even if you do not meet the prerequisites.
- While raging, your Fortified Resolve value is increased by an amount equal to one-half your barbarian level, rounded down (minimum 1).

Dragon Fury
- You permanently gain Blind-Fight as a bonus feat, even while not raging, and even if you do not meet the prerequisites.
- You gain a +2 bonus on all saves against paralysis and sleep effects.
- You gain the frightful presence ability. The DC is equal to 10 + 1/2 your barbarian level + your barbarian's cha modifier, with a radius of 10 ft. + 5 ft/5 levels of barbarian you possess (maximum 30 ft.). Enemys who fail there saves are shaken so long as they remain in the area of effect and for 1d6 rounds after they leave. Even on a successful save, enemys exposed to this effect are immune to it for 24 hours.

Eagle Fury
- You gain a +2 bonus to Perception checks.
- You gain a +2 bonus to Will saves.
- You no longer receive any penalties associated with raging, and retain your ability to use abilities and tasks that require patience or concentration.

Horse Fury
- You permanently gain Run, even while not raging, and even if you do not meet the prerequisites.
- You permanently gain Strong Back, even while not raging, and even if you do not meet the prerequisites.
- You gain an additional 10 feet to your base land speed.

Lion Fury
- You gain the Pounce ability.
- You gain a +2 bonus on Stealth checks.

Mammoth Fury
- You gain an additional +2 Strength and +2 Constitution.
- You gain a +2 bonus on all Combat Maneuver checks made to Sunder and Trample.

Rhino Fury
- You gain a +2 bonus on all Combat Maneuver checks made to Bull Rush and Trample, and to your Combat Maneuver Defense to resist being Bull Rushed or Trampled.
- You gain an additional +2 damage to all attacks made after a charge until the beginning of your next turn for every 10 ft. you move during that charge.

Serpent Fury
- You gain a +2 bonus on Fortitude saves against poison.
- You gain a +2 bonus on Stealth checks.
- You gain a +2 bonus on Combat Maneuver checks made to Grapple, and to your Combat Maneuver Defense to resist being Grappled.
- You gain a +2 bonus on Initiative checks.

Wolf Fury
- You gain a +2 bonus on Combat Maneuver checks made to Trip or Disarm.
- You gain a +4 bonus on Survival checks made to track, even while not raging.

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Uncanny Dodge (Ex): At 2nd level, a barbarian retains his Dexterity bonus to AC (if any) even if he is caught flat-footed or struck by an invisible attacker. However, he still loses his Dexterity bonus to AC if immobilized. If a barbarian already has uncanny dodge from a different class, he automatically gains improved uncanny dodge instead.

Indomitable Will (Ex): At 4th level, a barbarian gains a +1 bonus on Will saves to resist mind-affecting spells and effects. This stacks with the will save bonus gained when raging. At 8th level and every four levels thereafter this bonus increases by one, to a maximum of +5 at 20th level.

Improved Uncanny Dodge (Ex): At 6th level and higher, a barbarian can no longer be flanked. This defense denies a enemy the ability to apply precision based damaged from a source such as sneak attack to the character by flanking her, unless the attacker has at least four more levels than the target does in class levels that grant uncanny dodge. If a character already has uncanny dodge from a second class, the character automatically gains improved uncanny dodge instead, and the levels from the classes that grant uncanny dodge stack to determine the minimum level required to flank the character.

Greater Rage (Ex): At 10th level, a barbarian's bonuses to Strength and Constitution during his rage each increase to +6, and his morale bonus on Will saves increases to +3. The penalty to AC remains at -2.

Tireless Rage (Ex): At 14th level, a barbarian becomes immune to fatigue, and any effects that would cause him to become exhausted instead make him fatigued. At 18th level, he becomes immune to exhaustion.

Mighty Rage (Ex): At 18th level, a barbarian's bonuses to Strength and Constitution during his rage each increase to +8, and his morale bonus on Will saves increases to +4. The penalty to AC remains at -2.


~~~ Barbarian Maneuver Chart
{table=head]Level|Maneuvers Known|Maneuvers Readied|Stances Known
1st| 5 | 5 |1
2nd| 6 | 5 | 1
3rd| 7 | 5 | 2
4th| 8 | 5 | 2
5th| 9 | 5 | 2
6th| 9 | 5 | 2
7th| 10 | 5 | 2
8th| 11 | 5 | 2
9th| 12 | 5 | 3
10th| 12 | 6 | 3
11th| 13 | 6 | 3
12th| 14 | 6 | 3
13th| 15 | 6 | 3
14th| 16 | 6 | 3
15th| 16 | 6 | 4
16th| 17 | 6 | 4
17th| 18 | 6 | 4
18th| 19 | 6 | 4
19th| 20 | 6 | 4
20th| 20 | 7 | 4
[/table]

[Jane_Smith]

Genre of Setting: High-Fantasy, medieval/european, high-magic, post-apocolyptic.


A quick rundown of some houserules of the setting;

Pathfinder
We are using pathfinder for the base rules for combat maneuvers/defense, skills, etc.


Armor
Armor also provides damage reduction. Half of the armor class bonus provided by your armor, plus any enhancement bonuses is how much damage reduction your armor provides. Shields provide damage reduction against ranged attacks equal to the armor class bonus of the shield plus any enhancement bonuses. Fortification armor enhancements also provide additional damage reduction. Light fortification provides +1 DR, medium fortification provides +2 DR and heavy fortification provides +3 DR. DR gained from armor does NOT stack with racial or DR from other sources.


Hit Points
All PC's begin with a number of hit points at 1st level equal to their hit dice + their constitution score, instead of their constitution modifier. Any changes to their constitution score (such as bonuses or ability damage) also effects their starting level hit points. Each additional level is rolled and adds there constitution modifier ontop of there hit dice, as normal.


New Skills: Athletics, Influence, and Knowledge (Trade)
- Athletic (Str) is Climb, Ride and Swim combined into one skill. Any classes with either of these three skills, have Athletics as a class skill.
- Influence (Cha) is Bluff, Diplomacy and Intimidate combined into one skill. Any classes with either of these three skills, have Influence as a class skill.
- Knowledge (Trade) (Int) is Appraise and Profession combined into one skill. Any classes with either of these two skills have Knowledge (Trade) as a class skill.


Changed Skill: Acrobatics
Acrobatics now includes escape artist. Any classes with escape artist as a class skill, have Acrobatics as a class skill.


Death & Dying
Your negative HP cap is equal to your Constitution score, with a minimum of -10 hp.
Example: A character with a 12 Constitution score would be dying between -1 HP and -12 HP, and dead at -13 HP.

The player of a character that is dying may not announce either how close to death they are, or how far under 0 hitpoints they are.

A character adjacent to a dying character may make a free Wisdom check (DC 10) to determine how close to death a character is. This action does not provoke an attack of oppurtunity.


Please rate/comment. :D

[nonsi]

I must say, I'm definitely not a ToB fan, but I'd play one in a heartbeat.
You actually managed to create one solid melee class - a real tough nut to crack with tons of options and a lot of flavor, and without pushing stats to the outer edges of the solar system.

You got my vote :smallcool:

[Volthawk]

Here's some tables for you:

Class table:

THE BARBARIAN
{table=head]Level|Base Attack Bonus|Fort Save|Ref Save|Will Save|Special

1st|
+1|
+2|
+2|
+0|Endurance, Fortified Resolve (3), Fury, Rage

2nd|
+2|
+3|
+3|
+0|Fury, Uncanny Dodge

3rd|
+3|
+3|
+3|
+1|Fortified Resolve (6)

4th|
+4|
+4|
+4|
+1|Fury, Indomitable Will (+1)

5th|
+5|
+4|
+4|
+1|Fortified Resolve (9)

6th|
+6/+1|
+5|
+5|
+2|Fury, Improved Uncanny Dodge

7th|
+7/+2|
+5|
+5|
+2|Fortified Resolve (12)

8th|
+8/+3|
+6|
+6|
+2|Fury, Indomitable Will (+2)

9th|
+9/+4|
+6|
+6|
+3|Fortified Resolve (15)

10th|
+10/+5|
+7|
+7|
+3|Fury, Greater Rage

11th|
+11/+6/+1|
+7|
+7|
+3|Fortified Resolve (18)

12th|
+12/+7/+2|
+8|
+8|
+4|Fury, Indomitable Will (+3)

13th|
+13/+8/+3|
+8|
+8|
+4|Fortified Resolve (21)

14th|
+14/+9/+4|
+9|
+9|
+4|Fury, Tireless Rage

15th|
+15/+10/+5|
+9|
+9|
+5|Fortified Resolve (24)

16th|
+16/+11/+6/+1|
+10|
+10|
+5|Fury, Indomitable Will (+4)

17th|
+17/+12/+7/+2|
+10|
+10|
+5|Fortified Resolve (27)

18th|
+18/+13/+8/+3|
+11|
+11|
+6|Fury, Mighty Rage

19th|
+19/+14/+9/+4|
+11|
+11|
+6|Fortified Resolve (30)

20th|
+20/+15/+10/+5|
+12|
+12|
+6|Fury, Indomitable Will (+5)[/table]

Code:
THE BARBARIAN
{table=head]Level|Base Attack Bonus|Fort Save|Ref Save|Will Save|Special

1st|
+1|
+2|
+2|
+0|Endurance, Fortified Resolve (3), Fury, Rage

2nd|
+2|
+3|
+3|
+0|Fury, Uncanny Dodge

3rd|
+3|
+3|
+3|
+1|Fortified Resolve (6)

4th|
+4|
+4|
+4|
+1|Fury, Indomitable Will (+1)

5th|
+5|
+4|
+4|
+1|Fortified Resolve (9)

6th|
+6/+1|
+5|
+5|
+2|Fury, Improved Uncanny Dodge

7th|
+7/+2|
+5|
+5|
+2|Fortified Resolve (12)

8th|
+8/+3|
+6|
+6|
+2|Fury, Indomitable Will (+2)

9th|
+9/+4|
+6|
+6|
+3|Fortified Resolve (15)

10th|
+10/+5|
+7|
+7|
+3|Fury, Greater Rage

11th|
+11/+6/+1|
+7|
+7|
+3|Fortified Resolve (18)

12th|
+12/+7/+2|
+8|
+8|
+4|Fury, Indomitable Will (+3)

13th|
+13/+8/+3|
+8|
+8|
+4|Fortified Resolve (21)

14th|
+14/+9/+4|
+9|
+9|
+4|Fury, Tireless Rage

15th|
+15/+10/+5|
+9|
+9|
+5|Fortified Resolve (24)

16th|
+16/+11/+6/+1|
+10|
+10|
+5|Fury, Indomitable Will (+4)

17th|
+17/+12/+7/+2|
+10|
+10|
+5|Fortified Resolve (27)

18th|
+18/+13/+8/+3|
+11|
+11|
+6|Fury, Mighty Rage

19th|
+19/+14/+9/+4|
+11|
+11|
+6|Fortified Resolve (30)

20th|
+20/+15/+10/+5|
+12|
+12|
+6|Fury, Indomitable Will (+5)[/table]


Manoeuvre table:

{table=head]Level|Maneuvers Known|Maneuvers Readied|Stances Known
1st| 5 | 5 |1
2nd| 6 | 5 | 1
3rd| 7 | 5 | 2
4th| 8 | 5 | 2
5th| 9 | 5 | 2
6th| 9 | 5 | 2
7th| 10 | 5 | 2
8th| 11 | 5 | 2
9th| 12 | 5 | 3
10th| 12 | 6 | 3
11th| 13 | 6 | 3
12th| 14 | 6 | 3
13th| 15 | 6 | 3
14th| 16 | 6 | 3
15th| 16 | 6 | 4
16th| 17 | 6 | 4
17th| 18 | 6 | 4
18th| 19 | 6 | 4
19th| 20 | 6 | 4
20th| 20 | 7 | 4
[/table]

Code:


{table=head]Level|Maneuvers Known|Maneuvers Readied|Stances Known
1st| 5 | 5 |1
2nd| 6 | 5 | 1
3rd| 7 | 5 | 2
4th| 8 | 5 | 2
5th| 9 | 5 | 2
6th| 9 | 5 | 2
7th| 10 | 5 | 2
8th| 11 | 5 | 2
9th| 12 | 5 | 3
10th| 12 | 6 | 3
11th| 13 | 6 | 3
12th| 14 | 6 | 3
13th| 15 | 6 | 3
14th| 16 | 6 | 3
15th| 16 | 6 | 4
16th| 17 | 6 | 4
17th| 18 | 6 | 4
18th| 19 | 6 | 4
19th| 20 | 6 | 4
20th| 20 | 7 | 4
[/table]



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Apart from that, let's see. Less maneuvers than Swordsages or Warblades, but that makes sense, given the other class features it gets. Fortified Resolve is an interesting take on damage reduction. I quite like Rage points, as they allow flexibility, which is always useful. Indomitable Will is nice, given how Will saves are generally melee's big weakness. Now, Boar Fury talks about Barbarian DR, which doesn't exist now. For Dragon Fury, you should specify how large a radius the Frightful Presence is, and the triggering conditions (although I'm not too sure about giving Frightful Presence at level 1...) Eagle Fury...well, it seems a bit like a must-take option, given how it completely eliminates the downsides to rage. Lion Fury...well, it has the same dipping thing as Spirit Totem, although admittedly this class has a fair bit to encourage staying in the class.

[Jane_Smith]

Thank you for pointing out the boar-fury bit. That was made before the fortified resolve change, obviously. Herpa derp. -facedesk.

Edit: AND for the tables! <3!!!

Edit 2:

1. Added tables (thank you again).

2. Added more detail on the frightful pressence ability (Dc, radius, duration). Nerfed it slightly so that on a failed/successful save, the effected enemy is immune to it for 24 hours either way.

3. Nerfed Lion's Fury by removing the bonus damage from charge-distance.

4. Buffed/nerfed Rhino's Fury by adding the damage from charge-distance. Removed the free slam attack.

5. Nerfed Eagle's fury (slightly) by making the bonus to Perception checks to +2 instead of +4.

6. Changed boar's fury damage reduction increase to a +1-10 bonus to Fortified Resolve while raging (1/2th barbarian level, rounded down, minimum 1).