Bayonet Priest
2012-11-30, 09:18 AM
So a friend of mine has managed to rope in an old acquaintance of ours for a D&D campaign which finally brings us up to the magic number of 3 players and a DM, the bare minimum for running a game. I'm not sure exactly when it will begin, hopefully in the next couple weeks if we can get scheduling figured out.
Everybody's figuring out what characters they want to play as and I'm helping my sister with her's. She's playing an Armored Hulk Barbarian somewhat inspired by Fate/Zero's Berzerkalot. Because she doesn't want to reveal her character's face I'm letting the Endurance feat extend to heavy armor so she can keep wearing her full plate 90% of the time.
The real thing I wanted to ask though was about Barbarians and Raging. It seems to me that with Rage granting Constitution and turning off when you go under 0 HP that it is very likely to kill the character outright. A 5th level Barbarian in a Rage with 14 Con only needs to be knocked to -4 to be killed when the bonus 2 HP per level from the Rage get yoinked.
Would it be reasonable to Houserule that instead of Constitution rage grants you temporary HP?
I'm thinking you gain half of the Temp HP that you would have had as normal HP from the Con bonus. So a 5th level Barb would get 5 THP from the rage. This would keep it from becoming more powerful than the RAW version but making it safer at the same time. Maybe a new rage power could bump it up a little.
Everybody's figuring out what characters they want to play as and I'm helping my sister with her's. She's playing an Armored Hulk Barbarian somewhat inspired by Fate/Zero's Berzerkalot. Because she doesn't want to reveal her character's face I'm letting the Endurance feat extend to heavy armor so she can keep wearing her full plate 90% of the time.
The real thing I wanted to ask though was about Barbarians and Raging. It seems to me that with Rage granting Constitution and turning off when you go under 0 HP that it is very likely to kill the character outright. A 5th level Barbarian in a Rage with 14 Con only needs to be knocked to -4 to be killed when the bonus 2 HP per level from the Rage get yoinked.
Would it be reasonable to Houserule that instead of Constitution rage grants you temporary HP?
I'm thinking you gain half of the Temp HP that you would have had as normal HP from the Con bonus. So a 5th level Barb would get 5 THP from the rage. This would keep it from becoming more powerful than the RAW version but making it safer at the same time. Maybe a new rage power could bump it up a little.