ShurikVch
2014-07-26, 06:26 AM
How viable is undead barbarian?
Before I considered undead barbarian as underpowered, because, hey, their second most important ability - Constitution - is nonexistent.
But recently I found in Ghostwalk:
Barbarian: There are not many barbarians among the undead, but gangs of barbarian ghouls and ghasts are used as shock troops by the more powerful lords of Xaphan. A raging undead barbarian does not gain an increase in Constitution (or anything dependent upon Constitution such as hit points or Fortitude saves) but uses its normal Charisma modifier instead of its Constitution modifier to determine how long a rage lasts. Because undead are immune to fatigue, an undead barbarian is not penalized when a rage ends. If rage duration problem is already fixed, maybe it's possible to fix everything else, (or, at the very least, most of it) via equally obscure sources?
Before I considered undead barbarian as underpowered, because, hey, their second most important ability - Constitution - is nonexistent.
But recently I found in Ghostwalk:
Barbarian: There are not many barbarians among the undead, but gangs of barbarian ghouls and ghasts are used as shock troops by the more powerful lords of Xaphan. A raging undead barbarian does not gain an increase in Constitution (or anything dependent upon Constitution such as hit points or Fortitude saves) but uses its normal Charisma modifier instead of its Constitution modifier to determine how long a rage lasts. Because undead are immune to fatigue, an undead barbarian is not penalized when a rage ends. If rage duration problem is already fixed, maybe it's possible to fix everything else, (or, at the very least, most of it) via equally obscure sources?