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00_Whupass 10-10-05, 01:43 PM	Were a character to take levels in both Barbarian and the Druidic Avenger Varient from Unearthed Arcana, how would those levels interact? I'm away from my books at the moment and so am working off the cuff and this question my be explicitly answered in the text for Druidic Avenger, but I don't remember. First lets discuss Fast Movement. A Barbarian's fast movement is an unnamed bonus, the Druidic Avenger's fast movement says it is identical to the Barbarian ability of the same name, therefore it is also an unnamed bonus. Unnamed bonus stack and I therefore conclude that a Barbarian/Druidic Avenger would get the benefit of both. The next point is the one I have more mixed feelings about. How would you handle the interaction of the Druidic Avenger's Rage and the Barbarian's? As I see it there are two ways to go about this. You could assume that a characters Druidic Avenger levels stack with Barbarian levels for the purposes of calculating the number of Rage's per day (this is the part that I think might be explicitly stated in Unearthed Arcana, but I can't remember for sure), or you could assume that each class grants a separate progression for number of Rages per day and sum the number given from each class for a grand total number of rages available to the character on any given day. Does anyone have an opinion, or commentary on my analysis they would like to offer?
InfoStorm 10-10-05, 03:23 PM	I personally feel that the Barbarian & Druidic Avenger fast movement should not stack. They may be unnamed, but they are the exact same bonus in every way,shape and form, and shouldn't stack. Conversely, I would stack the Druidic Avenger & Barbarian levels for purposes of rages. Again, they are idental abilities in every way, unlike the spells of a druid vs Cleric (for example). Just remember that the charact is not gaining any of the other barbarian abilities when taking druidic levels and vica versa.