Rage based on how many rounds rather than ?/day [Archive] - Wizards Community

Rage based on how many rounds rather than ?/day [Archive] - Wizards Community

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Rebel581
06-29-07, 12:55 AM I was thinking about how Tome of Battle allowed melee classes to go per encounter rather than per day on many abilities and saw how the Barbarian was still limited to rages per day. Would it be game breaking to change it so that rage is based off how much you use it? Like normally, a level 1 Barbarian with 1 rage/day would get 7 rounds out of that rage if he chose to. Would it be game breaking to say that he could spread out how much of the rage he used per day? Say 2 rounds in one battle, 3 rounds in another, and the remaining 2 in the third encounter? He would still get the penalties for exiting rage and would still only be able to rage once per encounter.
Dherki
06-29-07, 08:25 AM You could also check the PHB2 alternate Berserk Strength feature for barbarians. Granted, you cannot decide when you rage, but you are also not limited per day.
Jerks
06-29-07, 11:52 PM I've never been a big fan of the barbarian's limited ability to rage each day. He's a berserker warrior he should be raging whenever he dang well feels like it. I use the PHB2 berserk strength rules as it's more straightforward and I feel fits a bit more thematically with how a barbarian should be played. I will point out that we houseruled that the threshold is (5+con mod) x barbarian level; instead of the straight 5 x barbarian level as printed in the book.

Another option might be to steal the Wookie Rage from Star Wars (pre-saga). Wookies could rage 1 per encounter for a number of rounds, but then were fatigued for a like number of rounds after raging.
Cheza
06-30-07, 10:22 AM If you allow rage to be used more often, what's about stunning fist, bardic music, turn undead and many, many other abilities???

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Rebel581 06-29-07, 12:55 AM	I was thinking about how Tome of Battle allowed melee classes to go per encounter rather than per day on many abilities and saw how the Barbarian was still limited to rages per day. Would it be game breaking to change it so that rage is based off how much you use it? Like normally, a level 1 Barbarian with 1 rage/day would get 7 rounds out of that rage if he chose to. Would it be game breaking to say that he could spread out how much of the rage he used per day? Say 2 rounds in one battle, 3 rounds in another, and the remaining 2 in the third encounter? He would still get the penalties for exiting rage and would still only be able to rage once per encounter.
Dherki 06-29-07, 08:25 AM	You could also check the PHB2 alternate Berserk Strength feature for barbarians. Granted, you cannot decide when you rage, but you are also not limited per day.
Jerks 06-29-07, 11:52 PM	I've never been a big fan of the barbarian's limited ability to rage each day. He's a berserker warrior he should be raging whenever he dang well feels like it. I use the PHB2 berserk strength rules as it's more straightforward and I feel fits a bit more thematically with how a barbarian should be played. I will point out that we houseruled that the threshold is (5+con mod) x barbarian level; instead of the straight 5 x barbarian level as printed in the book. Another option might be to steal the Wookie Rage from Star Wars (pre-saga). Wookies could rage 1 per encounter for a number of rounds, but then were fatigued for a like number of rounds after raging.
Cheza 06-30-07, 10:22 AM	If you allow rage to be used more often, what's about stunning fist, bardic music, turn undead and many, many other abilities???