5 Tricks All Good Barbarians Know In D&D
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- Опубликовано: 14 июл 2024
- Five useful tricks and tips that all great barbarian players know and use in Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition!
0:00 - Maintaining Rage
1:25 - Abuse Your Consumables
2:55 - Let's Talk About AC
4:20 - Multiclass Is In Session
5:47 - All About Feats
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Barbarian with rogue dip = Jason Vorhees
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Using Alchemists Fire to maintain rage is a stroke of genius.
1d4+Dex(per a Crawford tweet) for Rage and the added benefit of BEING ON FIRE as you CHARGE YOUR FOES is pretty badass
Throw on a grapple check and you get to light them on fire, too! Flaming hugs for everyone!
I did that once a couple years back, my barbarian/fighter was surrounded by 5-7 Spawn of Kyuss. (He was level 12 or 13 at that point.)
He doused himself with Alchemist's Fire to keep the grubs from burrowing into his skin.
I’ve recently started playing a pit fiend themed tiefling barbarian, and I’ve already been lugging those around for a thematically fitting ranged attack. Definitely gonna use this in the next big fight
The scurge asimar is also a great option to keep deal aoe damage and keep your rage up.
"Sure sex is great... I would imagine" That shit killed me fr 🤣🤣🤣
I laughed so hard
😭😭😭
I would love to see a mini series on the role-playability of each class, their strengths and weaknesses as role playing characters and how best to play them, and some tips on how to get the most out of your abilities in a role playing scenario.
awesome idea I'll put it on my list of video plans!
@@DnDShorts Yes please! I still struggle to figure out my level 8 circle of the moon druid's role within our party of a paladin, sorcerer, rogue, and fighter. I feel like a jack of all trades but a master of none.
The best rp class is fighter, you can be anything
Others discourage players to branch out... Like monk, my monk is a thief who simply isn't the rogue class. He's a duelist and thief who's mechanics are monk, not the monk behavior.
@@elgatochurro yeah, flavor is free. I have a barbarian, but only mechanically. All the flavor is a very precise, focused gentleman. Rage is just a very focused state.
Web DM did a series like this, highly recommend!
Piggybacking on the ‘always use reckless attack’, it is important to use armor, but not for AC, but for adamantine properties. Adamantine negates critical hits on you, which will be more often when every attack on you is at advantage.
Another notable thing about reckless attack: great when you’re one on one, not so great in mob battles. Seventeen orca have advantage on you?
@@oscarbalfour6851 oh fuck not 17 killer whales
@@ribry8512 yeebaby, the famous roving orca bands of faerun, with their war chiefs Willie and tillikum
Same with Mizzium armor.
@@oscarbalfour6851 I hope you're happy.
Now I have to make this for my game
I now have the urge to make a barbarian. Very nice, as usual man.
I'm gonna multiclass my barbarian into alchemist artificer to make a meth dealer
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@@kermitenthusiast485 yis
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I would justify a rogue-barian flavor wise as an executioner, who knows exactly where to land his axe to get a quick and painless death. It’s works good enough in my opinion
An executioner has the criminal already chained down by the time he arrives though
@@spencervance8484 well yeah it’s not perfect but it’s something
@@spencervance8484 You could argue that the clan you were from did a type of trial by combat as a form of execution. The condemned faces the village champion/executioner in a fight that's unfair but offers a warriors death and small chance to survive should they win. The executioner would need to be very good to do his job.
Reckless attack only works with strength based attacks sadly, so the multiclass actually doens't work
@@Smite_Sion You don't need to use dex for sneak attack. Finesse weapons don't _force_ you to use dex for attack and damage rolls, you know. It just gives you the option.
I know a roguebarian that's doing exactly this, in fact. He's using a rapier, activating reckless and swinging with strength and still getting sneak attack.
On the bear-barian, remember that you can spend your spells to heal your wild shape, so don’t feel like you need to cast first then charge in if it doesn’t suit your style or the scenario
And then only prepare healing and utility spells so you're not casting in combat.
I've seen bears ride unicycles, I'm sure they can cast spells or drink potions
I'm glad to see there is easier ways to keep rage. When I played my Barbarian, my friend who was a wizard would just set me on fire and watch me rage. That way if an enemy gets too close, I could set them on fire too.
None of this makes sense to me. You only have to attack an enemy to keep it going, not damage an enemy. Just keep throwing shit if they are out of melee range. Or are you guys talking about maintaining rage between combat? Like setting the barb on fire while exploring? Shutting a barbs rage down in combat is actually really difficult.
@@tonyyachuk8484 I know when I played we did it for dungeons so that way I was always enraged, so I didn't have to use any time to rage.
@@negandavidson9600 Rage only lasts a minute. You can't explore while raging for very long. 2 rooms without combat and the minute is up, rage is done. Now you're just a normal guy on fire.
1:19 or attack an enemy with a javelin
Always the final option, but man it sucks when you're used to doing 30+ damage a turn to go down to 8! If you find yourself caught at range a lot, I recommend checking out the Javelin of Lightning as well as a few potions of flight!
@@DnDShorts You could also throw a handaxe, and use your bonus action to throw another(which might not do extra STR damage but will add extra rage damage anyway). Either way you'd be out of range on your next turn.
@@DnDShorts i mean, it's what you gotta do to keep rage up, why let an attack go to waste?
@@gabejones8112 extra rage only applies on melee.
I took Path of Beast on a simichybrid and a multiclass into rogue to get around this. Take acid spit attack as one of the mutations so you always have a ranged attack to continue proccing rage, and Path of the Beast gives you an extra 10 feet of movement speed per round plus half your total movement speed when you rage, and Cunning Action let's you dash as a bonus action so you don't waste a whole turn doing nothing when you could be smacking people around. Flying enemy? No problem just use your lvl 6 Beast barb ability to add an athletics check to your jump distance and make an insane jump to grapple the enemy, which you have advantage on thanks to Beast subclass. Enemy gets grappled 9 times our of ten and plummets to the ground. You both take damage but they always take more than you. Then proceed to slaughter. Rinse, repeat. Enjoy!
2:44 Unless the beholder just, you know, looks at you with its giant antimagic eye. And potions are magical items, so they won`t work in the antimagic field. That`s literally the whole point of a beholder.
But why would the beholder look at the barbarian instead of like any of the casters
@@goldencalf13 Because Barbarian will kill it?
@@user-fd5nz5lo7m then look at it with an eye that does something that will detriment all barbarians not the anti-magic eye
@@goldencalf13 Of course beholder have a number of rays that would desimate barbarian, but they have two problems. 1) They are random. 2) They all allow saving throws and barbarians will be good at 7 of those (STR, DEX, CON). And a good thing about antimagic eye, this 150 ft CONE, most likely to touch most of the party anyways.
@@user-fd5nz5lo7m It's cone also affects its own eye rays, so a beholder will cripple himself by sheltering his most important targets. Learning how to place a beholder's cone is key.
Bearbarian is busted - Kalshtar Bearbarians have resistance to damage while raging. Not a type, not most types, just *damage resistance*.
Why say bearbarian when Barbearian is right there???
@@paulrudd1483 i guess this was amateur hour
Gem Dragonborn, too
"Look I'm more into Feat than Quinten Terantino, why did I write that" I cannot stop laughing at this, it is known, but damn that one got me!
“Set yourself on fire!” That’s so metal!!! 🔥🤘
The Bugbear, polearm master and sentinel build is insane
For some really dumb reason, the bugbeat extra reach only counts on your own turn
Combine it with battlemaster fighter and you become a strategic god.
Barbarian with fighter multiclass? You outreach enemies while doing a load of damage, don't forget the extra speed from barbarian as well
I have a high elf barbarian with mage hand to carry their maul, since it is within the 10lbs limit.
Also puts mage hand on throwing axes for a returning effect.
I'm stealing this. Thank you
@@jessep794
Welcome 😁
Genius. You are a genius.
yea but you should choose beetween attack or move the hand... so not so good.
@@kjarllan7097 By dm's discretion you could attack with the hand in one action. Or were you referring to throwing it and bringing it back?
3:36 you can disable the downside of reckless attack by playing as a Wildhunt Shifter because their shifting feature makes it so within 30ft of you enemies can't benefit from advantage to hit you
Wildhunt shifters don't have that ability (none of the shfiters do). Also shifters in general suck
Or if you go roguebarian (or what I like to call the dervish) you could bonus action disengage to dance back out of melee if you're scared of taking it like a man.
@@Guille2033
*Wildhunt*
-Ability Scores: Dex +1 Wis +2
-Natural tracker: You have proficiency in the survival skill.
-Shifting feature: While shifted, you have advantage on Wisdom checks, and *no creature within 30 feet of you can make an attack roll with advantage against you, unless you're incapacitated.*
@@francomoreira4222
Daym. that would TOTALLY bust rage.
@@Guille2033Yeah they do and this combo is actuallynot that bad.
Just because its not a powergamer race doesnt make it bad. It actually has great flavour.
I'm currently building a fighter, and the potions section here had some good stuff. I'm doing Polearm Master with variant human (and will get Sentinel asap), but I'm doing Battlemaster fighter for the superiority dice with tripping people when they enter the range and their speed drops to zero. So they stay on the ground for their turn. and then I get advantage.
One of my favorite feats for Barbarians is the fell handed feat. What the fell handed feat does is give you a +1 to hit with axes and hammers, and if you attack with advantage and the lower of the two damage dice hit you knock enemies prone. The feat also does other stuff, but those are the parts which really matter.
Reading what it gives you it’s no surprise that it stayed in UA, where is belongs
@@Clarity_Control Broken things are fun sometimes
@@tankeasy8180
True, but power creeping everything else isn't,
A “DM” I have played with, gave my Barbarian boots of speed, and a cloak that casts blur, and a ring that allows him to regain hit points…. Now every encounter is either the Barbarian kills everything while the party watches, or a monster appears that just happens to undermine all the Barbarian’s strengths. I’ve actually started “forgetting” some of the strategies possible with this character, just to give the other players a chance to participate in a meaningful way.
Finally, a D&D channel to support my crippling addiction to making characters spontaneously!
.... and will never get to use.
I am the DM 😔
Hop in the discord! People are making a lot of one shots to let forever DMs play! If I ever get enough from this YT to leave my job I'll also start running regular ones for the community too!
I do the same but I sometimes use those characters and builds against my players to test them out
I like to throw groups of said characters together for boss fights
@@bastiondon How does this slow down combat significantly for you because i coud imagine that if you add multiple "DM Player Charekters" to the combat who are all quit complex.
PS: I'm ary that my englisch is not the best, I'm not a nativ speaker.
@@Velatus5978 That's okay!
The way I do it is, I don't use whole character sheets for NPCs I throw at the party.
I instead make monster stat blocks for them using the abilities from the classes I want them to have.
It's smaller, but you still get the details and power on one clean stat block!
I’d like to say that you should at least buy adamantine armor so your reckless attacks don’t cause you to get hit by a crit
The alchemists fire tip was super helpful. Gonna use that
I have been watching your vids for a while and I’m starting my first D&D campaign EVER and I’m playing a barbarian. Perfect timing my man lol thank you!!
Simic Hybrid/Path of the Beast Barbarian. It's so much fun. You get so many options. Ray-like fins and grappling appendages fit so well with beast barb it's insane.
It certainly feels very "mutant experiment," which is dope
There did used to be a mutant class in DnD or pathfinder, some fighter sub I think.
We need one for paladins and every class
Barbarian/Alchemist is a good combo too. Make your own magic items, make your own potions (using spell slots that you can't use while raging), make your Alchemist fire... And the best part is using magic tinkering to play the DOOM OST when you rage.
This multiclass sounds perfect for my potion-addicted Berserker who’d rather drink a potion of speed than rest
i wanted to be a barbificer but i have 9 int unfortunately
Not sure if you meant it that way but you can actually use spell slots when you rage, you just cant cast spells.
Using a spellslot to make a quick potion during battle is totally viable but of course its better to make them beforehand.
Thats also why Barb/Paladin works as you can smite while raging.
The multiclass sounds like Doomguy and Witcher's Geralt mix.
This is one of the best videos I've seen on barbarians. Thank you for the ideas sir!
One great combo is the polearm master/sentinel build with a 10ft reach weapon while being a bugbear. On your turn you can step 5ft back and still hit them, then if they get closer they enter your reach again. It's best if they need to get past or to you and they can't get more than 10ft to your sides.
Multiclass fighter and barb togheter. Now you have the barbs rage, extra speed, AND Avoid advantage on reckless attacks in a 1v1.
I did not know about many of these feats and combos. Most excellent information, good sir! Cheers!
Potion of Speed does have the round loss effect of haste, it just happens on round 11 by which point the combat is likely over.
Hats off for just starting the video and getting right into the topic of the video. No 2 min summary and explanation. No stupid in video ad. Just to the point. Love it.
Thank you for some useful advice. Keep up the great work
A barbarian charging at you on fire sounds pretty scary.
I am using these now! Its awesome keep them coming .
Awesome video! Definitely learned a lot that I'll be using!
I multiclassed my barbarian with draconic sorcerer which so far has been fun! Got that extra free AC bonus, plus I'm able to now apply mage armor to myself with a couple range and speed spells.
Looking forward to a video on each of the other classes :)))
Here's an alternative solution to dealing with flying enemies, jumping.
A path of the Beast barbarian with the Jumping option of their Bestial Soul feature, with advantage on strength checks you can get some huge athletics skill rolls and jump surprisingly high, you just need to get in close enough to make one of your attacks, but rather then attacking you use it to grapple. Again with advantage on your athletics checks and high strength there are very few things you won't be able to grapple. Grapple reduces a creature's movement speed to 0, a flying creature with 0 speed can't fly anymore and they begin to fall. Sure you might take some fall damage as well when you both hit the ground, but who cares, you're raging. Even if the creature can hover and doesn't fall, you're still grabbing on tight so you can stay in the grapple and keep hitting them with your claws.
I also did this with a Rabbitfolk from the fey creatures UA (though that should soon become an official option) for that extra hop of jump distance. If you wanna get REALLY nasty take a few levels of rogue, like suggested here, and take expertise in athletics. At that point you can wrestle dragons to the floor.
Instant Sub/Like! The Tarantino joke made me spit coffee all over my desk!!
Great video! I'm still not sure what to make in the full game but barbarians sounds like a lot of fun!
Love your videos... they work really well with BG3
I just sent this to both my barbarian teamates... Amazing job and hilarious
I took my like away to add it back for the Feet joke. Fucking genius mate.
All I could think in this video is
"yo is that spider dance?"
Another good tip is to take the readied action outside of combat specifically for the dash action because barbarians need to be up close and personal with whatever their fighting, and taking the dash action before anyone even rolls initiative means that the barbarian can run right up to whatever he wants to stick his axe in then still have their movement on their own turn making it great for gap closing.
Though this applies to all martial or melee characters I guess.
Hey! My Conan O’Brien comedic barbarian feels attacked
“Once the juice is loose... THAT’S ALL SHE WROTE!” Brennan Lee Mulligan on concentrating on Potion Spells
Okay, the information you give is good, but the real reason I listen is your voice and your sense of humor. Both are awesome.
Thank you for the video.
I played a tortle bear totem barb/ champion fighter/ moon druid with a cloak of displacement, and had the gwm,polearm master and sentinel feats(used charger as well to turtle slide into people) that man was disgustingly dangerous in an enclosed space
I used that great weapon/polearm/sentinel combo with a tortle fighter..i was an iron wall nothing on foot or low flying made it past me to the party. plus if it was something big and scary i would use my attacks then my movement speed to move back 5 ft
The alchemists fire is also good for re-rolling saves against nasty charm/domination effects that try to shut you down.
currently playing a level 18 barbarian, im so hyped for capstone. i do have a belt of storm giant strength, but a 24 strength to fall back on in antimagic situations is incredible
Love these multiclass ideas. And those feats are amazing. 👍🏼👍🏼
man great video! you got the goods.
There's also subclasses like Path if the beast which is fun to use when raging with the tail, claws, and mandible which all have different abilities if you choose one of them during your rage. My favorite being tail since I could use my reaction to roll a 1d8 and add it to my a.c. which was always fun.
Sadly, Sneak attack only works with a finesse or ranged weapon, while Reckless attack only works on an attack that uses strength. Loved the rest of the video!
Finesse weapons don't REQUIRE you to use your DEX mod. They only give you the OPTION to use your DEX mod instead of your STR mod.
I actually just made a level 4 Leonin AG Barb with GWM, this is just making me more excited to use him
6:40 I loved how the barbarian was looking for any other target after dealing with a kobold and simply went for you.
Thanks for the tips
Imagining a raging war hammer wielding barbarian charging you WHILE ON FIRE is terrifying
This is so helpful... But what got me more on this Video was the Spyro Theme song in the background hahaha
Tiefling Bear Totems can theoretically use that double half damage to take one tick of fire damage each turn to maintain their rage.
Damage resistance doesn't stack. Tieflings resist fire and bear totem rage resists fire, you will still only receive 1/2 damage, not a 1/4.
My new players have been learning well but the barbarian will love this one. Genius as always.
For dex barbarians, there is the scimitar of speed for even more attacks on top of a potion of speed.
2 years later and this is still the guide for all barbarians, and I'm a Ranger sniping from way off in safety like a wimp.
Having Snape as a friend is a boon for a barbarian. He gives great advice and makes great consumables.
I cannot believe I’ve never thought about the alchemists fire thing before…. This changes *everything*
One fun trick about Barbarians is that they're possibly the best class for grappling, thanks to their high HP, getting advantage on Strength checks while raging, and an extra attack to get multiple attempts or to make sure you can maintain your rage. You do have to build around it a bit - 2-handed weapons aren't great for grappling - but it can be real handy, especially against more mobile enemies. For extra spice, multiclass into rogue for expertise in Athletics, giving you a very difficult to contest grapple.
the feats superimposed on the feet nearly fucking killed me
About to play a barbarian/hex blade and never thought about portions.. dude ty
I was playing with a half-orc 5th level Bear-Totem barbarian + 4th level Fighter battlemaster
reckless attack every turn with -5 attack +10 dmg from Great Weapon Master
possibly with action surge for 4 attacks in the same turn
if by some reason I missed, I could use the "precision" maneuver and add a 1d8 to the attack
and if I hit, I could use some other maneuver that added 1d8 dmg plus some other nice effect
If something needed to die, it was not hard do 100+ dmg in one turn
you can't use two Maneuvers on one attack...
"Rogue-barian", you say? Well, you just earned a sub.
Now, if I can only find a game to wreck...
(1:36) "Winners don't use drugs, except steroids, in which case use lots of drugs"
- NPC
Not sure if you mention it but if you can get your hands on an adamantine breast plate it is medium armor so you still get the benefits of rage and you can always reckless attack without worrying about getting critical hits on you.
😂 oh my God, that little line you slipped in 1:51 got me good! "Sure sex is great, Iwouldimagine, but!"
love this video info & fun
Speaking as someone currently playing a centaur barbarian, that Potion of Speed idea would be downright INSANE if I tried it. XD
Fave barb multiclass I've tried was a BarbLock with armour of agathys, because after casting it and raging for resistances, it took the enemy a lot of hits (and a fair bit of cold damage) to actually break through the temporary hit points
Every barbarian rages supreme as long as the DM controlled npc doesn't cast calm emotions.
very good tips here! I'm playing a barb myself right now, who's whole stick is that he's a disgruntled town guard who really just wants to fing die but won't (he's a zelot because Ilmater thinks he'll find his way) and he's got a combination of polearm master (his trusty halberd is his main weapon) and tavern brawler (he's all about fighting dirty and going for nutshots and just smacking people with barstools, just last session i beat a wizard to death with his own spellbook) so what i like to do is rage, use great weapon master to be a threat to protect my squishies and then i smack with the halbard, move in, punch and do a bonus action grapple with advantage. alot of the time I have trouble keeping rage after that so fing lighting myself on fire is the perfect tip, depending on how the DM rules it it might even hurt whoever I'm grappling XD
ooo this is great news. my current character is a rune knight fighter/barbarian. definitely going to put more levels into barbarian now that my fighter side is decent after seeing this. 👍🏼
now I can just imagine a barbarian poring alchemist fire on himself then raging and charging into battle as a flaming demon.
You could go Scourge Aasimar, use Radiant Consumption and take 2 or 3 damage radiant damage on the end of your turn and do extra radiant damage per level.
you are resistant to radiant damage so you will take 1 dmg per turn all the way up to level 7 and then two points of damage up to level 11
I kind of like the idea of being able to punch yourself in the face to maintain rage. It’s such a dumb jock way to psyche yourself up 😂
I am mostly sure Halberds are applicable to each of the feats mentioned. There is also the tough feat which is +2 hp per level. If you rolled solid stats taking all of these could give your DM a healthy challenge for balancing future encounters, keep in mind it wouldn't be possible until 12 at the earliest and an average of 16
Okay using Alchemist Fire to maintain rage is freaking Genius! Its also so, so very badass. Lets also not forget the fear factor... Like, Imagine seeing a man whose already built like a tank and ferocious and stuff; proceed to light himself in fire and charge toward you like a bull on crack, screaming his head off.
I think that is a "DM have them make a Wisdom Saving Throw at disadvantage." Moment...
Fairly new to dnd but my first character was a dragonborn barbarian he was awesome great vid bud 👍
I'm about to get into playing d&d for the first time and I chose barbarian class, so this is going to be very helpful :>
Dude, please keep doing these for the other classes
The Barbarian/Rogue multiclass showing up in this video really reaffirms the idea i came up with.
Currently building a Little Red Riding Hood Axe weilding murderer character for a oneshot. Roleplaying her rage as bloodthirst manic. Thinking laughing psychotically while drunk on violence. Plus unarmored defense means i get to wear what ever "pretty dresses" I want.
Was specking into barbarian but recognized that being level 9 only gets me an advantage on saving throws and initiative. Which is nice but its a one shot and Im not used to typically having that so why not search for something better. Then it occured to me that barbarians dont have a lot to do with their bonus action and that the reckless attack procs sneak attack. So for only 2 levels into rogue i can get extra damage, proficiencies, things to do with my bonus action, keep my advantage on saving throws/initiative, AND it feels thematic for a psychotic little girl in a cloak to be stealthier than most.
Great sword with slasher feat is one of my favourite combos,if you crit an opponent has disadvantage which counters advantage from reckless attack.
Shop merchant gag had me rolling
The Tarantino gag had me creased
I'm playing a Bugbear (long arms racial feature gives him reach) barbarian in a friend's game, and his main weapon is a halberd and has both sentinel and Polearm master. With a 15 foot reach (20 foot when someone casts enlarge), he can stop people in their tracks from far away, spend all his attacks on them, then just take a 5 foot step back. Wash and repeat. One of our better tactics is for him to stand near the center of the group, while enlarged, and he can cover a MASSIVE area around him and hit anything within that 9x9 square. Plus being able to melee anything flying within 20 feet of you.
Played in a meatgrinder at a comic con with a druid barbarian multi class.
The two clerics realized the because I was taking half damage from everything, if they just pored their spell into me, and sent me up the gut we'd be unstoppable.
Jamed the game for the 4hr run time. Good memories
Feets/feats joke was gold and alchemist fire was a beautiful 😍 👌
I believe if someone says a class is too simple for them to get into then they aren't a good role player. Those are just people crutched by feeling like spell casting is the only way to roleplay.
I use it to mask the fact that i actually suck at roleplay and i have issues getting into it
But really, it all comes down to making a character you understand and like to play
I would argue that its because they have played so many games they are running out of "standard" ideas for character personalities and they likely have trouble doing anything new with a single class build. So they need to play a Bonk with the backstory of their monastery being wiped out by blah blah invoking a burning rage that can only be quenched by crushing the enemy. Or whatever. Or the drulockarian. Nature sucks, the pact he made is ticking him off, this guy is just angry all the time and it would be adorable if you werent worried he would hurl you through hell. Maybe with a spell, maybe with his grapple feat. :D
@@chrishubbard64 I mean, i have like 1 year of experience, so yeah lol
Also my first experience with RP
Or maybe there is more to the game than the roleplay? Like, obviously it's a big part of a role playing game, but hey ho the word GAME is in there too.
Barbarians are often completely braindead in combat. Rage and attack. Anything else is a waste of your kit, and you literally cannot use spells around your attacks to give the gameplay some texture. So you *need* to be invested in the roleplay, because you certainly aren't being stimulated once intitiaive is rolled.
@@justmonica9253 The whole point of DnD is the roleplay, if you want just the combat there's many games based on the combat system, like Divinity Original Sin or baldur's Gate
Even combat is meant to be an extension of RP but since the whole game is based on some old table top tactics game the combat rules are more detailed than most other stuff
NOW, you CAN make one shots that are only encounters with combat and there's nothing wrong with it, but in a real campaign you NEED RP or there's just nothing to it
To add ot it, Barbarians aren't just "i go there and whack it", Barbarians can do a lot of stuff with their strength like:
- Grapple and carry creatures towards or away from hazards
- Use something in the enviroment (like dislodging a boulder or collapsing a wall on a foe)
- Reach hard to get enemies (like spellcasters) with their excellent Athletics rolls and jump increases to pin them down
- Etc
Also, you are NOT barred from magic at all, only while raging. You can still use magic items, multi class into a class with magic or take feats to get spells.
Everyone always goes on about the barbarian/rouge multiclass, but sneak attack really doesn't synergise with rage very well. You're either making a finesse attack to get sneak attack (that negates your rage bonus) or using strength based attacked that won't give sneak attack but will give the rage bonus to damage.
Sneak attack requires a finesse weapon and you are still allowed to use str with it you will be stuck with a 1d8 weapon so going zealot getting an additional 1d6 + half barb level, wield a shield, and take the fighting initiate feat for the dueling fighting style
So it can work just doesn't deal the most damage
@@mohammadmurie exactly! It doesn't synergise as well as people expect. You have to take specific sub classes and feats to make it work almost as well as you'd think it does.
@@alifarquhar5188 yeah true the damage ain't the best but cunning action is good but still it ain't the best
But to be fair most mylti classes ain't that better to a pure build
@@mohammadmurie so true! Multiclass is ok for lower tier play but it really dilutes the abilities. Speaking as someone who plays cleric, if I'm going all the way to level 20, I want my deity on speed dial 😂
@@alifarquhar5188 same here with my barbarian and being basically a demi-god