| nadrewod |
Hi everyone, I'm the player who Molech/"W E Ray" made this thread about.
To answer some questions:
...technically Urban Barbarian and unchained barbarian do not stack as they both modify rage.
I understand, I mainly liked Urban Barbarian for the other changes (bonus AC when surrounded by enemies, class skill in Diplomacy (which the DM has tied to a new skill specifically for Gather Information), and Linguistics (DM altered the skill to give us two languages per rank, or 1 ancient language for 4 ranks). I'd be happy to use just the Unchained Barbarian rage instead, if for no other reason than it would make calculations simpler.
I would honestly be more worried about the 16RP Android race unbalancing things than I would about anything the Barbarian class can do.
The main reason I went with the race was because they're one of the races that has Darkvision without Light Sensitivity, the "Emotionless" trait could play really well with character background/roleplaying, and I (naively) thought that the "Repairing Nanites" trait would give me a once-per-day heal for 24 hit points (twice my Barbarian's d12) rather than 2 hit points (twice my Level 1 Barbarian's Hit Dice).
Yes, lorewise, Emotionless does conflict with Core/Urban rage, but there isn't any typing of the Unchained bonuses as "morale", so I thought that we could fluff the Barbarian rage out as something to do with my Android's internal systems ("overclocking" for rage, "system rebooting/repairing" for post-rage fatigue) and otherwise keep the Emotionless trait intact. If that doesn't work, then I am fine changing the race or dropping the class, whichever works better.
In summary, I'm still in the fleshing-out stage of character creation. If possible, I would like to make some kind of Android Barbarian (or, if Barbarian doesn't work, Magus), but I'm willing to take any and all suggestions for making a front-line adventurer who can keep my party's many casters out of direct harm's way (whether by tanking the blows or by killing them before they can kill any of my party).