I was thinking the other day that some of the barbarian rage powers are cool abilities they can use their powers with, and some reinforce the whole mythical barbarian thing, but then something occured to me. "Pulp" barbarians, like Conan, seem to be able to do tons of things in combat, but not from really being trained in how to do so, as much as making things up on the fly.
I was thinking about how it might work if barbarians had a rage power called "improvisation" that let them act as if they had a feat that they would otherwise meet the prerequisites for by spending rage points.
For example, barbarian sees a nice axe he wouldn't mind picking up and hacking with in conjunction with his longsword, spend some rage points, improvised two weapon figting for as long as he can afford to pay for it.
Barbarian wants to hit someone at range, but doesn't carry a ranged weapon . . . improvise throw anything and lob your sword at them . . .
I'm not sure how much this should cost per round, or what kind of prerequisites the power might have, but it sounded like something that would be good for improvising the kind of "on the fly" things that barbarians like Conan seem to be able to pull off.
I was thinking the other day that some of the barbarian rage powers are cool abilities they can use their powers with, and some reinforce the whole mythical barbarian thing, but then something occured to me. "Pulp" barbarians, like Conan, seem to be able to do tons of things in combat, but not from really being trained in how to do so, as much as making things up on the fly.
I was thinking about how it might work if barbarians had a rage power called "improvisation" that let them act as if they had a feat that they would otherwise meet the prerequisites for by spending rage points.
For example, barbarian sees a nice axe he wouldn't mind picking up and hacking with in conjunction with his longsword, spend some rage points, improvised two weapon figting for as long as he can afford to pay for it.
Barbarian wants to hit someone at range, but doesn't carry a ranged weapon . . . improvise throw anything and lob your sword at them . . .
I'm not sure how much this should cost per round, or what kind of prerequisites the power might have, but it sounded like something that would be good for improvising the kind of "on the fly" things that barbarians like Conan seem to be able to pull off.
I like this idea.
However, I don't think it should just be for one class. Everyone does this. More so, I don't think this sort of thing should be implemented. Anyone can pick up an axe and use it to hack or throw it without proficiency to do so. There's a negative modifier naturally, but you can do it.
That's the beauty of d20.