wow.... 45 points?!?
Gimme a minute to process this
seriously?
I have totally made a Halfling Titan Mauler so give me a second to share him ;)
This is the email I sent to the DM awhile back:
So I'm playing a halfling who was once young and fresh, living in an area more or less like the Shire. Happy, peaceful, simple lives of the halflings who lived there. But the endless sunshine of his home ended one day when a terrible illness swept through the village, outright killing and debilitating nearly all of its inhabitants. Our halfling hero feel into a devastating fever coma, locked in away in twisted nightmares and angry fever dreams. When he came too, the population had been wiped out with him as the only survivor. Understanding little of what happened to him and unable to distinguish this world from his fever nightmares, he tore off into the world.
So now he's a little brain-damaged, fairly insane, and uses an axe bigger than he is.
I give you: Milo: the halfling barbarian
I liked the concept because its (A) hilarious to me to imagine a halfling using an axe that weighs more than he does and (B) it works really well with the Titan Mauler giant fightin' stuff, since his concept of reality is on a Don Quixote level, it's all rather perfect actually.
I don't know what lv you're doing but I Stated him with:
STR 16
DEX 18
CON 18
INT 8
WIS 12
CHA 9
I would've milked the CHA more, but damn that halfling CHA bonus! :)
Building Barbarians isn't difficult. Power Attack should be your first feat, with Furious Focus lowering the penalty you have the feat to spare. It's better than Weapon Focus for sure. Cleave depends on your DM. Mine almost never has us fight hordes and when we do, I do just fine. Superstition is an excellent low level Rage Power. At Eight Lv you can start taking the Increased DR Rage power which is also hard to go wrong with. Who doesn't like more DR! You're going to be raging constantly in battle anyway. Also, everyone on the boards seems to love Beast Totem and its hard to argue with it.
Here are a few others with their preqs and the min lv:
-Step Up (Lv 1) Following Step (Preq: Step Up) Step Up and Strike (Lv 6)
-Come and Get Me (Lv 12)
-Reviewed Vigor (Lv 4) Regenerative Vigor (Lv 6)
Just throw all your every 4th lv stat points into STR. 16 is nice, but with the 45 pt buy game, you're gonna be way behind the consistent 20 STR of basically everyone else who swings a stick for a living. Even the rogues will probably have a solid 18.
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STR 16 = 17 points
DEX 18 = 13 points
CON 18 = 17 points
INT 8 = -2 ponits
WIS 12 = 2 points
CHA 9 = -4 points
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Unless I missed somehting, you still got 2 points. =)
18s for everybody! Yaaaaaay!
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45 pt buy & before lvl bonuses...
STR: 16
DEX: 18
CON: 18
INT: 10
WIS: 14
CHA: 9
You could have excellent Will resist, tracking and perception scores.
Alternatively, you could drop int & wis to get:
STR: 16
DEX: 20
CON: 18
INT: 8
WIS: 10
CHA: 9
Awesome physical defense.
Man, 45 is alot of points to work with.
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STR 16 = 17 points
DEX 18 = 13 points
CON 18 = 17 points
INT 8 = -2 ponits
WIS 12 = 2 points
CHA 9 = -4 points
...Unless I missed somehting, you still got 2 points. =)
Whoops, I did 40. I'm with Jarl on his stats, both of em. I'd go with the Wis one personally.
If you don't enjoy it you don't have to do it. Its worked well for our group for some time and we enjoy ourselves. If you're not here to help then please just do not reply.18s for everybody! Yaaaaaay!
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Meh. Sometimes we don't even bother with point buy, just assign whatever score you think is appropriate and go from there. It really doesn't hurt the game.
yeah die rolls can make some pretty crazy characters but it doesn't make the game un-dm-able you just have to adjust the encounters to make em a bit tougher.