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Heh heh. Part two of me crafty plan.
Yesterday start this thread about awesome Monk stories and examples. Folks shared nice. Complimented what Lord Twig tried to start.
But me know Barbarians! Not let Monks show off without flaunt how Barbarians do it better.
As me said twice now: Pathfinder about storytelling. So purpose of Monk is storytelling.
Purpose of Barbarian is storytelling too! Show those Monks you do it better. Yur! Yur! Allons-y!
My 2nd level Barb got separated from the party by a moving wall trap and ambushed in complete darkness by an owl bear skeleton. It got the higher init so I ended up grappled before I could rage or draw my greatsword. So what do I do? I grab my heavy pick and start giving as bad as I'm getting. I think we traded blows for 3 rounds and I was down to like 2hp (fortunately urban barb so no suddenly dead syndrome). If any of my attacks had missed I'd have been rolling a new character (and trust me, the dice can be vindictive to me sometimes).
A friend of mine wrestled and killed a bear barehanded in order to cook dinner one day for his new minions. On a forge! That's problem solving for you.
I saw another player kill three guys from a sitting position...while not raging...with one blow apiece...and he was level 1 to their 3 each. I have never seen three crits in a row since.
OK, so there I am with my adventuring group. We're underground. Making our way through an infested abandoned city. We come across 3 undead ogres. The player in me missed the part about them wielding halberds.
I rage and charge in. Because that's what I do.
I get hit 3 times including one crit. GM figures up damage. Looks at me and says, "That's 68 points of damage." We were like level 5 or something.
I cringe, look at the guy playing the cleric and say, "Well, I'm down to like 5 hit points now."
Everyone else at the table reacts about this way - "68?!? That would have killed me twice over."
"Well, it's a good thing that I'm not you isn't it?"
I once knew a barbarian who got so angry he ripped a tree out by its roots and beat a treant with it.
Ever been so angry that you punched a ghost? My barbarian did, and he had it coming too!
I was playing my half orc barbarian one campaign while in a dungeon, it recently started so i think we were around level 2? maybe 1 it has been a while. Anywho, after scouring this dungeon we find ourselves in a labyrinth getting stalked, glimpses of a large beast out of the corner of our eyes etc. After building up the tension as we see the exit we get ambushed from behind by a minotaur!
The rest of the party runs while i charge the creature, getting a crit with my great axe while not killing it severely wounding it, and evading its counter attack while killing it with my second blow! stunning our DM and the rest of the party and i got myself a fancy masterwork greataxe for the feat :-D
Next major combat during the confusion i got caught in a falling rock trap instantly killing the character -.-
i got caught in a falling rock trap instantly killing the character -.-
wait...ROCKS ACTUALLY FELL AND SOMEONE DIED...I thought that was just a saying...
i got caught in a falling rock trap instantly killing the character -.-wait...ROCKS ACTUALLY FELL AND SOMEONE DIED...I thought that was just a saying...
lol nope, believe me we all had to take a break due to laughing so hard. Too go out like that after such a good showing was absurd XD
My barbarian got grappled by a mimic and couldn't use her great sword, so what does any good barbarian with the beast totem powers do that's right rage and bite baby. Three rounds later one dead mimic and one extremely beat up barbarian but she lived.
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I once saw a barbarian who beat a rogue at both the perception check to find a trap and the disable device check to disarm it (he rolled 2 nat20's, rogue didn't roll above a 5). Now, I don't know why the barbarian could disable device, but it helped that he could. Also saw a barbarian disable a trap before the rogue could...with his scythe crit.
I once gave a barbarian flight so he could escape from a fight while wounded. He proceeded to grapple and pin the guy he was fighting... to the ceiling! Then punch him out. That was pretty awesome.
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My barbarian, first encounter, walks up to fire beetle, crits, kills it instantly, second encounter, walks up to goblin rogue, crits it, kills it instantly, next round walks up to caster, crits, kills it instantly.
What the hell kind of Barbarian walks?
My Barbarian was running up these rickety stairs on the inside of tower. We had to make acrobatics or dex checks every so often. My dex wasn't bad and I did have few ranks in acrobatics but rolled terrible. I ran up to 40 feet and fell, up to 80 and fell. I got up close to the top then failed reflex save when large dropped on us and down I went again. I had a ton of hit points a high con stat and rolling lucky on my hit points. I rolled 12 for hit points 3 time in row leveling up. By the time I got the top so the cleric could heal me I had to rage to keep myself alive. My friends still talk about that one.
I was a chaotic evil barbarian. Our party healer was a lawful good druid or something (no one could tell what he was because he purposely made his guy suck) who only spoke in riddles. Healer talks to this giant crow to find out where the BBEG is and when I ask him what the crow said, he starts spouting off riddles. After about the third riddle I beheaded him with no warning at all, tossed his head off a nearby ledge and then killed his snake companion thing. Turns out the BBEG was one perception check away, so I basically killed him for nothing, but it hilarious.
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I had a CN Barbarian who was trying to assault his way onto a ship. The crew was trying to hold him off (the rest of the party was going up the other ramp while I had their attention) and getting cut down. The captain used his whip to disarm his greatsword and one of the deckhands picked it up.
So being a barbarian he finally decided to rage against this insult and pulled out his backup scythe, attacked the guy crying "No one touches my weapon but me!" Crit, confirm, sliced in half deckhand. Rest of the crew decided there was a leak at the bottom of the boat that they needed to get into the water to check.
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During a PFS scenario my rogue was paired up with a barbarian who was taught to stay 15 ft behind the rogue when exploring a dungeon and kept the rest of the party behind her so I could actually scout for traps and other dangers.
This worked perfectly. It enabled my rogue to actually do her job, and at one encounter both my rogue and the barbarian shined in their respective roles.
I spotted an unusual lair of something and warned the others of this. So they move up, and I move in a bit to see what it is. No surprise round, it had heard us coming, it's a ... dire skunk. It gets to act first and sprays me with it's foul stench thing, I act second running away from it as fast as I can because I failed my save against it and was nauseated, the barbarian acts then, flies into a rage, charges, and crits with an earthbreaker killing the skunk instantly before the rest of the party got to their initiative.
Aftermath:
One of the others was an animal lover monk/paladin who had healed a bear we pummeled earlier in the adventure, crying over the body of the skunk because it could not be healed anymore and the barbarian apologizing for oneshotting it.