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So, I am intending to roleplay an urban barbarian soon, and while reading his "Crowd Control" ability i got confused about the "intimidate bonus" part.

The ability says at the last part:

"(...) and she gains a bonus equal to 1/2 her barbarian level on Intimidate checks to influence crowds."

However, if you read the intimidate skill you get the feeling you can only intimidate ONE target per action:

"Intimidate

Influence Attitude

You can use Intimidate to force an opponent to act friendly toward you for 1d6 × 10 minutes with a successful check. The DC of this check is equal to 10 + the target’s Hit Dice + the target’s Wisdom modifier."

The two ability doesn't sound compatible for me. Also, hypothetically saying that you CAN influence more then one person with intimidate, how does the DM calculate the CR?

Does he apply on test for each person in the crowd? That seems the most reasonable to me .

Thank you for your attention!
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Use the performance combat section of ultimate combat (same book as the Urban Barbarian.)
Silver Crusade

Typically how this would work is you consider the "crowd" to be a single creature (think a swarm of humans) for these kinds of effects. Thus, I would rule you take a penalty on intimidating them depending on the size of the crowd--figure out roughly what size category the crowd would be and calculate it normally.

Any PCs or important, named NPCs within the crowd would be handled separately though.

Edit: Or use the performance combat section like Maezer said. Ctrl F didn't find anything specifically for intimidate, but it seems like it should be easy enough to translate it.

Hmm...

I didn't realize the archetype was designated for that.

That makes sense though.

Thank you!
Panchio wrote:

Hmm...

I didn't realize the archetype was designated for that.

That makes sense though.

Thank you!

We use the archetype to represent the Ulfen Guard, in our games. Makes a lot of sense.

Grand Lodge
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By the way, I would avoid all caps thread titles in the future.
blackbloodtroll wrote:
By the way, I would avoid all caps thread titles in the future.

Unless of course you happen to be AM BARBARIAN!!!

Grand Lodge

Also, an Urban Barnarian doesn't make much sense either.

Is that like a Hobo, who lives in the city?
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