Mad Dog Barbarian - Rage and Rage Powers


Rules Questions


I've been looking for a clear answer on this, but not found anything even vaguely solid...

The Mad Dog Barbarian Archetype (from Animal Archive, and here) doesn't get Rage until 4th level and

Mad Dog Barbarian wrote:
Rage (Ex): A mad dog gains this ability at 4th level, except that her effective barbarian level for the ability is equal to her barbarian level – 3.

Various Rage Powers have a prereq of a specific Barbarian level, which is phrased as follows

Renewed Vigor wrote:
A barbarian must be at least 4th level before selecting this power

Two questions:

1) Does a Mad Dog get Greater Rage, Tireless Rage and Mighty Rage at the normal level, as they are class features gained at a specific level?

2) Does a Mad Dog use Class Level or (Class Level - 3) to determine when they may take Rage Powers.

Or possibly both could be asked as:
What parts of the Rage class feature is affected by the Mad Dog having an effective level of (Class Level - 3)?


1)yes.
2)class level -3


Interesting side note I realized today about the Mad Dog: It has two defining class features that can't be used at the same time.

Anything you make an animal companion do technically requires a handle animal check. Well, handle animal is a charisma based skill that can't be used while raging.

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