Heya all,
I checked out the Mooncursed Archetype for the Barbarian in Horror Adventures, and I had a thought: Why not apply that archetype to a Bloodrager and have a spellcasting (kinda) shapeshifting martial? Am I mistaken or would that be really easy to do? It seems like the archetype doesn't alter or change any class abilities that are missing from the Bloodrager. I might be mistaken though.
First, can anyone think of any gamebreaking reasons why applying this archetype to the BR wouldn't work or would be a bad idea? Also, and I'm confused about this, is my idea already allowable by RAW or would it be a house rule?
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Not allowable by RAW. Bloodrager is not the same class as Barbarian and can't take the same archetypes even if they replace features that both classes have.
It does look like a balanced houserule to me as there's nothing about the archetype that's more useful to a bloodrager than to a barbarian. In fact, losing greater and mighty bloodrage hurts the bloodrager more because they come with an additional ability to cast a spell on yourself that the barbarian doesn't get.
The archetype may not play well with some bloodline powers. For example, the Demonic Bulk ability (Abyssal Bloodline 4) doesn't stack with polymorph effects like Shifting Rage, and the Abyssal Bloodrage power (Abyssal Bloodline 12) modifies the Str bonus and AC penalty from bloodrage, which strictly speaking wouldn't apply if you don't get either. Similarly, the draconic bloodline's Dragon Form is a polymorph effect that wouldn't work with Shifting Rage.
Primalist could be used to get rid of such powers.
Those are good points. I was thinking of combining my mooncursed bloodrager with the arcane bloodline. There's just something cool about a hasted, blurred werewolf running around carving bad guys up.
