Please Consider Improvements to Aspect of the Bear barbarian perk

Started by CondorHero, August 05, 2016, 04:47:37 AM

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CondorHero

While the flavor of this perk is great, the bear form is bad mechanically. I would caution anyone putting their charisma beyond 12 if you're taking this perk.

Your character stats remains the same in bear form, with the addition rage bonus, but bear form has no armor, and the creature weapon are considerably inferior to the weapons you had on hand. They're like 1d8, 1d8, and 1d10. And they're single-handed thus negating the 1.5 strength bonus of using two-handed weapons, and without the benefit of a shield's AC.

Most barbarian rage is a mean of going offensive or defensive, this bear rage should be more offensively inclined. Not sure how hard it is to make it but some change to the damage of the creature weapon would be nice. 2d6 or 2d8 on claws and bite attacks, and give the bear form some natural AC or DR to compensate the lack of armor/equipment.

Talir

While some of the arguments here do not make for good honey, namely the point about stats, armor (if natural AC was meant), the degree of consideration (arguable) and suggestion for 2d8 claws; I have done a couple of tweaks. Should be available next time the server resets.