While raging, barbarians do more damage, and halve the damage they sustain.Įvery time I speak to Swen Vincke, I ask him how the titular metropolis, Baldur’s Gate, is shaping up. Sustained rage might be more easily achieved by setting up a Twitter account, but there’s something evocative about the idea of a barbarian as an old boxer, imploring their coach to slap them across the face before the next bout - anything to get the blood up. “That means that if you’re not going to manage to reach an enemy for whatever reason, your best tactic is having somebody else from your party hit you,” explains Larian CEO Swen Vincke. Since you only get a handful of those per rest, the smart play is to sustain that rage for as long as possible, either by hitting something during your turn, or being hit by something. Raging is a way of life for barbarians, and a signature ability you can activate in combat using Rage Charges. It’s a typically meticulous transposition that holds true to the tabletop game’s definition of what makes a barbarian boil: “More than a mere emotion, their anger is the ferocity of a cornered predator, the unrelenting assault of a storm, the churning turmoil of the sea.”
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Working with D&D’s fifth edition, which has full and flavoursome rules that allow players to embody barbarians, the developers have adapted the class for use in Baldur's Gate 3. Larian Studios, the current custodians of the series, don’t have any such issues. “Baldur’s Gate 2 used third edition classes, but by then, it was too late.” “Second edition didn’t have the barbarian class,” remembers lead designer James Ohlen. But the primary reason for the misnomer was a gap in the rules of Dungeons & Dragons. It was a classification that came with its benefits: since every ranger was entitled to an animal companion, Minsc had justification for his connection to Boo, the “miniature giant space hamster” that lived in his inventory. Technically speaking, Minsc was a ranger - a man of the woods who just happened to spin into a rage during battle, hitting friend or foe for extra damage, while ignoring blows that would fell a tree. Baldur’s Gate’s most famous barbarian wasn’t actually a barbarian at all.
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