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4th Edition: Playtest a Barbarian

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Second Edit: See here for the Barbarian release, no fooling!

Edit: It appears Wizards has removed this snippet from the Table of Contents, sorry everyone!

The table of contents for Dragon #367 is up, and it looks like we’ll be getting an early look at the Barbarian class from the PHB 2 that won’t be printed until 2009.  Here is the excerpt from the table of contents:

Playtest: Barbarian
By RPG Staff
Our next playtest opportunity is here! Check out the barbarian class from Player’s Handbook 2, which doesn’t release until 2009.

It also looks like this issue of Dragon will have a few more juicy bits, such as an expansion on Gnolls as a playable race by Keith Baker, new types of golems and oozes (thank god!), history of the genasi, plus new / more rules for intelligent magical items by Logan Bonner.  I imagine the barbarian article will come out later in the month, but if it’s one of the earlier articles I’ll be ecstatic!  It’ll be very interesting to get a peak at the primal power source and how they’ll be handling new power sources in the future of 4th Edition.

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  7. I hope they go Striker. I also hope they go with Damage Resistance instead of high armor class. And in a perfect world, Barbarians in full rage should scare the party as much as the monsters.

    JesterOC

  8. My first 3.0 character was a Barbarian, and I was a bit disappointed that they were not putting them in as a Core class for 4e.

    I will be very curious to see how they are done up in 4e. It was a fun 3x class, but got a bit flat at the higher levels, when you just had a bunch of rage and a lot of attacks ever turn.

    With the powers system, it will be fun to see what other things they come up with besides just the Rage aspect. I would like to see something closer to the Iron Heroes Berserker.

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