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.
gamefiend says
Let me be the first to say –ooooooo. Can’t wait.
Reverend Mike says
“I’ve got a raging clue.”
“My clue’s pointing this way.”
“Mmm…I’ve got such a big clue right now.”
“Ugh, now my clue’s pointing this way.”
“Ooo, let’s follow THAT clue!”
Needless to say, I’m psyched…
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Sam Judson says
Can I second the ‘oooooooo’.
Donny_the_DM says
OMG…Rev, that is SO wrong. Besides you forgot to put the giggles in 🙂
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Reverend Mike says
I concur…
I was going to express my excitement for the barbarian by claiming to have a raging something, but that would’ve been a crude pun…
Plus, that episode was on last night…I couldn’t help myself…
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OriginalSultan says
Anyone know what role the Barbarian will be? Defender? Controller?
JesterOC says
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.
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DNAphil says
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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The Chatty DM says
And here I thought you guys had gotten an exclusive occasion to playtest the barbarian yourselves.
Still way cool!
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Bartoneus says
It looks like they’ve editted the Barbarian playtest out of that Dragon table of contents. Now I’m sad!
The Game says
Quoth the Rouse:
“The Barbarian is still bouncing back between design and editing and needed more time before it was ready for prime time.
Sorry, it will be ready for Oct.”