Rage In heavy armor

[FerrousAradicen]

That's some big ol bull crap that barbarians don't gain buffs from raging while in heavy armour.

It doesn't even make sense, just nonsense made up for "balancing" reasons.

[Yojo0o]

They don't even have proficiency with heavy armor. Haven't in any edition I'm aware of. What sort of barbarian wears full plate?

[Cutlass Jack]

Not familiar with Conan?

[Tin Can Kat]

Too much clothing muffles the angry. It needs to fly free.

[Rusted Metal]

You're right that's bull crap they should make it so you have to be butt naked to rage.

[Cutlass Jack]

You'd rage too if you had to go into battle naked.

[katzenkrimis]

They don't wear heavy armour in this game.

That's what makes the Fighter and Paladin unique.

Can't have everyone allowed to wear power armour.

Especially Barbarians. They are essentially savages.

[Ronin Gamer]

Apparently we have a pretty new player here, Barbarians have largely been that way for a long time.
There are variants to a Barbarian in Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous where you can wear heavy armor I believe while raging, though rage works slightly differently in that game.

I mean when your rage cuts all damage you take in half from weapons normally, and if you are bear all but psychic damage, why does wearing armor really matter at that point?

[KDA Seraphine]

Since you are wearing heavy armour, you are "civilised".
"Civilised" people won't rage.

[Dremall]

People are way overvaluing armor. There will be a point where most enemies will have such high bonuses to their rolls that they're pretty much checking to see if they crit when they do attack roles. Barbarians are great tanks as while they're raging they half that pretty much automatic damage.

Even for fighters and other classes will only be valued for the stats and effects it provides and not the AC.

[zmanx]

Originally posted by Rusted Metal:

You're right that's bull crap they should make it so you have to be butt naked to rage.

I thought that’s how it was originally

[zmanx]

Originally posted by Dremall:

People are way overvaluing armor. There will be a point where most enemies will have such high bonuses to their rolls that they're pretty much checking to see if they crit when they do attack roles. Barbarians are great tanks as while they're raging they half that pretty much automatic damage.

Even for fighters and other classes will only be valued for the stats and effects it provides and not the AC.

Ehhhhh, in DnD that usually only happens with high CR enemies, we’re capping at 12 so having, say, 21 AC is still gonna be super useful.

An adult white dragon (CR 13) only has a +11 to hit chance and an AC of 18. Being able to cap a dragon’s chance to hit you at 50% is pretty significant. And if you can force disadvantage (say with Blur) so it has to make 2 rolls dropping it to 25% chance, your golden. Obviously it would still have breath attacks which turn into saving throws by the PC, but those only have a chance of recharging after 1 use

[FerrousAradicen]

You know what, I don't even mind not getting the defensive buffs from raging, it's the damage I want.

Raging is all about sacrificing defence for offensive with reckless abandon, that has nothing to do with what you're wearing, unless it's DnD because ♥♥♥♥ me I suppose.

[Super_]

maybe it should be like druid where you can't wear metal

[MarkFranz]

Originally posted by Yojo0o:

They don't even have proficiency with heavy armor. Haven't in any edition I'm aware of. What sort of barbarian wears full plate?

Khorne Berserkers would fit

[FerrousAradicen]

Man it would be great if there was literally no reason stopping me from raging in heavy armour.