Larian Got Rage Slightly Wrong (maybe not)

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

This is how Rage works in BG3:

Barbarians have three charges at their disposal by the time they reach Level 3. Once enraged, they need to do damage or receive damage in order to keep their Rage going for another turn.

This is how Rage works in 5e:

Your rage lasts for 1 minute. It ends early if you are knocked unconscious or if your turn ends and you haven’t attacked a hostile creature since your last turn or taken damage since then. You can also end your rage on your turn as a bonus action.

Crucially, the difference is that in 5e you don't have to actually land a hit to keep Rage up, you just have to attack (so if you attack and miss, Rage continues).

A small fix, but one I noticed from the patch notes.

[Zabu]

Its also noteworthy that do damage and attacked isnt the same thing.

Edit:
As in you can do damage to someone without attacking them.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

So, I'm creating a new Barbarian right now, and I noticed in the tooltip for Rage that it is actually written correctly according to 5e, so it may have just been the patch notes that were wrong.

Still need to test it in-game.

[Anarchy]

I was about to say, after the rogue cunning action thing being an everyone thing, if Rage works like this I will outright just remove the game from my library lol.

[Chroniver]

They've changed some things. Berserker seems far more useful than in the official tabletop too.

[Dremall]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Chroniver:

They've changed some things. Berserker seems far more useful than in the official tabletop too.

Unless they were going to implement exhaustion that was going to have to be a thing.

[Chroniver]

I'm all good with it, I love the concept of a berserker :)

[Anarchy]

Exhaustion for a bonus attack is the absolute most idiotic choice WOTC made and if they did away with that it's probably better than PHB, but I don't like the concept of only being able to BA attack with an improvised weapon when
A. You could go two weapon barbarian and have an actual weapon attack
B. Monks literally get a free bonus action attack just for being monks, without exhaustion or resource expenditure
it's probably better but it's still probably way massively lacking in comparison to the other PHB barbarian and every one that's been released since.

[『 NEO 』]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Hoch die Anarchie!:

Exhaustion for a bonus attack is the absolute most idiotic choice WOTC made and if they did away with that it's probably better than PHB, but I don't like the concept of only being able to BA attack with an improvised weapon when
A. You could go two weapon barbarian and have an actual weapon attack
B. Monks literally get a free bonus action attack just for being monks, without exhaustion or resource expenditure
it's probably better but it's still probably way massively lacking in comparison to the other PHB barbarian and every one that's been released since.

Well, there are a big difference between barbarian making a BA attack with berserker and the 2 examples you said.
A. 2 weapon barbarian is locked to a 1d6 dmg or 1d8 if you use a feat, berserker can make 2 attacks(3 since lvl5) with a 1d12 and, with a feat(great weapon master), all of those attacks can go with a +10 damage.
B. monks have a free BA attack only unarmed, and, as before, that damage doesn't even compare to the damage of a greataxe, with or without great weapon master.

and in adition of all of that, barbarians have from lvl 9 a feature that allows them everytime they do a crit, to roll an aditional dice of damage, wich is another d12 that is a lot of dmg

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από Tinball:

I have to say theFrenzy- improvised throw is a great homebrew. You can basically chuck anything at an enemy with it. I was throwing Flails, Warhammers, Wyll's Eyeball...

In 5e you are supposed to suffer a level of exhaustion after. BG3 players would revolt if that were true.

Yep, weaponized goblins...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY3l_Qw1IF8