6.3 Barbarian

Rank (Level)	Battleforged Resilience	Battlerager	Outland Savage	Primal Warrior	Totemist
1 (1)	Instant recovery	Rage	Outlandish weaponry, savage precision	Primal maneuvers	Totem animal
2 (4)	Battle-scarred	Fearless anger	Versatile savagery	Augmented maneuvers	Animal instincts
3 (7)	Resilient blow	Aggravated violence	Savage rush	Primal maneuvers+	Feral ferocity
4 (10)	Primal resilience	Primal brawn	Primal agility	Augmented maneuvers+	Totem animal+
5 (13)	Limitless recovery	Insensible anger	Savage precision+	Primal maneuvers+	Feral explosion
6 (16)	Battle-scarred+	Unwavering rage	Endless rush	Augmented maneuvers+	Animal instincts+
7 (19)	Unbreakable	Titanic rage	Primal rush	Primal maneuvers+	Totem animal+

Barbarians are primal warriors who fight using raw physical prowess and unfettered emotions. Most barbarians originate from the outskirts of civilization, where the societal constraints of civilization are less present. Of course, becoming a barbarian is no secret rite. The only thing that is required is a willingness to fully experience one’s emotions and channel them into physical betterment. This path evokes ancient memories from a time when physical supremacy was sufficient for victory, before the complexity of organized warfare. Anyone can discover that path for themselves.

Barbarians are famous for their furious battlerage. Anger is one of the easiest emotions to channel into the violence of battle. It is a common starting point for new barbarians. However, any emotion can be used as a source of primal power, as long as it is sufficiently intense.

Barbarians and monks have a curious relationship. Members of both classes place a great importance on physical excellence, and believe that the mind and body must work together to maximize potential. However, a typical monk sees emotions as a tool at best and an obstacle at worst. They value serenity and control over their mind and body. From the perspective of a barbarian, monks completely surrender to civilization’s taming and placating influences, and abandon their primal heritage.

Rangers and druids are natural allies of barbarians, since all three groups prefer to live at the edges of civilization. However, each has different reasons for their preference. Barbarians enjoy the freedom of the frontier. However, they are often too social to live as hermits in the deep wilderness. Druids prefer nature to civilization ideologically, and rangers are best able to fulfill their responsibilities on the frontier.

Alignment: Any.

Archetypes: Barbarians have the Battleforged Resilience, Battlerager, Outland Savage, Primal Warrior, and Totemist archetypes.

6.3.1 Base Class Effects

If you choose barbarian as your base class, you gain the following benefits.

Attributes

You gain a +1 bonus to your Strength. In addition, you gain a +1 bonus to either your Constitution or your Dexterity.

Hit Points

You have 10 hit points + twice your Constitution, plus 2 hit points per level beyond 1. This increases as your level increases, as indicated below.

• Level 7: 24 hit points + four times your Constitution, plus 4 hit points per level beyond 7.
• Level 13: 50 hit points + eight times your Constitution, plus 8 hit points per level beyond 13.
• Level 19: 100 hit points + fifteen times your Constitution, plus 15 hit points per level beyond 19.

Resources

You learn four trained skills from among your class skills (see Skills).

Weapon Proficiencies

You are proficient with simple weapons and all non-exotic weapons.

Armor Proficiencies

You are proficient with light and medium armor.

Class Skills

You have the following class skills:

• Strength: Climb, Jump, Swim.

• Dexterity: Balance, Flexibility, Ride.

• Constitution: Endurance.

• Intelligence: Medicine.

• Perception: Awareness, Creature Handling, Deception, Persuasion, Survival.

• Other: Intimidate.

6.3.2 Battleforged Resilience

This archetype improves your durability in combat.

Rank 1 – Instant Recovery

You can use the recover ability as a minor action. When you do, you do not remove any conditions affecting you.

Rank 2 – Battle-Scarred

You gain a bonus equal to three times your rank in this archetype to your hit points (see Hit Points). In addition, you gain a +1 bonus to your vital rolls (see Vital Wounds).

Rank 3 – Resilient Blow

Rank 4 – Primal Resilience

You gain a +1 bonus to your Constitution.

Rank 5 – Limitless Recovery

You can use the recover ability any number of times between short rests. In addition, when you use it as a standard action, you only increase your fatigue level by one.

Rank 6 – Battle-Scarred+

The hit point bonus increases to four times your rank in this archetype.

Rank 7 – Unbreakable

You cannot lose more than 100 hit points per round. Any excess damage beyond that point does not reduce your hit points. This includes hit point loss below 0 hit points. Attacks with special effects, such as inflicting conditions on you, still treat you as if you lost hit points from the attack.

6.3.3 Battlerager

This archetype grants you a devastating rage, improving your combat prowess.

Rank 1 – Rage

For most barbarians, this represents entering a furious rage. Some barbarians instead enter a joyous battle trance or undergo a partial physical transformation into a more fearsome form.

Rank 2 – Fearless Anger

You are immune to being frightened (-2 Mental, -2 accuracy vs. source) and panicked (-4 Mental, cannot attack source).

Rank 3 – Aggravated Violence

Rank 4 – Primal Brawn

You gain a +1 bonus to your Strength.

Rank 5 – Insensible Anger

You ignore all vital wound effects except for unconsciousness and death. Each vital wound still causes the normal -2 penalty to vital rolls.

Rank 6 – Unwavering Rage

You are immune to Compulsion and Emotion attacks during your rage ability.

Rank 7 – Titanic Rage

When you use your rage ability, you can grow by one size category, to a maximum of Huge. Increasing your size gives you a +1 bonus to Strength for the purpose of determining your weight limits, a -1 penalty to your Reflex defense, and a -5 penalty to Stealth. It also increases your base speed (see Size Categories). Since this is a mundane ability, it stacks with other size-increasing effects.

6.3.4 Outland Savage

This archetype improves your mobility and combat prowess with direct, brutal abilities.

Rank 1 – Outlandish Weaponry

You can gain proficiency with exotic weapons at the cost of one insight point per weapon group (see Exotic Weapons). You must already be proficient with all non-exotic weapons from that weapon group.

Rank 1 – Savage Precision

You gain a +2 accuracy bonus with Brawling abilities (see Special Combat Abilities).

Rank 2 – Versatile Savagery

Choose one of the following weapon tags (see Weapon Tags): Grappling, Mounted, Thrown (30/60), or Tripping. You may treat all non-projectile weapons you use as if they had the chosen weapon tag. If you choose the Thrown weapon tag, it does not affect your natural weapons. Whenever your rank in this archetype increases, you can change which weapon tag you chose with this ability.

Rank 3 – Savage Rush

Rank 4 – Primal Agility

You gain a +1 bonus to your Dexterity.

Rank 5 – Savage Precision+

The accuracy bonus increases to +4.

Rank 6 – Endless Rush

You gain a +10 foot bonus to your land speed.

Rank 7 – Primal Rush

You can use the sprint ability during the movement phase without increasing your fatigue level. After you use this ability, you briefly cannot use it again.

6.3.5 Primal Warrior

This archetype grants you abilities to use in combat and improves your physical skills.

Rank 1 – Primal Maneuvers

You can channel your primal energy into ferocious attacks. You gain access to one of the following combat styles: dirty fighting, herald of war, or unbreakable defense . In addition, you gain access to any combat style of your choice (see Combat Styles). You may spend insight points to gain access to one additional combat style per insight point. You can only learn primal maneuvers from primal combat styles that you have access to.

You learn two rank 1 primal maneuvers. You may spend insight points to learn one additional maneuver per insight point.

When you gain access to a new rank in this archetype, you can exchange any number of maneuvers you know for other maneuvers, including maneuvers of a higher rank.

Advancement: Some primal maneuvers also increase in power in unique ways based on your rank in this archetype, as indicated in their descriptions.

Rank 2 – Augmented Maneuvers

You gain the ability to customize your primal maneuvers. For each rank 1 primal maneuver you know, choose one augment from the list below and apply it to that maneuver. Augments scale in power with your “excess rank”. Your excess rank with a maneuver is equal to your rank in this archetype minus the rank of the maneuver.

Whenever you increase your rank in this archetype, you can change your augments. However, you must still apply them to rank 1 primal maneuvers.

Finishing Maneuver: You gain an accuracy bonus equal to twice your excess rank against creatures who are at less than their maximum hit points. You can only apply this augment to maneuvers which cause you to make a melee strike.

Mighty Maneuver: You take an accuracy penalty equal to 4 - your excess rank but the strike deals double weapon damage. If your excess rank is at least 5, this becomes an accuracy bonus. You can only apply this augment to maneuvers which cause you to make a strike.

Precise Maneuver: You gain an accuracy bonus equal to your excess rank.

Reckless Maneuver: You gain an accuracy bonus equal to twice your excess rank. However, you briefly take a -4 penalty to your defenses after you use the maneuver. You can only apply this augment to maneuvers which cause you to make a melee strike.

Widened Maneuver: The area affected by your chosen maneuver doubles. If your excess rank is at least 4, the area triples instead. You can only apply this augment to maneuvers that affect an area.

Rank 3 – Primal Maneuvers+

You learn an additional primal maneuver. In addition, you gain access to rank 3 primal maneuvers.

Rank 4 – Augmented Maneuvers+

You can also choose an augment for each of your rank 3 primal maneuvers.

Rank 5 – Primal Maneuvers+

You gain access to rank 5 primal maneuvers.

Rank 6 – Augmented Maneuvers+

You can also choose an augment for each of your rank 5 primal maneuvers.

Rank 7 – Primal Maneuvers+

You learn an additional primal maneuver. In addition, you gain access to rank 7 primal maneuvers.

6.3.6 Totemist

This archetype allows you to embody the spirits of apex predators to improve your combat ability.

Rank 1 – Totem Animal

You choose a totem animal that represents you. Each totem animal grants you abilities that are associated with that animal.

Bear: Whenever you take damage from a creature other than yourself, you briefly gain a +2 accuracy bonus.

Crocodile: Once per round, when you damage a creature with a melee strike, you can use this ability to push it into any space adjacent to you. This is a Size-Based ability, so it has no effect on creatures that are two or more size categories larger than you.

Eagle: You gain low-light vision, allowing you to see in shadowy illumination (see Low-light Vision). In addition, you reduce your longshot penalty by 1 (see Weapon Range Limits).

Lion: You gain a +1 bonus to accuracy as long as you have an ally adjacent to you.

Shark: You gain a +2 bonus to accuracy against creatures within Short (30 ft.) range of you that are below their maximum hit points.

Wolf: At the start of each action phase, you may choose one ally adjacent to you. That ally gains a +1 bonus to accuracy for the rest of the round.

Rank 2 – Animal Instincts

You gain a +2 bonus to the Creature Handling skill, and a +2 bonus to one skill based on your choice of totem animal:

• Bear: Endurance
• Crocodile: Stealth
• Eagle: Awareness
• Lion: Intimidate
• Shark: Swim
• Wolf : Survival

Rank 3 – Feral Ferocity

Rank 4 – Totem Animal+

The benefit from your totem animal ability improves.

Bear: The accuracy bonus also applies whenever you are below half your maximum hit points.

Crocodile: If the creature loses hit points from the strike, you can also knock it prone (half speed, -2 Armor and Ref) or enter a grapple with it (see Grappling). This is a Size-Based ability.

Eagle: You gain a +1 bonus to your Perception.

Lion: The accuracy bonus applies as long as an ally is within Short (30 ft.) range of you.

Shark: The accuracy bonus increases to +3.

Wolf: You can choose an ally within Short (30 ft.) range of you, rather than only an adjacent ally.

Rank 5 – Feral Explosion

Whenever you explode with an attack roll, you gain a +2 accuracy bonus with the attack (see Exploding Attacks). As normal, this bonus does not stack with itself, even if you explode multiple times with the same attack roll.

Rank 6 – Animal Instincts+

The skill bonuses increase to +4.

Rank 7 – Totem Animal+

The benefit from your totem animal ability improves further.

Bear: The accuracy bonus increases to +3.

Crocodile: The creature does not have to lose hit points for you to knock it prone or grapple it.

Eagle: The Perception bonus increases to +2.

Lion: The accuracy bonus increases to +2.

Shark: The accuracy bonus increases to +4.

Wolf: The accuracy bonus increases to +2.