barbarian fear save

[maibs]

I had this evil idea that I think the staff are gonna like.

make the barbarian fear save the same as the assassin death attack save but with will/charisma
so instead of just opposed 3/4 intimidate vs will

it'd be 15+1/2 barb levels +cha modifier

reasoning being
intimidate is based off charisma

it'd be just as challenging to build with effect as an asassin currently is(dont see many assassins around compared to other classes and when you do they are heavily assassin not xfgtr/xmonk/5assassin)

the truly evil part though is charisma is usually treated as a dump stat for barbarians, so doing this would mean less min-maxing on stats for pure barbs.

c'mon it's eeeevil
you love it right ?

[disastro]

i thought the current system already took charisma into account (via the total intimidate skill check). so your barbs already want high charisma for the fear dc.

[diddy33]

the bad thing about the aura now is you can only fear something once every 2 minutes or something. this includes mobs. but it only does this for the barbarian, if you were to go fight trolls at low levels and get feared you can continue getting feared. i don't see how that's right, i know the whole use the fear aura and keep running in and out till they are feared trick is kinda cheesy, but can't we make it so they still get negatives if they fail the save? kinda useless that you put the feat, and skill points into this so the target only is effected for a round or two at the beginning of a fight.

[disastro]

dont they still get the -2 ac and 5% vulnerability to damage from the aura even if they make their save (or if they fail the save and then come out of the fear) ?

[diddy33]

i'm not quite sure on the log, but i know the animation doesn't come back, so i figured they wouldn't get the negatives.

[Heeza]

Too bad you couldn't code it somehow to work opposite. By this I mean the lower your Charisma, the more effective the Fear would be. Who's going to be afraid of a stikingly beautiful and charming Barbarian; If there is such a thing.

[disastro]

charisma is not just a prettiness score.. it also measures force of personality.

ugly people with high charisma:
emperor palpatine/darth vader/napoleon