Shattered Kingdoms

Great, great idea.

I'm going to pipe up here about barbarians because I have a skill idea for them.

I don't think anyone will disagree with me when I say that when a barbarian reaches second ageing, they should loose the berserk and fury skills. Hmm? Think about it. A 90 year old human man is going to throw himself into a mad rage and filled with adrenaline and heightened combat prowess? He's lucky if he can still walk under his own power.

That's why I propose the chieftain skill for barbarians. Cheiftain is a grandmaster skill that can be learned upon the second aging for a barbarian. At the same time the barbarian looses berserk and fury.

Chieftain basically represents the barbarians lifetime of hard work and reputation gained through time, his status is elevated by other barbarians and he is granted respect as sort of a tribal elder. Like natives, they have great respect for elders.

What it does is allows the barbarian to "tame" if you will other barbarians (NPCs) and use them as pets. It's basically like the tame skill, based off cha that a barbarian can use to get some NPCs under his control. How tough the NPCs can be depends on game balance. I'm not proposing that barb can walk around with a lvl 50 barb NPC charmed with no cost to himself. But still a significant NPC could be "tamed".

I'd like to see a barbarian specialized in morningstars, or a swashie spec'd in khurki's that would be sweet....

This is after they age, they have already lost STR, CON, and DEX.

It makes sense to me that if your getting old and can't fight as well that you'd start employing a few of the techniques you've learned with your trusty side arm...

I voted yes.