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More Information Edit History. This page does not exist. There's a genuine worry that one day I will die, and my survivors will be clearing out my possessions, and one of them will pick this book at random off the shelf, read a couple of paragraphs, and be like, "Did Uncle John keep a collection of white supremacist literature because he was one of those alt-right millenials we read about in history class? They were the guys who fought more with ferocity than technique, and I never really questioned why they got Nature as a class skill or were always depicted wearing loincloths and fur boots.
Barbarians need a culture to explain where they come from. Specifically, they need a "barbaric" culture. Let's just take a look at a couple of the Barbarian kits, shall we? The Plainsrider. Expert horsemen. Their abilities are "counting coup" and "war cry. Maybe the Islander. He believes in a life force called "Mana" and wears a grass skirt and shell necklace. Flip forward a bit to the Barbarian priest kits.
The first one, the Dreamwalker. They refer to the world we live in as "the Dreaming. Maybe we should let The Complete Barbarian's Handbook tell us what these "barbarian" cultures are like. Actually, you know what, let's not. The original plan was to pull quotes from the book that showed how incredibly fucking racist it was and perhaps accompany them with a bit of snarky commentary that demonstrated that I knew exactly how awful all of these quotes were.
But then my shift ended before I started writing and on my drive home, I cooled down and realized that the original plan would have been but a hair's width away from just me being a white guy sitting around and making tasteless race jokes. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background. For printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book.
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