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Dungeons & Dragons character class

The barbarian is a playable character class in the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role playing game. The class was introduced in 1985 and went through a number of variations in subsequent editions of the game.

The barbarian is based on Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian, Gardner Fox's Kothar and to a lesser extent Fritz Lieber's Fafhrd. An illustration of a barbarian appeared already in the original publication of the original 1974 Dungeons & Dragons set, drawing inspiration from a panel depicting Nick Fury in Strange Tales.

The first official barbarian character class was introduced by Gary Gygax in Dragon #63 (July 1982), as a sub class of fighter. The barbarian later appears in the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons manual, Unearthed Arcana in 1985. The barbarian, along with the cavalier, received a revision in Dragon magazine #148 (August 1989), as the author David Howery felt that the class as described in Unearthed Arcana was "too powerful and too vaguely defined." Another version of the barbarian appeared as a character class in the original Oriental Adventures in 1985.

Barbarians appear in The Complete Fighter's Handbook as a character kit, and later receive full attention as a stand alone class in The Complete Barbarian's Handbook.

Barbarian is one of the base character classes presented in the Player's Handbook. The barbarian is seen as the archetypal warrior who uses brute strength and raw fury to excel in combat, instead of the honed skills of the Fighter or measured strength of the Monk. The Player's Handbook 2 has several barbarian paragon paths, including the Bear Warrior, Fearbringer Thane, Frenzied Berserker and Wildrunner. Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide (2015) included the Battlerager, exclusive to dwarves and allowing them to wear and utilise damaging spiked armor. Xanathar's Guide to Everything (2017) added three more paths: Ancestral Guardian, Storm Herald, and Zealot. The Ancestral Guardian provides supernatural defensive protection to allied creatures, the Storm Herald emits storm themed auras that damage foes and shield allies when the barbarian's Rage feature is activated, and the Zealot empowers their attacks with divine energy and can be easily brought back from death. Tasha's Cauldron of Everything (2020) added two more paths: Path of the Beast and Path of Wild Magic. Barbarians focus on defensive power. They have the highest average hit points of any class, and they gain access to a powerful unarmored defense feature. In combat, their rage feature grants them resilience against common damage types, and can be extended by taking or dealing damage. The Gamer rated the 5th edition barbarian subclass Path Of The Zealot as the 2nd most awesome subclass out of the 32 new character options in Xanathar’s Guide to Everything. Gus Wezerek, for FiveThirtyEight, reported that of the 5th edition "class and race combinations per 100,000 characters that players created on D&D Beyond from" August 15 to September 15, 2017, barbarians were the fourth most created at 9,063 total. Goliath (1,729) were the most common racial combination followed by half orc (1,709) and then human (1,435).