A new MMORPG that went open beta today. http://www.ferentus.com/

What part did you have in making this MMO? I see some imaginary work on the stolen sectors of the HDD that has your style written all over it.

In all seriousness though, since when is Barbarian a freaking RACE?

JediKirby

Now Kirby, don't be a RACE-ist!

Ha ha ha!

Hahah *wipes eyes*

Really thrawn, I must say, you are almost too funny.

Ever since the Nordic peoples of Flasakia mated with Roman women.

err...

In all seriousness though, all these new MMO's are missing the two classes I love most. Either Necromancer >:)

or in this case, a Bard.

How is that any different from blakcs being a race or japanese being a race?

Because waiters and cashiers aren't a race.

From Wikipedia: Barbarian was originally a Greek term applied to any foreigner, one not sharing a recognized culture or degree of polish with the speaker or writer employing the term.

So Barbarians are neither a specific race, nor an occupation.

Exactly. A barbarian is a term for savage powerhouse. It's a race in the sense of what WE call a race, but fantasy races are diferent phenotypes. A barbarian is NOT a different phenotype.

JediKirby

The Roman (Latin) word for foreigner is "barbarus". I'm pretty sure that's where the English word came from. it just meant someone who was from a different, non-roman culture.

There is also an adjective that was pretty close to barbarus, that meant strange ( as in the unknown kind of strange, not the freakshow kind of strange).

So the crazy axe-wielding Germanic and the civilized Arabian aristocrat would both be barbarians.

...But this is all words anyway. Yeah, I think Barbarians should be a class in a game.

Pssht. Berserker are far more superior.

Well, indians are a race, and they are called that because if I remember correctly, the spanish believed they arrived to india, and they called them Indios...

I played this game before. It's called Dark Age of Camelot.