Because in 1982, this happened... hehe
Then like everyone is going to want to play as whatever that is right, complete with the wheel of pain and the riddle of steel! hehe
Primal rage with totemic animals feels pretty cool for a theme. They seem a little more interesting mechanically than the version we got in BG2 that way. I think Eagle is a lot of fun in BG3!
ps. sorry I always forget how jumbo those embedded videos go here on the desktop display. As an aside, when the Barbarians were introduced, background didn't have many mechanics really that I can remember. It was sort of all split down the middle into fantasy Race or Class, so of the two Class probably made more sense I guess. Conan the Barbarian/Fighter/Rogue/whatever was needed pretty much hehe. But now Background does exist and it has some mechanical applications, so it wouldn't surprise to see them revisit this stuff in what will hopefully be called 6th Edition Dungeons & Dragons, someday. I did hear rumblings about removing Shaman and Druid and sidestepping a few others like Witch (mostly in the sourcebooks I'd guess to avoid RL connotations on some stuff) but then not sure how that winds it's way down into the various campaign settings. Druid would be a hard one to ditch now I think. Barbarian seems similarly enshrined in the popular consciousness, based more on like movies and graphic novels, than whatever their historical sources might have been before the Dungeon Dragons got their claws on em hehe.
