Call a "Barbarian" by a different name, and I'd be fine with a metropolitan interpretation of it. For example, Cubicle 7's "Adventures in Middle-Earth" uses the word "Slayer" to describe their kit-bash Barbarian class. No implications regarding sophistication or tribal background or wood-craftiness or any of the other baggage that burdens the B-word, but it still kept the sense of a fighter who relished battle for the sake of battle. Beorn was the model for the Slayer class, but they could also be conceived as Riders of Rohan, or maybe the axe-wielding troops led by Forlong on the Pelennor Fields. I'm sure there are other words that would do the job just fine.
That said, I'd sooner see something like the original class proposed by Gygax to this weird... thing... that Barbarians have become in D&D.
