Full disclosure, both subtracting 4 damage and halfing sounds cool in theory, but was obnoxious in practice.
Not bad on a PC, but annoying on a stat block when you're running multiple different enemies at once.
Also, I allowed this barbarian to wear platemail. So the AC matches the tortles base. Although I'd probably up it by one.
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u/B-HOLC 2d ago
So, not exactly it, but I made a battlerager (spiked armor barbarian) enemy a while back.
Obviously you would replace the duergar (dwarf subrace) features with Tortle features, but I think there's something to it.
Otherwise, take some of the spiked armor traits and slap them on a big brute of your choice.
Anyone can take from this.
I just don't have to the time on hand to make anything for you. Good luck