
I am trying to come up with a formula to represent the Rage Damage for the 5E Barb, but I'm not sure there is a simple way to do this. The simple one I've come up with is floor(Proficiency/2)+1 but that seems to break at 16th level, and only works for a pure barbarian who doesn't multi class. The other one I've tried is ceil(BarbLevel/8)+1 but that also breaks at 16th level. Is there a method that will work? It's easy enough just to use an attribute on the character for rage damage and leave it at that, but my brain still wants to know if there is a mathematical solution. For reference, Rage damage starts at +2 for 1st level, goes to +3 at 9th level, and to +4 at 16th level. Proficiency is +2 for 1st, +3 for 5th, +4 for 9th, +5 for 13th, and +6 for 17th.