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The Warlord Class, Part Four

Brandes Stoddard — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 13:00:13 +0000

I wound up not finding anything I wanted to pair with the 13th Age commander class for today’s article, but at the same time… there’s enough meat to justify deep coverage. If you’ll open your Book of Common Prayer System Reference Document to page, uh, whatever this page is: Commander. There are some superficial similarities to both the bard and the fighter – about like you’d expect, if you’ve read the History of the Warlord up to this point. Part […]

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The Bard Class, Part Six

Brandes Stoddard — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 12:00:28 +0000

Sure, it’s been more than three years since the last article in the History of the Bard, but the tale of each class has grown in the telling and I wanted to do the same for bards, this time for Dungeon World and 13th Age. Those both have SRDs (DW, 13A), so you can follow along in your pew. Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five | Part Six Dungeon World The […]

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The Fighter Class, Part the Thirteenth… Age

Brandes Stoddard — Wed, 19 Sep 2018 12:00:56 +0000

I’ve been waiting for months to use this article title, don’t give me that look. Today I’m diving into 13th Age’s fighter class. Incidentally, I played my second full session of 13th Age at GenCon 2018 and had a great time playing a wizard. It’s a super good game, though its player-contribution style and One Unique Things are a challenge to handle well in a one-shot. Also, here’s a link to the fighter in the game’s SRD, in case you […]

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The Monk Class, Part Six

Brandes Stoddard — Thu, 01 Jun 2017 12:00:35 +0000

As promised in the comments of last week’s article, today I’m covering the monk class in 13th Age, which was released in the 13 True Ways expansion. As a general rule, no two classes in 13th Age have much in common with one another, in terms of structure or gameplay loop. (I’m not intimately familiar with all of the 13th Age classes, so I may be overlooking something here.) As much as anything, though, the monk looks like a tabletop version of the Swordmaster class from Warhammer: Age of Reckoning, thanks to its use of opening, flow, and finisher attacks.

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Domain Rulership, Part Seven

Brandes Stoddard — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 12:30:44 +0000

Previously in this series, I looked at one of the high-water marks for fine detail in domain rulership systems. This week, I’m going to some systems at the opposite extreme: 13th Age and Dungeon World. Not counting, of course, systems that simply have no rules for domain rulership or strongholds. Absence is different from minimalism – and I’m about to split that hair damned fine. Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five | Part Six | Part Seven 13th Age If you’re unfamiliar […]

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The Ranger Class, Part Seven

Brandes Stoddard — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 14:00:57 +0000

This time in History of the Classes, we’re wandering some distance afield of Dungeons & Dragons itself. Dungeon World and 13th Age both look to the dungeon-crawling action of D&D as their spiritual ancestor, though, and they both have a Ranger class. Since they both set out to re-envision D&D, I thought it might be interesting to see how they tackle a class that D&D has had a hard time pinning down. Part One | Part Two | Part Three […]

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The Paladin Class, Part Seven

Brandes Stoddard — Thu, 07 May 2015 11:00:48 +0000

To be honest, when I started this series I never would have guessed that I would need seven articles to talk about one class. On the other hand, D&D has a long and nuanced history, including a lot of offshoots, clones, retroclones, demi-clones… so today I’m tackling three of those not-quite-mainline iterations: the Rules Cyclopedia (OD&D), Pathfinder (3.x, but honestly if you read gaming websites you don’t need me to tell you this), and 13th Age (4e…ish). (Part Eins, Zwei, […]

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