dragon magazine Archives - Tribality https://www.tribality.com/tag/dragon-magazine/ D&D / Role Playing Sun, 25 Sep 2022 19:24:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://www.tribality.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-logo-2020-icon@2x-32x32.jpg dragon magazine Archives - Tribality https://www.tribality.com/tag/dragon-magazine/ 32 32 The Barbarian Class, Part One https://www.tribality.com/2022/09/26/the-barbarian-class-part-one/ https://www.tribality.com/2022/09/26/the-barbarian-class-part-one/#respond Mon, 26 Sep 2022 12:00:31 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=33909 Today I realized that it’s been almost three years since my last History of the Classes article. Today I’m starting in on the Barbarian, a class that goes back to an article by E. Gary Gygax in Dragon Magazine #63, in July 1982. As a disclaimer for the whole series: “barbarian” is a culturally loaded word and is a slur from first principles. I’m not defending it. I would be fine with changing the class name to “berserker” so that […]

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