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The Warlord Class, Part Three

Brandes Stoddard — Wed, 30 Jan 2019 13:00:36 +0000

Now we come to the edition in which this class’s name finally matches the title of the series. It’s not the first class to change names edition-by-edition – in fact, of the four earliest classes, only the cleric still goes by its original name! More than most, though, it hasn’t reached what I could call community consensus even now, since there are still “commander,” “noble,” and other class names applied to something close enough to fit into this series. (For […]

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The Warlord Class, Part Two

Brandes Stoddard — Thu, 24 Jan 2019 13:00:32 +0000

Last week, I requisitioned more warlord variants from the general region of 3.x, to pair with Green Ronin Publishing’s The Black Company setting book. Because I still haven’t found my copy of The Wheel of Time Roleplaying Game, and not a lot of drive to go all the way outside of medieval fantasy adventure into pre-/post-/quasi-medieval laser fantasy adventure for Star Wars content. I’m doing The Black Company and Pathfinder’s skald class today. Part One | Part Two The […]

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The Warlord Class, Part One

Brandes Stoddard — Thu, 17 Jan 2019 13:00:37 +0000

This will be one of the shorter class histories, as the warlord only arguably exists in editions that are not 3.5 and 4e. In today’s article, I’m exploring that argument in pre-3.x with the books I have on hand; as with the rest of the History of the Classes, it’s possible I’ve missed something from a Dragon issue or a setting supplement along the way. Image: Bayard sur le pont du Garigliano, by Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux OD&D and AD&D 1e […]

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