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Exploring the Noble Background

Kevin Victor Rae — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 14:10:36 +0000

In a standard Dungeons and Dragons world, society is stratified by class that is largely determined by blood. In medieval Europe, the nobility was a very tiny portion of the population, and they generally owned the lands that were worked by the peasant class. Sometimes they even owned the peasants. You get to do some fun world-building with this background, creating a Noble lineage to descend from and the social codes of conduct that regulate the nobility. For each background, […]

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The Warlord Class, Part Five

Brandes Stoddard — Thu, 14 Feb 2019 13:00:48 +0000

I’d been thinking this was the week for Unearthed Arcana’s artificer class. It turns out that despite living in Georgia, where it is cool, gray, and rainy, heavy snow in Washington can keep WotC folks out of their offices and thus upturn my plans. Somehow Washington’s typical weather came here, and as a result you, dear reader, get the conclusion of the History of the Warlord a week early. Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four | Part Five 5th […]

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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 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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