Ah, "Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders" – because nothing screams excitement like a 23-minute lecture on how ancient warriors fought for the glory of making your D&D game slightly more historically accurate. 🎲⚔️ If you've ever wondered how to weaponize boredom, look no further! 📚💤
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Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight

This week I want to try something a little different. Rather than taking apart a particular fantasy military system, I thought I might try to lay out a more general sense of how military systems te…

A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Listening to this audiobook on the history of D&D. Interesting stuff here that I've never heard before especially just how little money was in the wargames business in the early days. These guys were making pennies for the first several years. I've just made it to 1976, and expecting things will start to take off for them as they create the White Box Edition.

This audiobook is available for free as part of an audible plus membership.

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i wanna do a thread of my #dndhistory. it's gonna be slow so bare w/ me

i 1st played 4e in 2014 in a homebrew mind fuck horror game inspired by exalted lore. nenna was a tiefling warlock slowly being turned gold from the inside.

here's a new pic i drew of her + art from 2014-15

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“i wanna do a thread of my #dndhistory. it's gonna be slow so bare w/ me i 1st played 4e in 2014 in a homebrew mind fuck horror game inspired by exalted lore. nenna was a tiefling warlock slowly being turned gold from the inside. here's a new pic i drew of her + art from 2014-15”

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next: my water genasi storm cleric, nineve! she's a scrappy tomboy and the sort of person who'd eat a bug on a dare. she's covered in tats but i'm too lazy to draw them lol. i didn't want to change her look TOO much but i made it more practical + drew the layers.
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“next: my water genasi storm cleric, nineve! she's a scrappy tomboy and the sort of person who'd eat a bug on a dare. she's covered in tats but i'm too lazy to draw them lol. i didn't want to change her look TOO much but i made it more practical + drew the layers. #dndhistory”

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next is my very good tiefling bard boy, Harley! Harley is from a declining country noble family; he left home to go to the big city to marry rich and instead found a group of wacky adventuring friends who helped him discover himself.

more: https://twitter.com/mayakern/status/1094823005992243200
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“my tiefling bard harley has been growing his hair out”

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