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== Races of War ==

=== Foreword: A Brief History of Fighting Men ===

In its origins, D&D was a wargame like Warmachine or Warhammer. You had a field filled with tiny men, and they fought each other with swords and bows. Eventually, someone got really lazy, and wanted to replace a large number of fighting men with heroic fighting men who would be easier to paint because there were much less of them. And that, right there, is the origins of DnD. The smaller number of better Fighting Men would be your "army" and eventually people started playing magical teaparty with their fighting men, and it turned into a roleplaying game. So it isn't surprising that at first you "roleplayed" a small group of heroic fighting men.

When the new classes (such as "Magic User" and eventually "Thief" and "Cleric") were introduced, they were intended to be ''better'' than the Fighting Men. And, well, they totally were. Indeed, players still controlled lots of characters, and it was deemed impractical for more than one or two of those characters to be any good or in any fashion important. So you rolled up stats for each guy, and if you rolled well enough on a guy he could be something other than a Fighting Man, and the rest of your guys were basically just speed bumps whose lot in life was to stand between the monsters and the Magic Users so that the real characters could survive to another day.

Well, that isn't how things work anymore. Now every character is supposed to be individually important and have some background and so on and so forth. [[Summary::No longer are we allowing our Fighting Men to go without a last name unless and until they get to fourth level without being eaten by an owlbear.]] And so we really need Fighting Men to be a lot more interesting and effective than they are in the rules. The basic setup of the game has changed a lot, but Fighters have changed only a little. In a very real way, the Player's Handbook hands us Fighting Men who would be better suited to appear in groups of 3 per player than to stand alone. And really, that has got to stop.

[[File:racesofwar.jpg|right|thumb|450px|The various races of war.]]

=== Contents ===

[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/War in D&D|'''Chapter 1: War in D&D''']]
:[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/War in D&D#Fighting with Honor|Fighting with Honor]]
[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/Playing Unusual Races|'''Chapter 2: Playing Unusual Races''']]
:[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/Playing Unusual Races#Unusual Races|Unusual Races]]
:[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/Playing Unusual Races#Powerful Races|Powerful Races]]
[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/Warriors with Class|'''Chapter 3: Warriors with Class''']]
:[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/Warriors with Class#Base Classes|Base Classes]]
:[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/Warriors with Class#Prestige Classes|Prestige Classes]]
:[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/Warriors with Class#Multiclassing Characters|Multiclassing Characters]]
[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/Warriors with Style|'''Chapter 4: Warriors with Style''']]
:[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/Warriors with Style#Character Backgrounds|Character Backgrounds]]
:[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/Warriors with Style#The Failure of Feats|The Failure of Feats]]
[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/Advanced Combat|'''Chapter 5: Advanced Combat''']]
:[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/Advanced Combat#Base Attack Bonus and Combat Maneuvers|Base Attack Bonus and Combat Maneuvers]]
:[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/Advanced Combat#Attacks of Opportunity|Attacks of Opportunity]]
:[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/Advanced Combat#Bonus Attacks and BAB|Bonus Attacks and BAB]]
:[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/Advanced Combat#Attack Options|Attack Options]]
:[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/Advanced Combat#Special Attack Actions|Special Attack Actions]]
[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/Equipment|'''Chapter 6: Equipment''']]
:[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/Equipment#Weapons|Weapons]]
:[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/Equipment#Armor|Armor]]
[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/Logistics and Dragons|'''Chapter 7: Logistics and Dragons''']]
:[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/Logistics and Dragons#The Demographics of D&D|The Demographics of D&D]]
:[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/Logistics and Dragons#Leaders of Men|Leaders of Men]]
:[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/Logistics and Dragons#Administering your People|Administering your People]]
:[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/Logistics and Dragons#Why We Fight|Why We Fight]]
[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/The Mass Combat Minigame|'''Chapter 8: The Mass Combat Minigame''']] [[File:Row option by noba.jpg|right|thumb|440px|Siege warfare at its finest, by Noba.]]
:[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/The Mass Combat Minigame#The Basics|The Basics]]
:[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/The Mass Combat Minigame#Battles|Battles]]
:[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/The Mass Combat Minigame#Player Characters in the Mass Combat Minigame|Player Characters in the Mass Combat Minigame]]
:[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/The Mass Combat Minigame#Sample Units|Sample Units]]
[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/A World at War|'''Chapter 9: A World at War''']] 
:[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/A World at War#The Stone Ledger: The Dwarves Remember|The Stone Ledger: The Dwarves Remember]]
:[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/A World at War#Gnolls: Too Lazy to Win|Gnolls: Too Lazy to Win]]
:[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/A World at War#Vistas of the Giants: Big and Important Stuff|Vistas of the Giants: Big and Important Stuff]]
:[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/A World at War#The Goblin Empire: Silent Loyalty, Silent Dissent|The Goblin Empire: Silent Loyalty, Silent Dissent]]
:[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/A World at War#Elves: Servants of the High Wizards|Elves: Servants of the High Wizards]]
:[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/A World at War#Warrens of the Gnomes: Guerilla Illusionists|Warrens of the Gnomes: Guerilla Illusionists]]
:[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/A World at War#Orcs: The Endless War|Orcs: The Endless War]]
:[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/A World at War#Borderlands of the Sahuagin: Sore Winners|Borderlands of the Sahuagin: Sore Winners]]
:[[Races of War (3.5e Sourcebook)/A World at War#After the War|After the War]]


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Summary	No longer are we allowing our Fighting Men to go without a last name unless and until they get to fourth level without being eaten by an owlbear. +
Title	Races of War +